Editorial: Emotional geography and <i>Transactions</i>

Little, Jo

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“…Taking Pile's observation as a starting point – that ‘emotional geography emphasises the significance of expressed emotions’ (2010, p. 7) – I reflect on the political relevance of rage and anger by focusing empirically on the uprising that erupted following Floyd's murder, putting it in perspective in relation to similar uprisings in US cities since the turn of the century. My aim, conceptually, is to extend geography's engagement with emotions by reflecting on rage and anger as political emotions, addressing a gap in this literature (see, for example, Henderson, 2008; Little, 2019). This, however, is not an attempt to simply expand the list of emotions in geographical literature.…”

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Rage as a political emotion

Dikeç

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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George Floyd's murder by a white policeman has sparked the largest urban uprising in US cities since the 1960s. By contextualising this wave of uprisings in the broader context of similar uprisings in twenty‐first‐century US cities, this paper shows that such an uprising has long been in the making with the violence, murders and revolts that have marked US cities since the turn of the century. My argument in this paper is against the pathological framing of these uprisings that evokes the alleged irrational anger of those who participate in the uprisings and the bad behaviour of a few police officers. Such a framing directs attention away from the structural violence that is at the source of these uprisings, and perpetuates racialised images of those who participate in the uprisings as irrational and impulsive. These uprisings, I argue, are not the actions of irrationally angry individuals mindlessly following the crowds; they cannot be reduced to gratuitous looting and burning, and they are not triggered by some police officers behaving badly. The sources of this urban rage lie in systematic, mostly unchecked, violence. The rage that erupts in these uprisings is a political emotion guided by cognition and judgements about right and wrong, just and unjust, rather than a pathological reaction spurred by uncontrollable impulses. It is a deliberate response to white contempt and the violence associated with it.

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Dikeç

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Teaching sensory geographies in practice: transforming students’ awareness and understanding through playful experimentation

Morris

2020

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Various 'turns' within human geography ('emotional', 'sensory', 'experimental', and 'creative') have highlighted the role that the senses play in our embodied and emotional experiences of place, and the need for more sensuous scholarly practices. Resulting work has enriched the discipline theoretically and methodologically, however, the same cannot be said for our pedagogy. Drawing on data relating to one undergraduate Honours option course, this paper highlights the powerful role that sensorially engaged pedagogy can play in transforming the awareness and understanding of geography students. It focuses, in particular, on methods of emphasising the embodied, emplaced and individually constructed nature of knowledge, the critical potential of play in the learning process, and how students might be emboldened to enact performances of understanding leading to a transformation in the person of the student.

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Towards an emotional geography of diplomacy: Insights from the United Nations Security Council

Jones

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper I progress an emotional geography of diplomacy by considering emotions as part of calculative action on the part of diplomats. I seek to move the spotlight away from what emotion is to what emotion, as an embodied sociality, seeks to do to the alteration or reproduction of geopolitical relations. This unique focus on the calculative dimensions of emotional usage in diplomacy is a central though unexplored dimension of emotional geopolitics and one that I consider supports a perspective in which emotions are not depoliticised or trivialised, but situated, historicised, and relational, and which may be mobilised for political purposes. Focusing on the socio‐spatiality of calculative emotions, and building on recent scholarly interest in the mobilisation and manipulation of emotions, I explore their use in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a poignant and powerful context for the study of emotional diplomacies. Using empirically rich materials derived from interviews with Security Council delegations, the paper's aims are threefold. First, I explore the different ways in which emotions are perceived, performed, interpreted, and acted on by diplomats in this international, inter‐cultural geopolitical body. Second, from a geographical perspective I investigate the ways in which embodied emotions are distinctively connected to specific sites and spaces, and demonstrate the complexities of their usage in the UNSC. Finally, using a case study of Russian–UK emotional exchanges in the UNSC over the civil war and humanitarian crisis in Syria, I show that research on emotional diplomacies must be sensitive to the specific social and cultural assumptions over what particular emotions mean and do in altering and reproducing geopolitical relations.

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Editorial: Emotional geography and Transactions

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Rage as a political emotion

Rage as a political emotion

Teaching sensory geographies in practice: transforming students’ awareness and understanding through playful experimentation

Towards an emotional geography of diplomacy: Insights from the United Nations Security Council

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