Richard Vytniorgu , Fred Cooper , Charlotte Jones , Manuela Barreto
{"title":"Loneliness and belonging in narrative environments","authors":"Richard Vytniorgu , Fred Cooper , Charlotte Jones , Manuela Barreto","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Loneliness and belonging are often framed as psychological states affecting individuals. Their family, friendship, psychological mindset, and acquaintance networks are seen as important factors shaping experiences of loneliness and belonging, but the role of place, culture, and institutional environments are often relegated to the periphery of attention. This article adopts the lens of narrative environment to highlight the importance of environments and cultures in storying experiences of loneliness and belonging, in this instance, among students enrolled at a UK university. Focusing especially on student accommodation and the university's links (or perceived lack thereof) with its locality and the university's infrastructure, we argue for the dialectic and reciprocal relationship between students and their environment in storying experiences of loneliness and belonging. Narrative environment, we argue, encapsulates the way in which some people negotiate a sense of belonging, moving the focus beyond individual psychology and immediate social networks, to the impact of institutional and environmental culture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"46 ","pages":"Article 100938"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50201148","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":"David K. Seitz","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"46 ","pages":"Article 100926"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50201041","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}
J. Karmann , M. Najjar , C.A. Ottoni , M. Shareck , S. Lord , M. Winters , D. Fuller , Y. Kestens
{"title":"“They didn't have to build that much”: A qualitative study on the emotional response to urban change in the Montreal context","authors":"J. Karmann , M. Najjar , C.A. Ottoni , M. Shareck , S. Lord , M. Winters , D. Fuller , Y. Kestens","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100937","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cities are constantly changing, and the way people experience these changes shapes their future relation with urban space. While studies of urban change often seek to illuminate socio-political and economic impacts, they seldom focus on the emotional responses that people have to those changes. Yet, emotional responses are important as they condition the way we respond to change. To better understand people's experience of urban change and the emotional response associated with it, we led a descriptive qualitative study<span> based on 32 semi-structured interviews and a directed content analysis with people living in Montreal, Canada, and its suburbs. Changes to the urban environment were linked to both positive and negative emotions. Among all the physical and social changes reported, condominiums (“condos”), emerged as a prominent theme that elicited a strong emotional response. Condos triggered feelings of disappointment, fear, irritation, pessimism, but also enthusiasm. We argue that these emotional responses stem from the impact condos may have on three aspects of people's lives: daily mobility, residential stability, and place attachment.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"46 ","pages":"Article 100937"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50201147","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":"A life without a plan? Freelance musicians in pandemic limbo","authors":"Anna Nørholm Lundin","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already precarious conditions of freelance workers. The aim of this study is to understand what it means for freelance musicians to be in pandemic limbo. Thirteen Swedish professional freelance musicians in the classical genre were interviewed about their experiences in the midst of the pandemic. A theoretical frame of reference is offered with concepts from Bourdieu, sociology of emotions and emotional geographies. This enables an understanding of what it means as a freelancer to be dislocated and disrupted in relation to places and spaces of work and investments in time and emotions. The conclusions are about the ambivalent emotions and processes of emotional management that are caused by the pandemic. For freelance musicians, depending on their access to the live-settings of gigs, auditions and social venues, it is like being thrown back in time and place (back to where careers were slowly built). However, while at a distance from the normal run of careers, constructive processes of critical reflection and re-orientation have been initiated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100924"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553440/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10395788","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":"Between place and territory: Young people's emotional geographies of security and insecurity in Brussels' deprived areas","authors":"Mattias De Backer","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While much of literature on place attachment describes it as an affective bond between a (young) person and place, with positive psychosocial consequences such as identification, rootedness and belonging, some authors are cautious and stress that an <em>enhanced</em><span> attachment to place, termed “territoriality”, may have negative consequences such as hostility towards outsiders and a sense of non-belonging elsewhere. In this paper, I ask how we should understand this difference and how the analysis of young people's emotional geographies of (in)security can bring light to this question. The paper finds that emotional geographies of (in)security are instrumental in understanding how a “positive” attachment to place may lead to a “negative” attachment to territory, how some young people emotionally </span><em>attach</em> to places and some are inclined to <em>claim</em> these places against outsiders (and also at the expense of other members of the community). This explicit appropriation of public spaces in the home neighbourhood is co-constituted by feeling secure inside and insecure outside the area. Territoriality may be a response to or an expression of ontological insecurity and of the inner unease that prompts them to strange avoidance and contorted strategies for manipulating spaces and setting boundaries designed to secure the self.