Editorial: Emotional geographies

Anderson, Kenneth M.; Smith, Susan J.

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“…In thinking through where embodiment and the senses fit within the wider 'performative turn', the word affect also features prominently (McCormack, 2004;Paterson, 2005). Sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for emotion, I prefer to see it geographically as a connective concept between embodied instincts and their expression in a set of 'places of the senses', where emotional, pre-cognitive and subconscious dimensions of healing are triggered and experienced (Anderson and Smith, 2001;Eyles and Williams, 2008;Dewsbury, 2009;Lea, 2009). Affective experiences are also embodied, such that reflexive relationships emerge between bodies, minds, spirits, health and place.…”

Section: Performative Turn and Therapeutic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Foley

2011

Health & Place

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a b s t r a c tThis paper examines the holy well as a representative therapeutic landscape with a particular focus on linking a traditional setting with contemporary theory associated with the 'performative turn'. This is developed within the paper to suggest a new theoretical model of the 'therapeutic assemblage' containing material, metaphoric and inhabited dimensions. Drawing empirical evidence from Irish holy wells, complex holistic performances of health are identified within such settings. Deeper associations with more-than-representational theory suggest new directions in the study of therapeutic landscapes to uncover the importance of cultural practice and lay narratives of healing in the creation of healthy place.

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Section: Performative Turn and Therapeutic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Foley

2011

Health & Place

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“…In considering the emotional dimensions of surfboard making I refer to the intimate, conscious and situated bodily feelings, which rely on interpretation and categorisation (Anderson and Smith 2001, Wood and Smith 2004, Pile 2010. While the notion of affect has often been used interchangeably with emotion (see Thrift 2004 for example) the approach taken here is that emotions -while intrinsically related to affect (Pile 2010) -represent conscious, cognitive and personal expressions by our bodies (Bondi 2005, Thien 2005, Sharp 2009).…”

Section: Emotional and Embodied Dimensions Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry

Warren

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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. (2016). Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry. Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography, 23 (1), 36-54.Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry AbstractThis article examines the masculinities of male workers in the context of an emotionally rich form of labour: surfboard-making. Contributing to emerging research around the emotional and embodied dimensions of men's working lives, the article maps the cultural, emotional and embodied dimensions of work onto masculine identity construction. Combining cultural economy theory, emotional geographies and in-depth ethnographic methods, I reveal how surfboard-making has become a gendered form of work; how jobs rely on (and impact) the body and what surfboard-making means to workers outside of financial returns. Following a manual labour process, and informed by Western surfing subculture, commercial surfboard-making has layered onto male bodies. Men perform 'blokey' masculinities in relation with one another. However, doing manual craftwork evokes close, personal interaction; among co-workers but also through engagements with place and local customers. Felt, embodied craft skills help workers personalise boards for individual customers and local breaks. Beneath masculine work cultures and pretensions, surfboard-making is a deeply emotional and embodied work. Labour is dependent on haptic knowledge: sense of touch, bodily movement and eye for detail. Contrasting their blokey masculinity, surfboard-makers rely on intimate links between their bodies, tools, materials, customers and surfing places. These 'strong bodied' men articulate a 'passion' and 'love' for 'soulful' jobs, demonstrating how waged work comprises alternative masculinities, shaped by working culture, relations and labour processes. A cultural economy framework and emotionally engaged research approach are valuable for challenging hegemonic masculinity, important for achieving more inclusive, tolerant and equitable workplaces. Beneath masculine work cultures and pretensions, surfboard-making is deeply emotional and embodied work. Labour is dependent on haptic knowledges: sense of touch, bodily movement and eye for detail. Contrasting their blokey masculinity surfboard makers rely on intimate links between their bodies, tools, materials, customers and surfing places. These 'strong bodied' men articulate a 'passion' and 'love' for 'soulful' jobs, demonstrating how waged work comprises alternative masculinities, shaped by working culture, relations and labour processes. A cultural economy framework and emotionally engaged research approach is valuable for challenging hegemonic masculinity, important for achieving more inclusive, tolerant and equitable workplaces.2

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“…The role of emotions in planning and policy processes is gathering increasing research attention (Anderson and Smith, 2002;and generally in social research, Widdowfield, 2000). Conventionally, the emotional dimension of policy debate is viewed as a distraction to rather than component of good decision making.…”

Section: Emotions Of Objectionmentioning

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Siting Prisons, Sighting Communities: Geographies of Objection in a Planning Process

Armstrong

2014

Environ Plan A

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This article reviews the planning process for a Scottish prison located near a former mining village. Analysing the letters of objection submitted by residents offers an opportunity to explore local views about prison and community and to relate these to the unique social and spatial history of the area. The planning process itself structured how residents were able to express themselves and defined what counted as a relevant objection. After deconstructing this process, the article then restores and uses as a framework for analysis three geographies of objection stripped from local responses to the development proposal: the emotional, temporal and spatial. Emotional expressions of objection added intensity and gave meaning to claims about the historical decline of the region and also conveyed a deep sense of the proposed building site as a lived space. Particular grounds of opposition -over fear of strangers, the fragility of a local orchid, and the pollution from mining -provide an opportunity to explore the complex nature of place meaning and community identity, ultimately leading to a conclusion that the meaning of place is always in flux. The paper srgues that Simmel's classic concept of the Stranger, as the outsider who comes to stay, offers a useful analytic in understanding how the quality of proximal remoteness that prisons and other unwanted developments constitute participate in a constantly evolving sense of the local.

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Editorial: Emotional geographies

Cited by 587 publications

References 10 publications

Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry

Siting Prisons, Sighting Communities: Geographies of Objection in a Planning Process

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