{"title":"Intimate revolutions: the relationship between spatial form and personal change in the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Laura McGrath , Marlee Bower , Amarina Donohoe-Bales , Kylie Valentine , Peta Wolifson , Erin Fearn-Smith , Caitlin Buckle , Julia Macauley","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The predominant spatial form of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a mass confinement of people to domestic space and major restrictions to mobility and access to public space. This spatial change has personal implications; the material contexts in which people live are part of what shapes the possible range of experiences, relationships and selves to which a person has access. In this article we draw on mapping interviews conducted with a community sample of 46 Australians during 2021 and 2022, highlighting experiences of change: new ways of thinking, being or relating which participants developed in lockdown or intended to take up in the future. These changes were orientated towards similar concerns, wanting to sustain a greater focus on relationships, creativity and meaningful activity beyond lockdown. We note that these concerns reflect the symbolism and activities associated with domestic space (relationality, care, reproduction, the private self), indicating that these new futures and ways of being were crafted from the ingredients available in the spacetime of the pandemic. Implications for literatures on change emerging from crisis are discussed, arguing for greater attention to be paid to the spatial form of crisis situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481421","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":"","authors":"Tung-Duong Hoang , Manh-Tung Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223640","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":"","authors":"Hélder Silva Lopes","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194570","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101082
Thomas A. Lowe
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Nostalgia and mobility perceptions of informal dementia carers” [Emotion, Space Soc. 53, (2024) 101028]","authors":"Thomas A. Lowe","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101082"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170383","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101085
Li Wen, Liu Peng
{"title":"Encountering graffiti and street art under light and air conditions: Exploring the atmospheric qualities of a place","authors":"Li Wen, Liu Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research paper explores the atmospheric qualities of urban spaces that are influenced by the presence of graffiti and street art. The study has expanded the literature review to provide a stronger theoretical foundation for examining atmospheres within the urban context, with a particular focus on the intersection of graffiti, street art, and the broader sensory experience of a location. Drawing on non-representational sensory ethnographic methods, the research analyses how the interplay of light, air, and the presence of graffiti/street art shapes the experience and perception of a place. Through on-site observation, interviews, and photographic documentation, the paper explores how these transient, environmental factors contribute to a sense of atmosphere and their role in cultivating a place-making experience for users of the space. The finding suggests that the atmospheric conditions of a place, including its sensory qualities, can significantly impact how people perceive and engage with graffiti and street art, evoking a sense of nostalgia, belonging, and attachment to the urban environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101085"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143681010","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101091
Maria Thulemark
{"title":"The value of being unseen – Experiencing hidden elements of ‘invisible’ work","authors":"Maria Thulemark","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101091"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828929","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-18DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101087
Zorica Siročić
{"title":"Anger in festivals: Contradiction in terms or a desirable part of the program?","authors":"Zorica Siročić","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Festivals, as their etymology suggests, are festive, celebratory occasions. They are also opportunities to have fun and forget the worries of the day. In such an understanding, aggression, anger, fear, frustration, and other negative emotions and attitudes are associated with attendee dissatisfaction and, as such, are hopefully exceptional conditions to be avoided through skilful event management. This paper challenges our conventional wisdom about festivals by bringing up the example of festivals of gender dissent (women's, feminist, LGBTQ+), which deliberately allocate parts of the program for the expression of anger and fear, to name a few of such negative emotions, through different art performances, workshops and dance. In particular, the paper examines whether and how the liminality of festivals i.e. their temporal and spatial exceptionalism allows for the disruption of culturally conditioned and gendered patterns of emotional expression and experience. In order to do so, the paper situates personal observations and interviews with festival organizers and performers within a broader framework of literature on emotions in critical event studies and anger and gender (dissent).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101087"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843815","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101095
Fran Trento, Noora Pyyry, Raine Aiava, Lauri Jäntti
{"title":"Creating safer spaces in higher education: failure and discomfort in spacing for difference","authors":"Fran Trento, Noora Pyyry, Raine Aiava, Lauri Jäntti","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article critically engages with the concept of safer spaces within higher education institutions, which serve as prime examples of young people's institutional spaces. We build the argument by using John Horton and Peter Kraftl's (2006) idea of space as a verb and discuss how failure may be a catalyst for <em>spacing</em> processes. While acknowledging and valuing recent steps towards the creation of institutionalized safer spaces, we question the sufficiency of representational measures and worry about tokenization in safer space guidelines. We argue that safer spaces must be built with an atmosphere of openness, which often exceeds the limits of representational disclosures. We, therefore, probe failure and discomfort as affectual states that may have the potential to create fractures in taken-for-granted ways of thinking/being. Mobilizing Ben Anderson's (2009) concept of affective atmosphere, we emphasize the importance of <em>hesitation</em> and <em>experimentation</em> in opening space for <em>difference.</em> In particular, we focus on the neurodiversity spectrum, understood as a non-fixed continuum (Yergeau, 2018) by exploring situations of vulnerability and discomfort, often linked to failure, through two vignettes: an experience of a neurodivergent academic in the university cafeteria and a classroom experiment of ‘thinking under the table’ with young students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948220","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101079
Yujie Zhang
{"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":"2025-05-01","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}
Emotion Space and SocietyPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-02DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067
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":"2025-05-01","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}