Rebecca Whittle, Liz Brewster, Will Medd, Hilary Simmons, Rob Young, Edith Graham
{"title":"Corrigendum to “The ‘present-tense’ experience of failure in the university: Reflections from an action research project” [Emot. Space Soc. 37 (2020) 100719]","authors":"Rebecca Whittle, Liz Brewster, Will Medd, Hilary Simmons, Rob Young, Edith Graham","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101084"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safe behind the gate: Safety perceptions of residents in barrios cerrados in La Plata","authors":"Fleur Hessing","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To understand the dynamics of the gated community, in this article, conceptions of fear in relation to space are being studied through the experience of residents in gated communities in La Plata, Argentina. In-depth interviews with six participants and observations in different <em>barrios cerrados</em> allowed for an understanding of the use of space and its impact on fear of crime and other safety perceptions. The stories showed how enclosed communities are perceived by the residents as the only safe form of living, both physically and socially, with the outsider being dangerous by default. Also, it established the means used in the space to nurse these feelings of insecurity, such as cameras, guards and fences. The narratives helped understand how self-governance contributes to a feeling of security by being in control of the use of space. My findings showed how gated communities not only contribute to more segregation between inside and outside but also emphasize and reinforce the idea of the outside being an insecure space, and as a justification for emotions such as fear and the need to be in control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101088"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143877115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional scale jumping: How emotional responses to food insecurity change private and public spaces in Havana, Cuba","authors":"Vikki Oriane de Jong , Federica Bono","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global food crises force more people into food insecurity. While numerous studies offer valuable insights into household consumption, food access, and adaptive strategies, they often overlook how food insecurity is an inherently emotional experience, deeply connected to—and continuously interacting with—broader sociopolitical dynamics. Consequently, scholars pay insufficient attention to how emotional responses to food insecurity reshape space, place, and drive sociopolitical change. Drawing on insights from emotional geography, this paper explores the emotional dimension of food insecurity, recognizing how it is shaped by sociocultural relations, perceptions of inequality, and narratives of injustice. Focusing on the food crisis in Havana, Cuba, this study takes an ethnographic approach to reveal that emotional responses to food insecurity impact (1) individual and social experiences of food consumption, (2) perceptions, experiences, and use of public space, (3) individual and collective perceptions of identity, and (4) power dynamics and perceived government legitimacy. This leads to significant sociopolitical and spatial changes at the household, urban, and national levels. We conclude that an emotional lens to food insecurity provides essential insights into how personal, yet socially shaped, emotions spill over from the household level to “jumping scales” and catalyzing broader sociopolitical change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101089"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘An outpouring of love’: A psychosocial analysis of the NHS ‘Big Tea’ fundraising appeal","authors":"Christian Möller","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article reports on a case study of charitable fundraising for the UK National Health Service (NHS) and examines its role in managing emotions and shaping our relationship with state-funded health services. Twitter data, images and fundraising materials were collected under the #NHSBigTea hashtag, which coordinates and celebrates annual fundraising events by NHS charities across the UK. Targeting existing affective attachments to ‘our NHS’, nationalistic rhetoric and the imperative to ‘give something back’ after Covid are shown to be part of wider feeling rules which create the NHS as an idealised object requiring performative displays of gratitude and positive affect. Discursive positioning of fundraisers and NHS staff as heroes becomes problematic in an affective economy where national calls to “be there” and show our love for the NHS set unrealistic demands and obscure existing deficits and existential threats to the NHS. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives, the article shows how, in times of crisis, displays of gratitude, love and positivity may defend against ambiguous feelings and intense fears of losing the NHS. These difficult emotions and anxieties must be acknowledged to avoid dangerous idealisations and allow a different relationship based not on gratitude but emotional and material investment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101086"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of corporate public restrooms as therapeutic landscapes","authors":"Yujie Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how corporate public restrooms, often regarded as mundane, serve as critical therapeutic landscapes within the high-pressure environment of China's real estate sector. Through ethnographic research at S Corporation, it reveals how these restrooms become gendered, political, and relational spaces where emotional release, solidarity, and subtle resistance unfold. For men, restrooms offer a space to momentarily shed and quietly reaffirm corporate masculinity, while for women, they become sanctuaries of shared vulnerability and mutual support. Politically, these spaces provide informal arenas for navigating workplace power dynamics and hierarchies away from official scrutiny. Beyond their functional design, these restrooms enable moments of collective strength and resistance, reflecting broader societal issues around gender expectations, emotional labor, and the strains of corporate life. In highlighting how such ordinary spaces shape emotional experiences and social relations, the study highlights the potential for solidarity and resistance within even the most controlled environments, revealing the deeper social challenges embedded in everyday emotional landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101079"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland
