Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-06DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101121
Sania Dzalbe
{"title":"Disrupted spaces: The impact of economic crisis on everyday life","authors":"Sania Dzalbe","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regional development research has long been shaped by a “male gaze” that privileges economic production, innovation, and growth—while sidelining the forms of care, emotions, maintenance, and everyday labour that supports life in regions (Ormerod, 2023). In this paper, I study how economic crises are lived and felt at the level of everyday life, drawing on the experiences of Danish mink farmers who were forced to cull their animals and shut down their farms during the COVID-19 pandemic. While regional studies typically assess the impacts of economic crisis through macroeconomic indicators and performance metrics, this approach often obscures the emotional, relational, and embodied dimensions of disruption. Building on feminist geographic scholarship and Felski's (2000) theorization of the everyday, I show how crisis unsettles the temporal and spatial rhythms and habits that structure daily life, social roles, and intergenerational ties. The study foregrounds how livelihoods are sustained not only through production, but through informal labor, care work, and embodied knowledge passed down across generations. These everyday practices form subtle infrastructures of resilience—deeply rooted in place, yet vulnerable to state interventions and external shocks. The case of mink farming reveals how crisis reshapes not only what people do, but how they inhabit time, space, and community. By attending to these lived experiences, I offer an understanding of economic crisis—one that centers the silent, often invisible forms of labor and loss that accompany economic transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145005351","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":"Affective geographies of e-scooter travel: Infrastructure, emotions, and adaptive strategies","authors":"Oriol Roig-Costa , Carme Miralles-Guasch , Oriol Marquet","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101124","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite their popularity, limited attention has been given to understanding what captivates e-scooter riders and sustains their interest in the device. While surveys consistently rank e-scooters as a highly satisfying transport mode, such evaluations often reduce complex experiences to a single numeric score, leaving much unexplored. Using a video-recorded ride-along interview methodology, this study examines how infrastructure and spatial configurations influence the affective experiences of 12 e-scooter riders in Barcelona. Our observations reveal that trips encompass a wide range of emotional registers, from positive activation to negative deactivation emotions, often contingent on the quality of the infrastructure. Furthermore, by combining observational material with participants’ interview narratives, we show that the intrinsic characteristics of these devices—lightness, manoeuvrability, and quiet operation—play a key role in how participants define relationships with infrastructure and the situations encountered. Across these accounts, a recurring ideal of frictionless mobility emerged, with riders expressing a strong expectation for uninterrupted travel that shaped both their behaviours and their emotional responses. By uncovering the interplay between cycling infrastructure, emotions, adaptive strategies and the pursuit of frictionless mobility, this paper shed light on the processes underpinning e-scooter satisfaction and underscores the importance of integrating affective dimensions into urban design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221433","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101126
Yuan Ma
{"title":"Dark running: An autoethnography of embodied experience","authors":"Yuan Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the body's response to intentional visual deprivation through the experimental practice of “dark running.” Employing a combined methodology of autoethnography and sensory ethnography, the study explores how non-visual senses are mobilised to reconstruct perceptual systems, coordinate bodily movement, and generate new spatial meanings. To analyse this process, the research proposes an ecological framework of sensory reconfiguration that integrates three interrelated dimensions: embodied difference, affective modulation, and habituation. The findings demonstrate that non-visual perception does not operate as a linear substitute for vision; rather, it emerges as a contingent, context-specific strategy shaped by bodily diversity and affective states. Affect functions as a central regulator of sensory prioritisation and risk assessment, while habituation gradually transforms unfamiliar sensations into embodied and structured forms of meaning. The study argues that sensory practices under visual deprivation critically challenge visual hegemony and expose the generative potential of multisensory coordination. By foregrounding the body's adaptive and creative capacities, this research offers a critical perspective to the fields of sensory studies, embodied phenomenology, and non-visual movement practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145266992","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101127
Hande Eslen-Ziya , Alberta Giorgi
