After or beyond feeling? A consideration of affect and emotion in geography

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

“…A more nuanced understanding of affect, as the active experience of a becoming subject (Thien, 2005) is evident in several comments. While situated on the more interpretative side of the affect-emotion divide (perhaps in Lorimer's terms, more-thanemotional) it reflects on senses of buoyancy and weightlessness; I love it (swimming).…”

“…Bearing this in mind, and teasing out more fully this theoreticalempirical tension in NRT, debates on affect and emotion are a good starting point, though people sometimes use the terms interchangeably (Thien, 2005;Anderson, 2014). Affect is variously invoked as a body's capacity to act or be acted on and as a bodily becoming that pre-structures codified emotional responses to physical experiences (Dewsbury, 2003).…”

“…Affect is variously invoked as a body's capacity to act or be acted on and as a bodily becoming that pre-structures codified emotional responses to physical experiences (Dewsbury, 2003). Such philosophical definitions, avowedly distanced from concretised explanations or interpretations of everyday practice and encounter (such as feeling/ emotion), have been critiqued for a contradictory abstraction that makes their utilisation in grounded research difficult (Thien, 2005;Tolia-Kelly, 2006). Andrews et al (2014) suggest that NRT, considered in health and wellbeing terms, are loose enough to allow such tensions so that, 'the key non-representational idea of 'affect' is employed as a study framework, indicating how wellbeing arises initially as an energy and intensity through the physical interaction of human bodies and non-human objects, and is experienced as a feeling state' (Andrews et al, 2014, 211).…”

Feeling our way: academia, emotions and a politics of care

“…We want to discuss emotions as they are relevant without apologies; and to extend the legitimisation of emotions in processes of inward academic reflexivity outward, as vital for transformative politics based on care that would challenge the affective and material expansions of neoliberalism. Despite the increasing "emotional turn" across the social sciences, emotions are still too often depoliticised and (re)presented as something inherent to feminist, social, critical scholars, as if emotions do not affect the academic identity of others (Thien, 2005). But there are many (rarely published, often verbalised) narratives, interweaving with ours, that suggest otherwise: stories of senior academics across various disciplines anxious to sustain their position and meet the challenge of "leadership", "success" and "excellence" (Tijdink, Verbeke & Smulders, 2013); or of colleagues deeply worried that additional teaching workload will impair their research outputs, while simultaneously concerned about the lack of students to pay for their salaries (Geschwind & Broström, 2015).…”

Movilidad, utopías y lugares híbridos en Los Andes del sur de Chile

“…De esta manera, la mayor parte de los estudios realizados a la fecha exploran el lazo afectivo entre las personas y los ambientes y en la ubicación de la emoción tanto en los cuerpos como en los lugares (Bondi, 2005;Thien, 2005;Bosco, 2007). Y ha sido precisamente el lugar el concepto geográfico más desarrollado, por capturar los valores contenidos en la experiencia espacial cotidiana.…”