Feeling differently: Approaches and their politics

Gammerl, Benno; Hutta, Jan Simon; Scheer, Monique

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2017.07.007

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“…Much reparative and affirmative work—especially insofar as it engages with discussions about critique—shares a focus on telling stories that feel better to their tellers or their readers or that motivate or capacitate action in some way, often with an implicit assumption or explicit claim that feeling only one particular way (i.e., feeling better) promotes action in ways that feeling in any other way or in a multiplicity of ways does not. There is, to be sure, often a compelling rationale to such claims, but the movement from story to feeling to action may be neither so straightforward nor so singular, shaped as it is by difference (Gammerl et al, 2017). On this score, we think feminist and queer geographic currents within affirmative and reparative projects have tended to be better at understanding the way that these stories, feelings, and actions are constituted by a politics of difference and point toward the necessary ambivalence involved in the attempt to tell better stories.…”

Section: Affects Of Critique In Geographical Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Ruez

Cockayne

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Scholars across the social sciences and humanities have increasingly questioned the meaning and purpose of critique. Contributing to those conversations, some geographers have advocated for affirmative or reparative practices such as reading for difference or experimentation that seek to provoke more joyful, hopeful, or enchanting affects, as alternatives to what they perceive as a prevailing forms of ‘negative’ critique. In response, others have re-emphasized the centrality of negativity and revalued negative affects in the context of regimes of racialization, heteronormativity, and coloniality. Rather than taking sides in a debate thus framed, this article develops an ambivalent position that foregrounds multiple senses of difference that exist within affirmative and reparative projects. Drawing on feminist and queer geographic work, the explicitly political and difference-oriented writing of Sedgwick and Deleuze, and queer and postcolonial affect scholars, we argue for critique characterized by an ambivalent and pluralistic attitude toward feeling. Joining those arguing for a pluralization of the moods and modes of critical work, our readings suggest the necessity of a pluralism that refuses any escape from the ‘negativity’ of the social field in favor of an affectively ambivalent engagement with the inherent politics of critique in a plural and uneven world.

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Section: Affects Of Critique In Geographical Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Ruez

Cockayne

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…This complexity was being intensified by virtue of listening to automation stories that articulated how the feelings of others were variously accommodated, suppressed, or ridden over roughshod. Gammerl et al (2017) suggest that it can be tempting to assume that what bodies are feeling is more or less accessible and, therefore, comprehensible. While certain 'affective states', understood as repeated and therefore enduring affects, might come to be associated with particularly joyful or sad situations, the bodily feelings that I was experiencing concerning automation were becoming difficult to make out.…”

Section: Empathetic Affectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change

Bissell

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article enhances our understanding of the thoroughly embodied nature of knowledge production in relation to automation by demonstrating how making sense of automation is a generative process, rather than the demystification of an already existing object of analysis. It argues that the process of knowing automation involves situated encounters that transform bodies at the level of their indeterminate capacities to affect and be affected which, in turn, contributes to the production of what automation is. Contrasting with more generalised diagnoses about how automation is deskilling or reskilling bodies, it evaluates the constitutive role of situated encounters that register in sensing bodies for reshaping capacities. Focusing on iron ore mining in Australia, an industry sector that is currently increasing its automated operations, the paper draws on a series of fieldwork encounters with people differently positioned in the mining sector. Through the presentation of five stories that incorporate combinations of these fieldwork encounters, the paper constructs a more complex picture of how automation is redefining different bodies. Rather than taken to be mere representations of automation, it argues that the listening to and telling of stories about automation is a form of encounter that redefines bodies in the process.

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“…Such a perspective blurs any strict boundaries between the encounter and everyday activities. Others have pointed out the value of socio-spatially sensitive approaches to emotion research (Gammerl et al, 2017) that integrate the visceral body with the political and historical contexts in which meaning is produced. For the study of digitally mediated transnational emotion, this implies that analysing the affective and emotional facets of migrants’ spatially mobile lives requires a conceptual approach that encompasses routine, repeated media activities and their digital traces.…”

Section: Theories Of Emotion and The Affective Turn In Media Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion

Alinejad

Ponzanesi

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This collection brings together key themes that integrate the scholarship on migration, digital media, and emotion. Drawing from a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological traditions that cross-cut academic disciplines, the articles in this issue explore the emotional facets of digitally mediated migrant socialities in a variety of socio-cultural and geographic locales. These examinations raise important questions about how digital media ubiquity shapes global migration experiences and multicultural media publics at various scales. How are relations of intimacy and care at a distance articulated and experienced through social media? What does it mean to imagine home as a digitally mediated experience? In what unexpected ways are platforms reshaping migrant subjectivities? In this introductory article we address these and other questions, outlining how we believe the study of emotion can help us think more comprehensively about the digital mediation of migrants’ social lives in the current media age.

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Feeling differently: Approaches and their politics

Cited by 31 publications

References 39 publications

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change

Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion

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