{"title":"Reconfiguring academic feeling rules: Ramifications of digital violence","authors":"Hande Eslen-Ziya , Alberta Giorgi","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study delves into the complex emotional responses of academics subjected to online violence, presenting a comprehensive exploration of this pervasive issue. Leveraging semi-structured individual interviews with eleven academics – from diverse academic levels and institutions in Europe and the United States – who reported experiencing online attacks, our research explains the intricate nature of their emotional experiences. The interviews offered insights into participants' coping strategies, emotional states during and after incidents, and the impact of these emotions on decision-making processes. Integrating sociological work on feeling and expression rules, and emotional work, with perspectives specifically focusing on gender, work, and emotions, our study sheds light on how academics encountered a phase of uncertainty in established conduct and emotional norms while navigating online harassment. This research then contributes a nuanced understanding of the emotional landscapes of academics facing online harassment, shedding light on coping mechanisms, emotional complexities, and ethical considerations inherent in this domain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145320395","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101128
Tran Mai Huong , Mai Phuc Thinh
{"title":"Slow belonging and affective rupture: youth reconfigurations of home in post-urban Vietnam","authors":"Tran Mai Huong , Mai Phuc Thinh","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the phenomenon of young urban dwellers in contemporary Vietnam voluntarily relocating to rural farms as a form of affective life-making rather than economic migration or return. Drawing on narrative ethnographic data from two farm communities in mountainous areas in Gia Lai and Da Lat, the study conceptualizes these urban-to-rural transitions as aspirational reorientations shaped by emotional exhaustion, familial disconnection, and desires for a slower, more meaningful life. Building on de Haas's aspiration–capabilities framework and Antonsich's notion of belonging as becoming, the analysis frames rural relocation as a dynamic process of negotiating aspirations, enacting affective labor, and experimenting with new modes of belonging. Practices such as caregiving, storytelling, and slow daily routines emerge as strategies to reclaim agency and reconfigure selfhood outside normative urban trajectories. These affective strategies reflect broader emotional realignments that underpin youth disengagement from dominant urban futures. The paper contributes to emerging debates on post-growth youth mobility and affective geographies by centering the emotional logics that underlie voluntary rural transitions in the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145324386","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":"People's affective bonds with place and the built environment in the deprived Santiago de Chile","authors":"Cristhian Figueroa-Martínez , Camila Muñoz Navarrete , Sebastián Rodríguez , Roxanna Ríos Peters","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates people's affective bonds with places and explores the role of the built environment in their reproduction. It reports the findings of qualitative research carried out in the “heart” of a neighbourhood of Santiago (Chile) that shares many features with the deprived places of the city but seems to be thriving: a highly commercial street. The findings showed that people's attachment was a complex repertoire of affective bonds fixed to distinctive moments of the trajectory of the place. Moreover, the findings indicated that the built environment had a significant role in the reproduction of people's affective bonds. Pride and affection emerged when the built environment reflected collaboration, contributed positively to the place's reputation, and allowed interactions. Nostalgia, grief, shame, and fear were all tied to the conditions of the public space, which are seen as “symptoms” of social change. Whereas joy, and especially concern, arose in relation to absences and showed that the built environment can be seen as an obstacle to activities that are considered important to continue progressing. The findings show that people are highly satisfied, have opportunities to engage in social interactions, and see in the environment a history that makes them proud.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106861","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":"The home as a site of trauma, resistance and healing in the context of intimate partner violence","authors":"Macarena Trujillo-Cristoffanini , Rachel Pain , Nelson Carroza-Athens , Karen Hoecker-Pérez , Geanina Zagal-Ehrenfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing from feminist and social geography perspectives, this article examines how intimate partner violence (IPV) reshapes the meaning of home for women who have experienced abuse. Arguing that IPV transforms the home in more complex ways than previous studies have shown, the article seeks to bring conceptualization of trauma into closer dialogue with feminist analysis of the space of the home.</div><div>Findings from a qualitative study conducted in Chile reveal two interconnected dynamics. First, IPV survivors describe their homes as spaces of coercion where perpetrators exert surveillance and control, leading to emotional and material consequences. Second, the study highlights a crucial process of spatial and emotional recovery after IPV. Once separated from their aggressors, women redefine their homes as spaces of resistance and healing. Through everyday acts of agency and resistance, they reclaim domestic spaces as places of security and self-determination. Ultimately, while IPV survivors frequently endure precarious living conditions after leaving abusive relationships, their ability to reconstruct a sense of home emerges as a critical strategy for empowerment. These newly built or reclaimed spaces, serve as fortresses of autonomy, allowing women to regain control over their lives and reestablish a sense of belonging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145266993","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101120
