{"title":"The course of love in the migration process: Germans in Israel, and Israelis in Germany","authors":"Dani Kranz","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Love, to a significant other, can be the motivation for migration, inform a migration trajectory, or provide reasons for remaining in situ. Even so, love remains in the undercurrents of migration research. It is not explicitly addressed, even though it underpins migration within the constellation of arranged marriage, or if the pursuit of love is limited by social structures, or law. This paper links the dynamics of agentic love and self-initiated migration by way of German (non-Jewish) and Israeli (Jewish) migrants in Israel and Germany, respectively. It highlights individual trajectories of love migrants, establishing that love within the area of migration studies needs to be conceptualised as multifaceted and complex, at times contradictory, and as part of an affective trajectory of the migration process; and that the ability to follow up on falling in love, and to actualise love, cannot be unhinged from privilege.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139725811","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}
Helene S. Tråsavik , Morten R. Loe , Katrina King , Siddharth Sareen
{"title":"Leisure mobility: Situating emotional geographies of friluftsliv in urban mobility transitions","authors":"Helene S. Tråsavik , Morten R. Loe , Katrina King , Siddharth Sareen","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Norwegian culture, outdoor recreation in nature – such as hiking – is an important activity tied to the production of identity and aspirations of a ‘good life’. ‘Friluftsliv’ (outdoor life) in Norwegian entails a connection to specific places and particular forms of movement between and within these places. This paper examines such mobility practices among residents of Stavanger, a mid-sized coastal city, drawing on 24 interviews with leisure hikers, split between car owners and non-owners. We argue that friluftsliv remains closely connected to the automobility regime, and show the implications for the urban mobility transition, which builds on a strategy of moving past car-centric planning and aims to reduce car dependence. We show how urban mobility planning can benefit from a more nuanced and situated understanding of what mobility <em>means</em>, and how it produces meaning, in a local context. We do so by addressing how people engaged in friluftsliv around Stavanger situate this within their mobility practices, and how these individualised expressions of friluftsliv and mobility reflect upon the urban mobility transition. This article draws on literature from emotional geographies and mobilities research to conceptualise ‘friluftsliv’ as a form of ‘meaningful mobility’ produced through assemblages of emotions, space, and culture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 101003"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458624000045/pdfft?md5=9124d17df4d2d1775fd06d027077073e&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458624000045-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139694011","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}
Simon Campbell , Elisa Floristán Millán , Otto Wolf , Rich Thornton , Sara Riva
{"title":"Collective writing as survival tool: Mechanisms of reflexivity against neoliberal academia","authors":"Simon Campbell , Elisa Floristán Millán , Otto Wolf , Rich Thornton , Sara Riva","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper introduces an innovative method for enhanced researcher reflexivity: the use of synchronous collective writing as a space to collaboratively reflect on experiences of subjectification within the contemporary academy. We explore how, despite its apparent importance to contemporary research, the neoliberalisation of academia leaves little room for meaningful reflexivity. The authors in this paper – ranging from Master’s student to postdoctoral researcher – wrote collaboratively in real-time to organically develop a method of collective reflexivity. Through auto-ethnographic vignettes that act as raw data, and a critical analysis of how we came to experience the events showcased in these vignettes, we analyse how our positionalities shape both our subjection to, and perpetuation of, systems of symbolic violence in neoliberal academic institutions. Through this method, we explore experiences of the contemporary university as patriarchal, intensively marketised, and as a space where the prevalence of ‘weak’ reflexivity has negative impacts on research ethics. We argue that the affect of collaborative writing spaces acts as a resistance against our experiences of loneliness, competition and individualism. We also argue our new approach fosters research that is more responsive to the socio-material conditions to which it attends, and enables a deeper engagement with affect-led methodologies and slow-research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 101007"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139975933","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":"Bordering cinematic experiences: Emotional narratives in the Irish borderland","authors":"Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Kevin Smets","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Memory processes influence the emotional narratives that shape the meanings of borders. However, the field of border studies has traditionally neglected the extent to which ordinary people recreate borders through everyday emotional relations in spaces of social interaction and leisure. This research addresses cinema as a bordering experience in the context of Ireland. The Irish border has been marked by an intense political conflict that informed everyday relations between groups over the years and still has a relevant influence. This situation has impacted not only the emotional significance of the border for inhabitants of border areas but also the processes of </span>othering<span> shaped by memories of periods of violence and animosity. In this study, ethnographic research was conducted in various border towns, which included 44 interviews and three cineforums. Based on the findings, this article details how the interdependence of memories and emotions relating to cinematic experiences is part of everyday bordering processes.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 101001"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139674316","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}
Elizabeth Finlayson Harris , Erin Feinauer Whiting
{"title":"Embodied place in disembodied space: The emotional geography of online classrooms","authors":"Elizabeth Finlayson Harris , Erin Feinauer Whiting","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>While many institutions in recent years have worked to adapt classes to online settings, little attention has been given to the interplay of affect and emotion in online classrooms. This study uses a microethnographic approach to observe two online multicultural education courses over a 7-week term to explore the normative and socially organized practices of affect and emotion. We emphasize the ways that affect and emotion are deeply connected to physical place and online space. Findings suggest the emotional geography of online, synchronous classrooms are characterized by the duality of space and place. This includes tensions around visualizing affect and </span>understanding emotion without shared references and physical places. This research also suggests that teachers and students are managing complex relationships, roles, and pressures in real time as their physical place may call for individuals to act one way while the online space may call for a different set of emotion work and labor.