{"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}
{"title":"Racism (un)spoken: Exclusion and discrimination in emotional narrations of young migrants in Berlin","authors":"Magdalena Nowicka , Katarzyna Wojnicka","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Racism operates though material discrimination and through emotions. Racialised subjects feel their location in hierarchical social space, and spatial arrangements can facilitate racial perceptual segregation. The first aim of this article is to discuss which emotions are involved in young people's narrations about their experiences and exposure to racism in Berlin, Germany. Second, it engages with how emotions impact articulations of racism and empathy for those who are racially discriminated against. Out of a larger data corpus consisting of narrative interviews, individual and group, with young people with migration history and various experience of racism, we present three cases which offer us new possibilities to disturb the existing theories of racism and emotions. We believe that the German case is instructive because of the complexity of migrantisation and racialisation that is different to the well-studies American and British contexts. We address the contextual factors in which emotions emerge and are articulated. We consider how our research participants' different socio-spatial positionalities – mobile, local and betwixt - mould their emotional engagements with racism. We also thematise how these positionalities shift in time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100985"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863590","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":"Albanian immigrant beliefs about emotion, language, and social identity: Examining the workplace nuances of upward social mobility","authors":"Heriberto Godina , Oliana Alikaj-Fierro","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study seeks to advance scientific discussion about language, emotion, and migration through two in-depth portrayals of adult Albanian immigrants who self-reported personal beliefs about emotions in their language usage, social identity, and motivation for workplace success. Data-collection implemented a qualitative case-study approach with multiple interviews and observations. Participants revealed how certain emotions held compelling connections to their core beliefs about language usage in the workplace setting. The perceptions about second-language (L2) usage and emotion revealed key features about personal identity. Participants had frustrations about their transnational cultural adjustments and viewed the pursuit of English fluency as essential for their career success. Results revealed how interpersonal communication in the workplace involved more anxiety than any other setting. Some of these incongruencies might seem innocuous to native-language English speakers, such as how misinterpreting jokes in the English-speaking workplace were revealed to be a source of frustration for the L2 speakers. Participants feared being informally evaluated for their oral English skills, and purposely avoided using their native Albanian language because they believed such language usage could be detrimental for their employment. This study should be of interest to anyone seeking to examine emotional geographies within L2 processes for immigrant populations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100984"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863591","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":"Atmosphere and inspiration in the Soviet Gulag","authors":"Jeffrey Stepnisky","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100983","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In this essay I use Peter Sloterdijk's and Gernot Böhme's theories of atmosphere to describe the production of atmospheres in the Soviet Gulag. I rely on eight memoirs written by Gulag prisoners. I develop the idea that atmospheres are formed out of co-inspirational practices between persons and the objects in their world. The Gulag is an extreme social situation in which these inspirational practices are manipulated and/or destroyed. Nevertheless, I claim that prisoners find opportunities to develop atmospheres that shelter, protect, and uplift them. I describe the practices through which these atmospheres are created and emphasize their relationship to an inspirational approach to </span>social psychological theories of selfhood and social life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100983"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863592","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":"More-than-human practices of making and unmaking the smart home: A socioemotional investigation","authors":"Chen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the complex and dynamic practices in the smart home and how these practices are socially and emotionally engaged in daily encounters with different human and non-human actors, drawing on a 14-month autoethnography. Based on the investigation of my own experiences of setting up, using and getting rid of smart home technologies, this article develops a more-than-human understanding of the time-space of home. It concentrates on the significant role of the dynamic human-technology assemblage in the process of making and unmaking smart home and the social and emotional negotiations between the operation of smart home technologies, the doings of household relationship, and the management of the physical, virtual, and imaginative home. These findings may open new dialogues on the dynamic spatiotemporalities of the digital mundane. Ultimately, this research suggests future studies to develop a more embodied and emotional way and take the social and material links and transactions between home and the broader digital world to unravel how digital technologies are normalised and integrated into our day-to-day experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100982"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863593","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":"Introducing a more-than-quantitative approach to explore emerging structures of feeling in the everyday","authors":"Katy Bennett, Stefano De Sabbata","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100965"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863594","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}