{"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}
{"title":"Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad","authors":"Tim Edensor, Steve Millington, Chloe Steadman","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Much geographical literature concerning home focuses on its emotional potency. This paper explores how football supporters consider their club's stadium as a ‘home’. However, this sense of homeliness can evaporate when clubs relocate to new stadia, rupturing matchday routines and feelings of belonging. This is exemplified by the relocation of Manchester City Football Club from their former home ground Maine Road to the Etihad Stadium in 2003, leaving many longstanding supporters disoriented and bereft. We explore how in response, the club have sought to make the Etihad feel more homely through three key approaches: foregrounding continuities through generating nostalgia and heritage, acknowledging fan cultures and promoting interactivity. More broadly, the paper contributes to expansive and relational understandings of home, demonstrating how feelings of homeliness can extend beyond a single site as football fans move through the spaces surrounding a football stadium.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100971"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863595","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}
Rebecca Blackwell, Elizabeth Aranda, Alessandra Rosa
{"title":"“We always remember the Island”: Puerto Rican climate migrants’ emotional meanings of home","authors":"Rebecca Blackwell, Elizabeth Aranda, Alessandra Rosa","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To contribute to the development of a sociology of home, in this article, we integrate migration, emotion, and place and space theories to study how the notion of home interacts with the experience of displacement. Through 54 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Puerto Rican climate migrants who fled Puerto Rico for the continental US after Hurricane Maria struck the archipelago in 2017, we asked this group about their experiences of the disaster and relocation. These interviews collected stories filled with place-making practices, definitions of identity, and descriptions of emotion work. The narrative analysis of these stories allowed us to gain knowledge about our participants’ meaning-making processes and emotions around simultaneously losing their sense of home and striving to (re)constitute it in a new space. The stories also showed the impact of the conditions of displacement on a population that is not commonly associated with forced migration but that is increasingly threatened by the impact of climate change. Our findings showed that the intangible emotional losses of displacement are as important for the adaptation process of climate migrants as material losses can be.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100974"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863598","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":"“It can be very easy to feel uncomfortable”: Socio-spatial constructions of campus safety among university students and administrators","authors":"Treena Orchard","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Research about campus safety focuses primarily on identifying problematic student behaviours (i.e., toxic partying, sexual violence) and institutional infrastructure (i.e., lighting, emergency services), to the exclusion of how safety, as an idea and embodied experience, is constructed. Using qualitive interview data from a </span>participatory action research study conducted at Western University, this article uses a critical feminist lens to examine how undergraduate students (n = 23) and administrators (n = 7) spoke about campus safety as well as spatial vulnerability. Study participants shed compelling light on the “uncomfortable” feelings that pervade their movement across and within the university campus. Often presumed to be a spatially distinct place of privilege for all who work and attend classes within its reach, this is not always the case. Participants experienced this space as one of precarious privilege that reflects, reproduces, and sometimes protects hegemonic systems of white, male, cis-gender institutional power. This glimpse into the emotional geography of the campus sheds new light on safety culture and allied </span>feminist research, specifically that which relates to the interplay between contested notions of safety as well as spatial vulnerability for two stakeholder communities in the neoliberal university.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100975"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863599","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 entrainment: Generating and incorporating the “rollercoaster” experience of a group yoga class","authors":"Alexandra Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100972","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article investigates the cultivation and incorporation of transpersonal affect through an analysis of classes at an Amsterdam yoga studio. With their combination of aerobic exercises, heightened atmosphere, and teachings of self-transformation, Tattva Yoga classes are renowned as a “rollercoaster” experience. This article analyses a single Tattva Yoga class, delineating how the rollercoaster arises from the orchestration of space and moving bodies, generating fluctuating intensities which take up and are taken up by practitioners. To capture this process, the article develops the concept of affective entrainment, defined as the synchronisation of oscillations of intensity and release. In conceptualising the means by which Tattva Yoga classes modulate transpersonal affect, affective entrainment both attends to the unqualified and impersonal character of affect and also affirms that it is nonetheless cultivated via techniques and pedagogies specific to the context of its emergence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100972"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863596","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 forests are dirty”: Effects of climate and social change on landscape and well-being in the Italian Alps","authors":"Sarah H. Whitaker","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the course of the last several decades, climate and social changes have fundamentally altered Alpine environments, landscapes, and weather patterns. While environmental changes are well-documented by natural science studies, the human dimensions of change remain understudied. Existing in-depth studies of the impact of climate and environmental changes on emotional well-being have revealed cross-cultural similarities in responses to change, but studies of the impact of such changes on the well-being of residents of the European Alps are needed. Through interviews, participant observation, and a questionnaire, the study identified two pathways through which changes to Alpine environments are affecting the well-being of mountain residents in the Lombardy region of the Italian Alps. The landscape and ecosystem changes caused by social changes are affecting well-being through disrupting connections to place and affecting people's sense of identity as tied to an agricultural past. The weather changes caused by climate change are increasing anxiety and worry linked to feelings of unpredictability, uncertainty, and loss of control. There is also overlap. Both the changes caused by climate change and by social changes are affecting well-being by disrupting the reliability of place-based knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863597","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":"Building monuments, unleashing anger: The material disruption of contested memoryscapes","authors":"Maida Kosatica","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100963","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the post-war memoryscapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina via (defaced and destroyed) monuments evidencing the habitual struggle to disrupt and reorder space, and reinterpret the traumatic past. Analysing a combination of digital and fieldwork data, I make a case for interpreting attacks on monuments as a civilian retaliatory agency, exerting spatial hegemony and substantiating resentful affective regimes (especially in relation to the most recently imposed legal ban on the denial of genocide in Srebrenica). In doing so, I consider how citizens’ “truths” are enacted by distorting loss and violence, while collective trauma persists. This paper further illustrates how peculiar remembrance practices modify the standard purpose and meanings of a monument, contextualizing monuments within a larger framework of post-conflict spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100963"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49874532","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}