Wenfei Li
{"title":"A room of her own: Gender, power, and emotional resistance among rural Chinese girls","authors":"Wenfei Li","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This manuscript explores the intersecting narratives of rural Chinese girls—Juniper, Eucalyptus, and Wattle—through the lens of affect theory, examining how emotions and power intertwine within the spatial and societal contexts of patriarchal norms. Drawing on data from an ethnographic research project on gender construction among rural Chinese women, the study utilizes interviews to interrogate how subjectivities are shaped, fragmented, and negotiated within specific spatial and emotional landscapes.</div><div>By foregrounding affect as a relational force, the manuscript reveals how gendered identities are contested and reconfigured through the emotional dimensions of spatial exclusions, familial hierarchies, and cultural expectations. Juniper's frustrations with restricted mobility and constrained ambitions, Eucalyptus's subtle challenges to gendered authority, and Wattle's navigation of caregiving obligations trace the delicate interplay between systemic marginalization and emergent forms of agency. These intimate narratives illuminate how power operates within everyday spaces, yet resonates with wider societal frameworks. Resistance is depicted not through dramatic gestures but via incremental shifts in relational dynamics and redefinitions of cultural meanings.</div><div>Through its focus on spatial dynamics and the generative capacity of affect to negotiate new possibilities, the study destabilizes monolithic portrayals of identity and power. These stories of affective dissonance and reimagined boundaries highlight the contingency of domination and the fluidity of gender roles. By engaging with the interplay of emotions, space, and societal structures, this manuscript offers a nuanced contribution to understanding gendered experiences in rural Chinese communities, while opening pathways for broader theoretical and applied inquiries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997789","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101122
Steve K.L. Chan , Kevin S.Y. Tan , J.J. Zhang
{"title":"Ritual, emotion, and alterity: Festive entanglements at Bangkok's Khaosan Road during Songkran","authors":"Steve K.L. Chan , Kevin S.Y. Tan , J.J. Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101122","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101122","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Thai Water Festival or <em>Songkran</em> marks the start of the traditional Thai New Year. It is characterized by its water-splashing festivities and is one of the most anticipated annual events for tourists and locals alike. This article examines the globally renowned water-splashing celebration on Khaosan Road, the popular and often controversial backpacker enclave of Bangkok, by adopting an ethnographic approach to explore the emotional entanglements among local street vendors and festivalgoers. Qualitative street interviews were conducted with street vendors and festivalgoers to gain a more nuanced understanding of their experiences and interpretations of <em>Songkran</em> at Khaosan Road. The authors argue that Songkran is a cultural rite of passage that impacts one's perception of time and space, where social norms are relaxed to a point where ritual and disorder co-exist in a liminal fashion. While foreign tourists enjoy the carnival-like atmosphere, some local street vendors often tolerate the disorder to retain memories of <em>Songkran's</em> cultural significance and an opportunity for economic gain. Through the confluence of embodied experiences, emotions, and festivity in the confines of Khaosan Road, <em>Songkran</em> is argued to be transformative for many who partake in it. Subsequent discussions highlight the role of interaction ritual chains in creating a liminal environment in terms of space, sights and sounds, enabling a liberating but temporary experience of alterity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109299","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101129
Soohyung Hur
{"title":"Emotional geopolitics in spaces for solidarity within the Vietnam War redress movement in South Korea","authors":"Soohyung Hur","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Evoking emotions such as empathy has been an effective strategy for social movements to garner public support. Mobilizing emotional geopolitics, this article examines the work emotions are expected to play and indeed do in spaces for transnational solidarity against geopolitical violence. I examine the ‘Butterfly Peace Trips’ which are organized by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, a well-established organization in South Korea seeking redress for Korean survivors of wartime sexual slavery (otherwise known as ‘comfort women’). In these trips, Korean supporters of the ‘comfort women’ movement visit sites in Vietnam that memorialize the Vietnam War and meet the survivors. Interviews with organizers and participants and content analysis results reveal that the Peace Trips are designed to elicit visceral feelings that motivate participants to be involved with the redress movement. Findings also show that even emotions that facilitate solidarity, such as guilt, love, and familiarity, can inadvertently reify geopolitical logics while depoliticizing power structures. Surprisingly, emotions that might not neatly translate into action, such as dread, can productively challenge taken-for-granted discourses in geopolitics. Thus, I argue that emotional experiences do not provide a straightforward path for redressing war violence but help expose the banal logics of war-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145324387","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}