{"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}
Gonzalo Lizarralde , Steffen Lajoie , Kevin Gould , Claudio Araneda , Ilian Cruz-Panesso , Julia Helena Diaz , Elsa Monsalve , Roberto Burdiles , Benjamin Herazo , Holmes Páez , Arturo Valladares , Lisa Bornstein , Andrés Olivera , Gonzalo Gonzalez , Oswaldo López , Adriana López
{"title":"Beyond fear: The role of emotions in disaster risk reduction in the face of climate change","authors":"Gonzalo Lizarralde , Steffen Lajoie , Kevin Gould , Claudio Araneda , Ilian Cruz-Panesso , Julia Helena Diaz , Elsa Monsalve , Roberto Burdiles , Benjamin Herazo , Holmes Páez , Arturo Valladares , Lisa Bornstein , Andrés Olivera , Gonzalo Gonzalez , Oswaldo López , Adriana López","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Most studies and policy in disaster risk reduction have focused on either what people lack (their vulnerability or their capacities to deal with risk (their resilience). Few studies and decision-making processes have focused on the role of emotions in informal urban settings. However, the results of a four-year study including interviews, three international workshops, and 24 community-led initiatives of risk reduction in Cuba, Colombia, and Chile, shows that emotions play a fundamental role in the design and planning of grassroots initiatives. Anxiety, pride, anger, uncertainty, and awe are crucial in risk-related agency. These emotions help building leadership and engagement and are decisive in establishing empathy, trust, and legitimacy—all which constitute the basis for change towards social and environmental justice. Phenomenology can help address connections between emotions, agency, and space. To succeed, risk response frameworks must recognize the interplay between emotions, behaviors, and politics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101054"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095478","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":"Affective dynamics of belonging in a regenerated Dublin suburb","authors":"Alina Bezlaj","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article is concerned with the affective dynamics of belonging in a working-class Dublin suburb called Ballymun. At the turn of the millennium, Ballymun underwent over a decade-long process of regeneration that thoroughly transformed it physically and socially. On the basis of findings from participatory observation and interviews conducted with residents, I argue that class and residential longevity engender qualitatively different affective bonds between people and place, create different senses of belonging, orient these affective bonds of belonging to a different place (spatiotemporality), and contribute to different practices of appropriating places. I explore belonging as experienced and performed by long-term (pre-regeneration) working-class residents of the neighbourhood and compare it to that of middle-class newcomers, who moved to the suburb during or after regeneration. Through the performance of belonging, I also explore the role of affectivity in communal boundary drawing, inclusions and exclusions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095479","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}
Stefanie Plage , Robert Perrier , Andrea Bubenik , Cameron Parsell , Rose-Marie Stambe
{"title":"Inside out – Views on and from home by people with experience of homelessness","authors":"Stefanie Plage , Robert Perrier , Andrea Bubenik , Cameron Parsell , Rose-Marie Stambe","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This visual essay explores what home means from the perspective of people who have experienced homelessness. Through their photography, we trace the dynamic interplay of inside and outside, presence and absence, materiality and immateriality in the multilayered meaning-making around home. Part of on an ethnographic project undertaken in 2022 in Southeast Queensland, 14 participants who had experienced homelessness were asked to take photographs and discuss them during a follow-up interview. The captioned photographs mediate our gaze on and from home, revealing the affordances of home as a material and immaterial construct. In the participants' visual storytelling we move across different forms of accommodation, making tangible the sense of housing instability and uncertainty they face in their daily lives. Based on the premise that the experience of being made home-<em>less</em> significantly and enduringly inflects one's relationship with home, their photography provides unique and valuable insights into what home means within the contemporary socio-historical context marked by escalating housing and cost of living crises. In doing so, we position this visual essay within housing activism and scholarship approaching home in terms of place and relational practice, rather than an asset, foregrounding how these understandings coalesce in home as a feeling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101055"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702828","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":"Affective encounters and urban heritage: Unpacking the interface/city assemblages of online Hanfu performances","authors":"Chu Xu, Ajay Bailey","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper engages with the discussions on affective platforms and digital urban scholarships by drawing on