Geography and ethics II: Emotions and morality

2000

Area, 2005

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2005

The current upsurge of interest in emotions within geography has the potential to contribute to critical perspectives that question conventional limits to scholarship. Three precursors of emotional geographies are discussed in this context (humanistic, feminist and non-representational geographies). Connections between emotional geographies and psychotherapy are explored with a view to resisting the equation of emotion with individualised subjective experience, and developing situated, relational perspectives.

Area, 2006

In a recent review article, Jeff Popke (2006, p. 510) calls for a ‘more direct engagement with theories of ethics and responsibility’ on the part of human geographers, and for a reinscription of the social as a site of ethics and responsibility. This requires that we also continue to develop ways of thinking through our responsibilities toward unseen others—both unseen neighbours and distant others—and to cultivate a renewed sense of social interconnectedness. Popke suggests that a feminist-inspired ethic of care might be instrumental in developing this expanded, relational and collective vision of the social, which is particularly prescient given the contemporary economic downturn throughout the globe. Thus, as the ‘moral turn’ in geography continues to evolve, this special issue seeks to bring together geographers working within feminist or feminist-inspired frameworks, and with a shared interest in the changing geographies of ethics, responsibility and care. The collection of papers has its origins in conference sessions on Care-full Geographies, organised by the Guest Editors at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in 2007. In this editorial we seek to position the papers within broader debates about care, responsibility and ethics that have emerged in geography and the wider social sciences in recent years, and to highlight the key issues that have framed these debates.

The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024

Affective dynamics shape spatial practices and social relations. Various strands in human geography have contributed to the study of affect, emphasizing its irreducibility to discourse and conscious understanding. This entry provides a comprehensive review of the role of affect in geographical research. It addresses the variety of expressions of affect that geographers have studied in different spatial contexts, discusses historical shifts in geographic research on affect, and traces the theoretical references, methodological directions, key concepts, and empirical fields of affective geographies. Furthermore, the entry points to the critical implications of affective geographies as well as to the promises and tensions that emanate from geographical research with and on affects.