Emotions and affect in recent human geography

Pile, Steve

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00368.x

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“…This dominant Massumi/Thrift analysis of affect and discourse is beginning to be extensively criticized (for example, Hemmings, 2005;Laurier and Philo, 2006;Gill and Pratt, 2008;Pile, 2010;Leys, 2011;Blackman, 2012;Wetherell, 2012, in press). Leys (2011), for instance, forensically takes apart the psychological studies on which Massumi's argument is based and argues that the foundations are flimsy (see also Wetherell, 2012, Chapters 2 and 3).…”

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“…Like other recent critics (for example, Hemmings, 2005;Thien, 2005;Laurier and Philo, 2006;Gill and Pratt, 2008;Papoulias and Callard, 2010;Pile, 2010;Leys, 2011;Blackman, 2012), the separation of human affect from discourse, and from mindfulness, seems to me unsustainable. Not least, this is built on a deeply problematic psychology (Leys, 2011;Wetherell, 2012, Chapters 2 and 3).…”

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Affect and discourse – What’s the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice

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The recent 'turn to affect' in social and cultural research has been built on the notion of affect as a kind of excess. Affect is contrasted with the discursive and the cognitive, and distinguished from 'domesticated' emotion. The focus is on the presumed direct hit of events on bodies and on what is sensed rather than known. This formulation in combination with the need for new methods has disconnected discourse studies from research on affect. In common with other recent critics, I argue that the formulation of affect as an excess is unsustainable. I focus here, however, on the methodological consequences. The objective of affect research is to produce textured, lively analyses of multiple modes of engagement and to understand the working of power through patterns of assemblage. Intriguingly, fine-grain studies of discursive practice might realize these aims more effectively than some new, 'non-representational' methodological approaches. I contrast one example of non-representational empirical investigation with an example of discursive research on normative episodic sequences. My general aim is to build a more productive dialogue between rich traditions in discourse studies and new lines of research on affect and emotion.

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“…Critically, though taking its cue from the theoretical literatures on mobility, this paper also seeks to contribute to ongoing work within human geography on affect (Bissell, 2009b(Bissell, , 2010aPile, 2010;Adey, 2010). This body of work suggests that there is a constant push and pull of affect between a human body and its surroundings (Thrift, 2004).…”

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On being aeromobile: airline passengers and the affective experiences of flight

Budd

2011

Journal of Transport Geography

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On being aeromobile: airline passengers and the affective experiences of flightThe advent of heavier-than-air powered flight and the subsequent inauguration of regular passenger air services at the beginning of the twentieth century transformed not only the practical geographies but also the affective human experiences of travelling. Aircraft enabled passengers to accomplish journeys, which would once have taken many days or weeks to complete, in a matter of hours, and transformed the sensory experiences of being mobile. However, while much has been written about the development of global commercial aviation and the metaphorical compression of time and space air travel has effected, research into the individual embodied human experiences of being aeromobile remains relatively scarce. Drawing on powerful theoretical arguments inspired by the mobilities turn within the social sciences and recent concern with the 'affective' dimensions of everyday life, this paper uses firsthand written historical records of passengers' experiences of travelling by air during the 1920s and 1930s to uncover the diverse kin/aesthetic and affective experiences of flight. While recognising that such experiences are shaped, at least in part, by gender, age, nationality, race, and past experiences of air travel, passengers' descriptions of the unique bodily (dis)comforts, fears, and anxieties associated with flying are used to illustrate how aeromobile bodies experience their airborne environment in ways which have yet to be adequately addressed. The paper concludes by calling for a more nuanced understanding of air travel that recognises that the advent of powered flight has fundamentally changed our perceptions of time, space, distance, and speed, and transformed what it means to be mobile.

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“…Without entering detailed epistemological and ontological debates regarding emotions and affect (e.g. Bondi, 2014;Everts & Wagner, 2012;Gregg & Seigworth, 2011;Pile, 2010), we acknowledge emotions existing with regard to both their physical and cognitive aspects, individual/ised as well as socially circulating and spatially contextual (Smith et al, 2009). We consider affect as part of a wider coming-to-emotion process (Askins, 2016) and are specifically interested in how we (as academics) make sense of affect: how we, however paradoxical it seems (and feels), articulate what might be un-articulable, and in turn cope in and with the daily emotional realities of our situated positionalities.…”

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Feeling our way: academia, emotions and a politics of care

Askins

Blažek

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper aims to better understand the role of emotions in academia, and their part in producing, and challenging, an increasingly normalized neoliberal academy. It unfolds from two narratives that foreground emotions in and across academic spaces and practices, to critically explore how knowledges and positions are constructed and circulated. It then moves to consider these issues through the lens of care as a political stance towards being and becoming academics in neoliberal times. Our aim is to contribute to the burgeoning literature on emotional geographies, explicitly bringing this work into conversation with resurgent debates surrounding an ethic of care, as part of a politic of critiquing individualism and managerialism in (and beyond) the academy. We consider the ways in which neoliberal university structures circulate particular affects, prompting emotions such as desire and anxiety, and the internalisation of competition and audit as embodied scholars. Our narratives exemplify how attendant emotions and affect can reverberate and be further reproduced through university cultures, and diffuse across personal and professional lives.We argue that emotions in academia matter, mutually co-producing everyday social relations and practices at and across all levels. We are interested in their political implications, and how neoliberal norms can be shifted through practices of caring-with.

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Emotions and affect in recent human geography

Cited by 735 publications

References 76 publications

Affect and discourse – What’s the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice

Affect and discourse – What’s the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice

On being aeromobile: airline passengers and the affective experiences of flight

Feeling our way: academia, emotions and a politics of care

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