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Women’s Emotional Well-being in Shetland: Stories from the Field

Emotional Geographies. Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh dthien@geo.ed.ac.uk. Women’s Emotional Well-being in Shetland: Stories from the Field. Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh. Emotional Geographies. TASK FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS:

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Women’s Emotional Well-being in Shetland: Stories from the Field

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  1. Emotional Geographies Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh dthien@geo.ed.ac.uk Women’s Emotional Well-being in Shetland: Stories from the Field Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh

  2. Emotional Geographies • TASK FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS: Based on your reading of Arlie Hochschild’s article, discuss the relevance of a sociological approach to geographies of emotion, making use of the other approaches offered today as points of comparison.

  3. Emotional Geographies Acknowledge emotions "as ways of knowing, being and doing in the broadest sense; and using this to take geographical knowledges...beyond their more usual visual, textual and linguistic domains" (Anderson & Smith 2001, p. 8).

  4. Emotional Geographies • Key Concepts: Self (& Other) Emotion

  5. Emotional Geographies "Emotions are states, complexes of physically palpable, feeling-imbued, unconscious fantasy meanings, as well as practices” (Chodorow 1999, p. 155). Emotions are “complex manifestations of corporeal and psychological aspects of human beings which are simultaneously felt and performed as relations between self and world” (Laurier and Parr 2000, p. 98).

  6. Emotional Geographies • Key Influences: Anthropology Phenomenology Psychoanalysis Neuroscience

  7. Emotional Geographies • Anthropology • Contributions: A sustained attention to cultural practice and an influence on methodologies • Influences: Clifford, Cohen, Geertz, Michelle Rosaldo: "Feelings are not substances to be discovered in our blood but social practices organized by stories that we both enact and tell. They are structured by our forms of understanding" (Rosaldo 1984, p. 143) • Geographers: Hester Parr, Liz Bondi

  8. Emotional Geographies • Phenomenology • Definitions (see The Dictionary of Human Geography online) • Influences: Husserl, Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space: ‘to determine the human value of the sorts of space that may be grasped, that may be defended against adverse forces, the spaces we love’ (Bachelard 1994, p. xxxv). • Geographers: Joyce Davidson, Nichola Wood

  9. Emotional Geographies • Psychoanalytic theory • Definitions (Feminist Glossary) • Influences: Freud, Winnicott, Chodorow:"psychoanalysis is first and foremost an account and a theory of personal meaning" (1999, p. 129). • Geographers: Bondi, Philo & Parr, Pile, Rose, Sibley

  10. Emotional Geographies • Neuroscience • Definitions • Influences: Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens; Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land • BBC 4, Tuesday 9:10pm Who Am I Now? • Bodysong, Filmhouse, Sunday 5pm www.bodysong.com

  11. Emotional Geographies Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh dthien@geo.ed.ac.uk Women’s Emotional Well-being in Shetland: Stories from the Field Deborah Thien PhD Student University of Edinburgh

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