Emotion, Place and Culture

by Joyce Davidson, Laura Cameron, Mick Smith, Liz Bondi

Overview

Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with geographers among others making a significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections between people and places. Building on the achievements of Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering, understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409488040
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Dr Mick Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, all at Queen's University, Canada, Dr Joyce Davidson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Queen's University, Canada, Dr Laura Cameron is Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies and Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Contributors: Mick Smith, Joyce Davidson, Laura Cameron, Liz Bondi, Avril Maddrell, R. Darren Gobert, Nigel Thrift, Richard C. Powell, Anh Hua, Mary O’Neill, Emilie Cameron, Katy Bennett, Deborah Thien, Cheryl Lousley, Frances Dyson, Dianne Newell, Jolene McCann, Alexandre Gillet and Alphonso Lingis.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: geography and emotion – emerging constellations, Mick Smith, Joyce Davidson, Laura Cameron and Liz Bondi; Part I Remembering: Road kill: remembering what is left in our encounters with other animals, Mick Smith; Mapping shades of grief and consolation in the historic landscape of St Patrick's Isle, Isle of Man, Avril Maddrell; Historicizing emotion: the case of Freudian hysteria and Aristotelian 'purgation', R. Darren Gobert. Part II Understanding: Understanding the affective spaces of political performance, Nigel Thrift; Environmental aesthetics, ecological action and social justice, Jennifer Foster; Learning from spaces of play: recording emotional practices in High Arctic environmental sciences, Richard C. Powell. Part III Mourning: 'What we all long for': memory, trauma and emotional geographies, Anh Hua; Ephemeral art: the art of being lost, Mary O'Neill; 'To mourn': emotional geographies and natural histories of the Canadian Arctic, Emilie Cameron. Part IV Belonging: Telling tales: nostalgia, collective identity and an ex-mining village, Katy Bennett; Death and bingo? The Royal Canadian Legion's unexpected spaces of emotion, Deborah Thien; 'I love the goddamn river': masculinity, emotion and ethics of place, Cheryl Lousley. Part V Enchanting: Enchanting data: body, voice and tone in affective computing, Frances Dyson; Judith Merrill moving in and out of this world: urban landscape encounters of a science fiction personality in the 60s and 70s, Dianne Newell and Jolene McCann; One stone after the other: geopoetical considerations on stony ground, Alexandre Gillet; The steppe, Alphonso Lingis; Index.