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100988"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139034009","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":"Circulation of home-emotions: The critique of architecture through reality TV","authors":"Jan Smitheram , Akari Nakai Kidd","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reveals how a popular UK reality TV programme <em>Your Home Made Perfect</em> mobilises emotions to challenge conceptualisations of architecture while simultaneously reinforcing regressive ideas of race, class and sexuality. Drawing on our thematic analysis of fourteen episodes of <em>Your Home</em>, the paper shows how architectural entertainment is uniquely positioned through the use of VR technology, to generate and mobilise client emotions, towards critique. This includes the critique of architectural drawings and the power imbalances of architect-client relationships. We trace how ‘happy’ emotions are tied to being able to read architectural visualisations through virtual reality (VR) rather than the ‘sad’ emotion enforced by traditional architectural forms of communication; how positive emotions fostered through care-in-action attach to the architecture and home. By foregrounding clients' emotional responses to the redesign of their homes by architects, the paper reveals architectural entertainment programmes as popular and powerful forms of architectural critique that nonetheless simultaneously reinforce exclusionary social logics that limits owner-occupation for the white middle class. In so doing, this paper contributes to unpacking both the emotional value of architecture and how this complex form of taste-making occurs within popular culture, that is, conveying to people the place of architecture within society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100989"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138448679","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 illusory infrastructure of ink: Machinic bodies and epidermic affects in Singapore","authors":"Orlando Woods","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper advances recent theorisations of the body-as-infrastructure by exploring the premise that there are multiple bodily infrastructures at play at any one time. It focusses on three infrastructural formations – the body, the skin that encases the body, and tattoos as visual inscriptions on the skin – that jostle against each other for representational primacy. The layering of infrastructure-upon-infrastructure leads to understandings of the self that exist in a state of tension with societal norms and the illusions of self-representation. Indeed, it is the intersecting gazes of society and the self that cause these infrastructures to become disaggregated, and representational politics to emerge. I illustrate these ideas through an empirical examination of tattooed bodies in Singapore. Singapore is a socially conservative city-state in which the body is implicated in the capitalist logics of development, and the aesthetic-aspirational logics of the Singaporean family. Tattooed Singaporeans must constantly negotiate these infrastructural overlaps and divergences amidst the growing trend towards more individualistic forms of self-expression and realisation. I argue that whilst the infrastructure of ink might be considered illusory, so too does it help to stabilise the self during times of uncertainty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100991"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138423573","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":"Libraries as felt spaces: Atmospheres, public space and feelings of dis/comfort","authors":"Melike Peterson","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper contributes to debates on urban atmospheres by delving into the atmospheric and emotional qualities of public libraries, highlighting the importance of their atmospheric dimensions as micro urban spaces in shaping city life. Geographic research into public libraries is growing, stressing their importance as key spaces of sociality in fragmented cities. However, less is known regarding their role as vital settings of atmospheric experiences and shared emotions. Situated within a larger project that investigates public libraries as key convivial spaces in stressed urban environments, this paper presents findings from the micro geographies of three public libraries in Bremen, Germany. It finds that atmospheres of welcome and sociality can foster feelings of being-in-place and belonging in and beyond the library, while also creating feelings of discomfort and unease that people negotiate in often careful ways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100986"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175545862300049X/pdfft?md5=b00128192e066a306b9f3877a98fe14c&pid=1-s2.0-S175545862300049X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91963374","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":"Techno-visual enchantments and an ethics of mattering","authors":"Elaine Campbell","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper makes a theoretical contribution to the socio-cultural geographies of enchantment, and introduces a mode of analysis which grapples with enchanted life as performative enfoldings of matter and meaning which have politico-ethical form, content, communicability, and power. The paper critically interrogates current theorisations of enchantment to expose the ontological, epistemological and ethical fragilities which lie at the heart of the concept, and asks whether enchantment may amount to more than an ephemeral, momentary, and non-representational experience. This prepares the ground for rethinking enchantment through a more inclusive and inventive frame of reference, one which can take stock of different forms of enchantment, specifically those made possible by the innovations of 21st century visualising technologies. <em>Via</em> Karen Barad's new materialist theory of agential realism, and her exposition of an ethics of mattering, the paper goes on to explore the techno-visual enchantments of drone technologies, tracing their ethical effects through dynamic and performative relations of enactment, intra-action, diffraction and difference.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100987"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458623000506/pdfft?md5=92c5ffd9a6c208a9ff7b80ab15895477&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458623000506-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92024571","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":"Navigating the emotion-embodiment-language nexus in international research: Stories from a foreign researcher and local interpreter","authors":"Josie Wittmer , Mubina Qureshi","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Feminist researchers engage reflexively with questions of how power operates through intersubjective processes like building rapport, obtaining consent, and being accountable in the ‘field.’ But how do researchers build these connections across embodied and linguistic differences in interlingual research involving local interpretation? In this paper, we delve into our experiences as a foreign researcher and a local interpreter conducting interviews and group discussions with low-income women waste workers in India. We focus on our co-navigations of positionality and power with a focus on language, emotion, and embodiment in connecting with participants and reflect on how interpretation and translation processes can mediate, complicate, and enrich connection-building. We argue that emotional, embodied, and linguistic challenges and opportunities are not uniformly experienced between differently positioned team members and require space to grapple with divergent experiences, understandings, and outcomes that emerge across this nexus. We detail three research encounters, analyzing the nuances of positionality in our divergent roles; our navigations of care and refusal manifesting across the triple subjectivity of encounters; and our strategies for working across languages, embodiment, and emotion in the colonial past-present. The paper contributes to feminist, anti-colonial methodologies by providing insights into our experiences of connection-building in the ‘field’ and revealing the ‘scaffolding’ work and relations which support our processes and pursuits of ethnographic research, translation, and accountability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100990"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458623000531/pdfft?md5=e557502b1f7e669e0df6e839a4052874&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458623000531-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138396761","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}