Emotional Geographies

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. Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 9 1 Introduction: Geography’s ‘Emotional Turn’......Page 16 SECTION ONE: LOCATING EMOTION......Page 32 2 Placing the Dying Body: Emotional, Situational and Embodied Factors in Preferences for Place of Final Care and Death in Cancer......Page 34 3 ‘Mourning the Loss’ or ‘No Regrets’: Exploring Women’s Emotional Responses to Hysterectomy......Page 48 4 ‘Healing and Feeling’: The Place of Emotions in Later Life......Page 64 5 Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald’s in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel......Page 78 6 The Place of Emotions within Place......Page 92 SECTION TWO: RELATING EMOTION......Page 100 7 ‘Not a Display of Emotions’: Emotional Geographies in the Scottish Highlands......Page 102 8 Freedom, Space and Perspective: Moving Encounters with Other Ecologies......Page 118 9 The Geographies of ‘Going Out’: Emotion and Embodiment in the Evening Economy......Page 132 10 Environments of Memory: Home Space, Later Life and Grief......Page 150 11 ‘Looking in the Fridge for Feelings’: The Gendered Psychodynamics of Consumer Culture......Page 162 12 Affecting Touch: Towards a ‘Felt’ Phenomenology of Therapeutic Touch......Page 176 SECTION THREE: REPRESENTING EMOTION......Page 190 13 Ageing and the Emotions: Framing Old Age in Victorian Painting......Page 192 14 Intimate Distances: Considering Questions of ‘Us’......Page 206 15 An Ecology of Emotion, Memory, Self and Landscape......Page 220 16 On ‘Being’ Moved by Nature: Geography, Emotion and Environmental Ethics......Page 234 17 The Place of Emotions in Research: From Partitioning Emotion and Reason to the Emotional Dynamics of Research Relationships......Page 246 B......Page 262 C......Page 263 E......Page 264 F......Page 265 H......Page 266 K......Page 267 M......Page 268 N......Page 269 P......Page 270 S......Page 271 T......Page 272 Z......Page 273 "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."--Jacket

british, Canadian, And Australian Social Scientists Explore The Location Of Emotion In Both Bodies And Places, The Emotional Relationality Of People And Environments, And Representations Of Emotional Geographies. Among Their Topics Are Exploring Women's Emotional Responses To Hysterectomy, Mapping Macdonald's In Narratives Of Round-the-world Travel, Emotion And Embodiment In The Evening Economy, The Gendered Psychodynamics Of Consumer Culture, Framing Old Age In Victorian Painting, And The Place Of Emotions In Research. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

Bringing together a team of established geographers, this volume presents a wide range of informed, innovative approaches to thinking about emotion and space, dealing with issues such as death and 'missing' someone, gender, race, sexuality, age, mental health, environment and cultural politics