digital mundane practices and networked affect theory. In urban China, a growing trend involves visitors wearing Hanfu (a traditional Han Chinese clothing style) in heritage spaces and presenting themselves distinctively online. By employing multiple qualitative media methods on Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media platform, we demonstrate how Hanfu performances involve certain interface/city assemblages of urban heritage spaces, through which digital, imaginary, and physical elements relationally converge. We argue that affect and emotion serve as vital mechanisms for mixing these multiple assemblages, facilitating their circulation and reproduction on social media platform that heavily relies on the algorithms of feedback loops. This specific affective-algorithmic mechanism enables individuals to collectively generate new expressions of and form attachments to heritage spaces, embedded within their mundane practices as they engage with collective memories, histories, heritage materiality, and urban public life. Moving beyond merely examining the digital-urban spectacle as an outcome of social media fashioning of urban spaces, this paper extends our understanding of digital-urban space-making by illuminating the ongoing process of (re)production and dissemination of the networked affect of urban space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101053"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142554780","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":"Informality as global capitalism's unconscious","authors":"Pieter de Vries , Ilan Kapoor","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on the burgeoning field of Global Libidinal Economy, this article argues that informality (i.e., the informal economy) is global capitalism's unconscious, both hiding and revealing the latter's instability and shadowy, indeed “dirty” if not “dangerous,” underside. On the basis of a fieldwork-based case study in Recife, Brazil, we bring out informality's exploitative dimensions—unspoken yet crucial to the functioning of capitalist markets; as well as its spontaneous and creative sides, which like the “return of the repressed,” act as disturbance and potential threat to these markets. Conceptualizing informality in this (psychoanalytic) way helps foreground the antagonisms upon which capitalism is founded, forebodingly betraying themselves despite attempts to suppress and gentrify them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101050"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535757","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":"‘Home is just a feeling’: Essentialist and anti-essentialist views on home among Ukrainian war refugees","authors":"Anna Wnuk, Julia Góralska","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The notion of home, understood as a distinct and meaningful place is frequently explored in migration studies. It emerges as an especially significant point of reference, though it is often marked by ambiguity and ambivalence, especially in the narratives of war refugees. This article examines how Ukrainian refugees in Poland define and experience home, exploring the evolving meanings of home in the context of displacement and resettlement. We conducted semi-structured interviews with thirteen refugees and forced migrants who left Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24th, 2022. Using a theoretical framework of essentialist and constructivist (anti-essentialist) notions of place, we identified three major themes in the way refugees perceive home. The first theme highlights attachment to home, where refugees express feelings of security, stability, and rootedness. The second reveals a profound sense of ‘non-home’, where home is lost or unattainable. The third theme explores how refugees attempt to reconcile a fixed sense of home with their experiences of mobility, reshaping home through multiple, meaningful sites. By integrating these theoretical perspectives this study offers a nuanced understanding of how displacement and migration reshape the concept of home for refugees.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101052"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535756","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":"Sweat speaks: Stories of embodiment, emotion, and erasure on a heating planet","authors":"Hannah Della Bosca","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sweat permeates our human lives, yet it is a bodily reality whose functions and meanings we are often conditioned to avoid, minimise, or hide. In taking sweat as its lens of analysis, this work reasserts the significance of a transboundary agent whose narrative interpretations are frequently sanitised and simplified. Here, sweat itself is recognised as a vital storyteller, emerging through tangible bodily choreographies of effort and exertion, emotion, social and cultural identity, and a warming planet. This contribution is situated at the broad intersection of sensory studies and feminist environmental humanities, and works to demonstrate sweat's political and theoretical utility in connecting everyday embodied experiences with the systemic drivers of social and ecological injustices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101051"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536194","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}