Showing papers in "Emotion, Space and Society in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of migration and emotions studies, hopefully inspiring further scholarly work and orienting newcomers to the field, and make a case for further comparative, multi-method and interdisciplinary research on migration and emotion given the important intersections of these fields.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed the philosophical, political and anthropological literature on atmosphere and explored the relationship between atmosphere, material culture, subjectivity and affect in a special issue on staging atmospheres.

TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which a shifting flow of atmosphere is generated inside and outside football stadia, generated by events on the pitch, spatial formations, fan culture, and other factors such as weather, season and light.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the use of light to stage atmospheres in a residential area of Copenhagen, Denmark and investigated how light is about more than individual perception and plays a crucial role in orchestrating a sense of community, solitude and "secureness" at home.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore five operating modes of ambiance in the province of urban design: establishing the sensory as a field of action, composing with affective tonalities, giving consistency to urban situations, maintaining spaces over time and playing with imperceptible transformations.

TL;DR: This paper analysed a corpus of newspaper editorials and comment pieces from 2013 to 2014 concerning Aotearoa New Zealand's national day investigating how affective-discursive practices are mobilised to "cover the nation" and "settle space".

TL;DR: The authors explored the experience of "guilt" as a motivating emotion in the migration process, and argued that a moral obligation to return is implicit in migration process and that guilt is a tool for exerting influence over others and alleviating inequities in relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors link debates around technology, materiality and affect to generate a theory of inorganically organized objects and affects, and suggest that technical objects can be understood as assemblages of matter, which are organized by material thresholds that shape their capacity to affect.

TL;DR: In the context of an austerity agenda, constructed through the deployment of aversive emotions, the authors offer a more-than-rational understanding of uneven austerity politics for organisations providing public services with marginalised groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential for analysing atmosphere in the prehistoric past and propose a notion of atmosphere that is particular to the study of non-experiential contexts, capable of accommodating the material infrastructure of social spaces (eg architecture, lighting and sensuous qualities) and movement (the corporeal staging of particular channels of experience).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reflect on a participatory action research (PAR) project conducted with Tanzanian child domestic workers and highlight moments of emotional complexity unique to PAR projects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors acknowledge the dark passenger of emotional vicarious trauma associated with conducting post-disaster research and explore ways that future researchers can pre-empt this phenomenon and to consider ways that they might manage this.

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between emotions and gender, sexuality, and race in sexualised night-time leisure spaces in the Gay Village of Manchester, highlighting the importance of taking into account intersections of social identities when exploring how people feel in certain spaces.

TL;DR: Based on a long-term ethnography inside thirty urban dwellings, this article explored what it means to feel "at home" in contemporary Japan, by focussing on back-stage activities such as sleeping, eating, and bathing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that what is at the root of museum experience is atmosphere, i.e., the in-betweenness of objects and subjects, which creates an affective space which disturbs our everyday concepts of the world.

TL;DR: In this article, the experiences and challenges of undertaking longitudinal research in Thailand following the 2004 Tsunami from the perspective of a research student are discussed, including common logistical and planning challenges in undertaking disaster research in a cross-cultural setting and how positionality, reflexivity, reciprocity and the differing needs of the researcher and participants influence research outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on experiences of, and reactions to listening to, analysing and writing about these traumatic cultural memories Collins (1998: 335) has observed that the emotions experienced, whether by the interviewer or interviewee, are as real, as important and as interesting as any other product of the interview.

TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue of the journal Angelaki 16(4), 2011 is devoted to posthumanist explorations of affect, and to open possibilities for articulating non-solipsistic and non-anthropocentric notions of the subject.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to raise awareness of vicarious trauma amongst disaster researchers, and suggest ways to prevent vicarious traumatisation from happening and/or reaching incapacitating levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine hope among Italian families of Ecuadorian origin, through analysis of affective states produced by the place to which they have migrated, and emphasize the political aspects of hope as a resource for migrants to realize their agency and interact with the world.

TL;DR: The authors explored the multiple and simultaneous senses of belonging of Latin Americans in the north of England, a sparse migrant population characterised by a high degree of socio-cultural invisibility, i.e. lack of official recognition and limited cultural/ethnic organisation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the expression of guilt within the narrative of Argentinean migrants in Miami, United States and Barcelona, Spain and found that guilt is a gendered emotion that allows migrants to temporarily stay attached to their family during the migration process.

TL;DR: This article explored the idea of children's and young people's emotional labor through an analysis of a collaborative effort between local nonprofits, government agencies, youth organizations and research institutions aimed at addressing the lack of public green space in a disenfranchised urban community in California.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore what can be gained from a constructive dialogue between different agendas when trying to make sense of the location of hate in the social fabric of human life.

TL;DR: In this paper, the body-subject is always in approach to itself and others, but neither is actually reached, never (self) present, always already receding: a spacing at the heart of any relation.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the state, far from embodying a detached and neutral arbiter utilising various steering mechanisms of care and due process, instead governs through fear and anxiety generated in relation to outsiders.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical post-humanist analysis of emotion, education, and human-animal relations is presented, including a reinterpretation of previous research on "shared suffering" (Haraway, 2008, Porcher, 2011 ).

TL;DR: This paper explored the verbal construction of identity as evidence of the process of integration into a new society and found that despite differences between the two locales regarding such things as the respective welfare regimes and relations with natives, the identity work required for refugees to reinscribe and reconstruct their sense of self was remarkably similar.

TL;DR: This article explored the emotional underpinnings of remittance sending to family in Africa through the narratives of a group of Dinka women living in Australia with a focus on the emotional Underpinning.