Emotional Geographies

by Davidson,Joyce

• ISBN13: 9780754671077
• ISBN10: 0754671070
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars - including geographers Phil Hubbard, Chris Philo and Hester Parr, and sociologists Jenny Hockey, Mike Hepworth and John Urry - and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emotion. Following an overarching introduction, three interlinked sections elaborate key intersections between emotions and spatial concepts, on which each chapter offers a particular take informed by substantive research. At the heart of the collection lies a commitment to convey how emotions always spill over from one domain to another, as well as to illuminate the multiplicity of spaces that produce and are produced by emotional life. The book demonstrates the richness that an interdisciplinary engagement with the emotionality of socio-spatial life generates.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Geography's 'Emotional Turn'

Locating Emotion

Placing the dying body: emotional, situational and embodied factors in preferences for place of final care and death in cancer

'Mourning the loss' or 'no regrets': exploring women's emotional responses to hysterectomy, Marion Collis

'Healing and feeling': the place of emotions in later life

Guilty pleasures of the Golden Arches: mapping McDonald's in narratives of round-the-world travel

The place of emotions within place

Relating Emotion: 'Not a display of emotions': emotional geographies in the Scottish Highlands

Freedom, space and perspective: moving encounters with other ecologies

The geographies of 'going out': emotion and embodiment in the evening economy

Environments of memory: home space, later life and grief

'Looking in the fridge for feelings': the gendered psychodynamics of consumer culture

Affecting touch: towards a 'felt' phenomenology of therapeutic touch

Representing Emotion: Ageing and the emotions: framing old age in Victorian painting

Intimate distances considering questions of 'Us', Deborah Thien; An ecology of emotion, memory, self and landscape

On 'being' moved by nature: geography, emotion and environmental ethics

The place of emotions in research: from partitioning emotion and reason to the emotional dynamics of research relationships

Index

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