Pile, Steve
(2010).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00368.x |
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Abstract
This paper seeks to examine both how emotions have been explored in emotional geography and also how affect has been understood in affectual geography. By tracing out the conceptual influences underlying emotional and affectual geography, I seek to understand both the similarities and differences between their approaches. I identify three key areas of agreement: a relational ontology that privileges fluidity; a privileging of proximity and intimacy in their accounts; and a favouring of ethnographic methods. Even so, there is a fundamental disagreement, concerning the relationship – or non-relationship – between emotions and affect. Yet, this split raises awkward questions for both approaches, about how emotions and affect are to be understood and also about their geographies. As importantly, mapping the agreements and disagreements within emotional and affectual geography helps with an exploration of the political implications of this work. I draw upon psychoanalytic geography to suggest ways of addressing certain snags in both emotional and affectual geography.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) |
| ISSN: | 1475-5661 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Politics, Economics, Development, Geography Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 19964 |
| Depositing User: | Users 9 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2010 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2016 21:25 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/19964 |
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