£25.00
Publication Date:
01 Nov 2007
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing
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Description
Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emotion. The book demonstrates the richness that an interdisciplinary engagement with the emotionality of socio-spatial life generates.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Geography's 'Emotional Turn', Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith. Locating Emotion: Placing the dying body: emotional, situational and embodied factors in preferences for place of final care and death in cancer, Sara M. Morris and Carol Thomas; 'Mourning the loss' or 'no regrets': exploring women's emotional responses to hysterectomy, Marion Collis; 'Healing and feeling': the place of emotions in later life, Christine Milligan, Amanda Bingley and Anthony Gatrell; Guilty pleasures of the Golden Arches: mapping McDonald's in narratives of round-the-world travel, Jennie Germann Molz; The place of emotions within place, John Urry. Relating Emotion: 'Not a display of emotions': emotional geographies in the Scottish Highlands, Hester Parr, Chris Philo and Nicky Burns; Freedom, space and perspective: moving encounters with other ecologies, David Conradson; The geographies of 'going out': emotion and embodiment in the evening economy, Phil Hubbard; Environments of memory: home space, later life and grief, Jenny Hockey, Bridget Penhale and David Sibley; 'Looking in the fridge for feelings': the gendered psychodynamics of consumer culture, Colleen Heenan; Affecting touch: towards a 'felt' phenomenology of therapeutic touch, Mark Paterson. Representing Emotion: Ageing and the emotions: framing old age in Victorian painting, Mike Hepworth; Intimate distances considering questions of 'Us', Deborah Thien; An ecology of emotion, memory, self and landscape, Owain Jones; On 'being' moved by nature: geography, emotion and environmental ethics, Mick Smith; The place of emotions in research: from partitioning emotion and reason to the emotional dynamics of research relationships, Liz Bondi; Index.
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