{"title":"Narrators of submersive affective atmospheres: Analysing oceanic representations through narratives of sound","authors":"Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Art-science installations with a focus on marine research are a critical way that the ocean is experienced by various publics beyond the physical boundaries of the sea. Like ocean themed cinema, documentaries, music, photo exhibitions, aquariums, museums and so on they contribute to how oceans are imagined and experienced without the need to get wet. Although they can never quite replicate the ocean, they offer touching points for embodied engagement with alternative imaginaries of the sea. <em>Mirrors</em> is a sound installation that follows the acoustic journey of the Minke Whale as it travels from Antarctica to the coast of Namibia, which debuted in 2023 as part of an international marine biodiversity symposium. Drawing from the development and delivery of <em>Mirrors,</em> this paper contends that sound installations are one way that audiences can know the ocean as they uniquely capture underwater worlds and anthropogenic impacts on marine life. This paper argues that key to the success of this is being able to create narratives that can inspire oceanic imaginations through what is introduced for the first time in this paper as ‘submersive affective atmospheres’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachael Hood , Martina Angela Caretta , Christina Digiulio , Lora Snyder
{"title":"Disrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked Appalachia","authors":"Rachael Hood , Martina Angela Caretta , Christina Digiulio , Lora Snyder","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To date, there has been limited analysis at the intersection of extractive industry and emotional geography. Our research addresses this intersection by investigating how gas extraction, production, and distribution have disrupted residents’ place attachment, and how this disruption is emotionally embodied. This research relies on 24 interviews and 2 workshops conducted in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in the summer of 2021. This tri-state region, sitting on the Marcellus shale, has witnessed a significant industrial buildout in the form of pipelines and hydraulic fracturing in the last fifteen years. This buildout is compounded by social vulnerability and environmental degradation resulting from the historical extractivism that has shaped Appalachia. From the results of this research, we argue that gas extraction, production, and distribution are not only a physical construction but also a system of unfairness and marginalization that materializes in emotional, embodied harms to residents. This paper illuminates the emotional dimensions of energy extractivism, advancing a synthesis of energy and emotional geographies which improves our understanding of how energy systems interact with lived experiences, an essential but overlooked aspect of energy extraction and production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101065"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming to and being with affect: On the space between theory, method, and the researcher","authors":"Julia Alegre Mouslim , Lea Baro , Eline de Jong","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the intricate relationship between affect theory and qualitative research methodology. Departing from the authors' experiences as doctoral researchers encountering and engaging with affect, the article explores how different trajectories with affect contribute to shaping research processes and outcomes. Rooted in feminist scholarship, the paper adopts a pragmatic approach to affect, delving into practical applications of affect in qualitative research. Drawing on diverse methodological approaches, it showcases how affect can be empirically investigated. Through three case studies, discussing activist encounters, feelings of representation in institutional contexts, and an attentiveness to feelings and emotions in organisational ethnography, the paper illuminates affect's permeation of research design, data collection, and analysis in different ways. Ultimately, the article aims to demystify affect's use in research, advocating for its productive engagement and transformative capacity. By foregrounding affect as both a theoretical lens and a practical tool, the article offers insights into understanding lived experiences, social worlds, and power relations, fostering a relational form of knowledge production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good food and the politics of bad Feeling:Shameful diets and their inequitable opportunities and outcomes","authors":"Michael Carolan","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leveraging data from face-to-face interviews, self-narratives, and diaries that record household procurement habits, this paper examines shame in the context of discourses and practices that are said to support “eating well.” Building off feminist affect theory and the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, shame is conceptualized as having politics, which is to say, these intensities are presented as doing different things depending on the positionalities of the social bodies experiencing them. This study is important because it highlights shame as having both productive and destructive tendencies, depending on who is feeling it. It also highlights risks associated with dominant discourses and practices directed at “good” food. This analysis provides critical insight if we hope to build food systems that promote notions of health and well-being that are attuned to justice, equity, and inclusivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101064"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño , Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis , Sergio Cáceres Becerra
{"title":"Emerging emotions in the face of the necropower of organized crime: Between domination and agency","authors":"Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño , Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis , Sergio Cáceres Becerra","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study is based on a collaborative autoethnographic approach in a city in the state of Tamaulipas, located on the northern border of Mexico, to explore the emotions generated by the necropower exercised by organized crime to control and dominate territories and naturalize their violent practices. Fear is the predominant emotion, it influences the configuration of spaces as dangerous, it limits spatial practices and sociality, allowing the survival of the inhabitants, but also facilitating domination. Anger and sadness are emotions that open possibilities of agency, since they promote the recognition of vulnerability and exhaustion, the denunciation of crimes, political protest, and an empathetic response to victims. However, when there is insufficient protection from the State, threatened citizens prioritize individual management of protection and discomfort, given the risk of retaliation due to collective mobilization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101066"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}