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100911"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81158828","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 atmospheres of weapons technologies: The case of battle drones, combat fighters and bodies in contemporary German geopolitics","authors":"Linda Ruppert","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using the example of the defense and security sector at the Innovation and Leadership in Aerospace aviation fair in Berlin, this paper interrogates how the presentation of weapons technologies at German security and aviation fairs produces a/effects that influence the body and serve to legitimize political decisions. It examines to what extent the body becomes the site of geopolitical negotiation via affective atmospheres and how different scales interact within this process. First, I argue that affective connections between weapons technologies and spectators are essential for legitimizing warfare technologies. Second, I argue that affects of weapons technologies are subject to ambivalence and ambiguity, and that they are to be understood as entangled with other affects in the same body. Third, I argue that affects become effective across material and spatial scales. Drawing on geographic work on affective atmospheres, debates in intimate geopolitics and feminist science and technology studies, the paper contributes to critical geopolitics by unpacking the role of affective dimensions in naturalizing the development and acquisition of weapons technologies. In doing so, it also contributes to debates on the methodological operationalization of theories of affect and to emotional geographies of (in)security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100909"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74988339","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":"“I get a whiz in my body as I walk past it”: Visceral imaginaries in children's everyday mobilities","authors":"Tanja Joelsson","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100912","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article focuses on how the visceral, sensual and the imagined shape children's everyday mobility experiences and their meaning making around their everyday mobility, thus contributing to the growing field of study on children's emotional geographies and to the field of visceral geographies. By introducing the concept of visceral imaginaries, the role of the imagined in children's spatial and mobile experiences is highlighted and developed. The children further emerge as aged bodies in these visceral processes, as the affective practices and visceral imaginaries position children as aged subjects. The findings are based on a qualitative research project on children's practices and experiences of their everyday mobilities, in which 59 children (7–13 years old) participated, predominantly from white urban middle-class families in a mid-sized municipality in Sweden.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100912"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000445/pdfft?md5=60a6ac1297905290142697102d7e7b8d&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000445-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79237213","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":"In harmony or out of tune: Affective and emotional geographies of all-male choirs in London, UK","authors":"Emily Falconer","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the growing popularity of weekly amateur choral singing for adult men, with a specific focus in London, UK. This paper moves away from discourses of social health and wellbeing to bring together critical studies of masculinity with emotional geographies of sound, to better understand the links between choirs as an affective space and the complex, symbolic relationship between men and their voices. Where research has shown that non-competitive group activity is central to men's sense of connection and provides a space for men to express emotions, friendship and intimacy, there is great potential to analyse how the role of sound (volume, vibrations) and use of choral voice work (softening, blending, harmonies) directly facilitates this connection. This paper remains cautious of presenting group singing as an automatic panacea to disconnection, exploring the exclusions for those who are ‘out of tune’ and (musically and socially) unable to harmonise with others.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100925"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000573/pdfft?md5=ff8eab894852bd079ca469e3f3020a59&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000573-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73412686","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":"Queer affordances of care in suburban public libraries","authors":"Alison L. Bain","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public libraries are more than the materiality of their built form and collections. Within ever-widening mandates to enhance social inclusion and citizen emotional and physical well-being through micro-political practices of care, this paper addresses the resourceful community resilience that insider activist and ally librarians may foster for LGBTQ + suburbanites. Turning its attention to Canadian suburban public libraries in three case study peripheral municipalities (Mississauga, Brampton, and Ajax) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), this paper draws on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with librarians to identify affordances of care selectively available for sexual and gender minorities. Following its original usage in psychology of perception scholarship, affordances are understood as the perceived differential, functional, and relational possibilities of objects, places, and people for action. The range of affordances of care discussed in this paper include: LGBTQ + -positive space iconography; LGBTQ + Pride book displays, reading lists, and book marks; and LGBTQ + book clubs, writing workshops, and story times. These empirical examples are used to explore the performative progressive limitations of suburban public libraries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100923"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82190603","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":"Ramil Zamanov","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100922"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137042900","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}