Social geography II: Space and Sociality

Ho, Elaine Lynn‐Ee

doi:10.1177/03091325221103601

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“…In other words, the spatiotemporal registers of the emotionstogether with affective intensitiesmake up who we are in the world in both intimate and collective ways. This progress report on the emotions and affective spatialities synthesises the deliberations in my two earlier progress reports on time and temporality, and space and sociality (Ho, 2021(Ho, , 2022. The report concludes by reflecting on what it means to engage in processes of 'caring-with' (Askins and Blazek, 2017) as we inhabit academia.…”

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“…As this report shows, social geographers addressing the emotions and affect in recent years have situated their analyses in intersubjective relations, collectively felt intensities and the socio-spatial hierarchies of power in our social worlds instead. While continuing to foreground space, place and scale, some of them have also engaged new spatial vocabularies (see Ho, 2022) in their study of how the emotions and affect are constitutive of sociality.…”

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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The emotions and the affective qualities of space (i.e. affective spatialities) have featured prominently in social geography research. This report discusses how recent studies have taken seriously earlier critiques of affect theory, foregrounding intersubjective relations, collectives and the socio-spatial hierarchies of power instead. The emotions can be mobilised to serve entrenched interests or challenge power hierarchies in social life, including through digitally mediated spaces. Whether in real or digital life, emotional labour and emotion work are constitutive of temporality, sociality and spatiality. The report concludes by reflecting on what ‘caring-with’ the emotions means for our institutions and the international academy.

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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Conceptually, the paper demonstrates how care assemblages and social infrastructures work in tandem to modulate older adults' webs of care dynamically. This endeavour bridges the distinct literatures that draw on either assemblage or infrastructural approaches to understand social life (e.g., Huff & Cotte, 2016;Power, 2019 for the former; Latham & Layton, 2020, 2022 for the latter). In contradistinction to literature that emphasises personal agency, this paper also acknowledges the potential limits to agency when it is set in the context of the choices made by others.…”

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“…The term ‘social infrastructure’ (Latham & Layton, 2022; McFarlane & Silver, 2017) has been used to capture how ‘physical design, objects, services, programs, events and processes come together to constitute social life’ (Ho, 2022). For example, parks, schools and community spaces make up the social infrastructure of sports and fitness practices that contribute to health, wellbeing and connectedness (Latham & Layton, 2020), while the public library can be seen as a social infrastructure in which activities such as lunch meetings, cultural events and classes are held to foster community interactions.…”

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Social infrastructures and older adults' webs of care: COVID‐19 as spatial breach

Ho,

Gao,

Lim

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper argues that the spatial restrictions and social distancing measures which older adults experienced during COVID‐19 can be interpreted as a spatial breach in their webs of care, impacting their ability to connect socially with others through formal and informal social infrastructures. Drawing on a qualitative study of 50 older adults in Singapore (which is part of a wider mixed‐methods project consisting of 1199 participants), the paper shows how spatial breaches manifest as tension points in the older adults' webs of care. The paper highlights the paradoxical and ageist impacts of vulnerability tropes that emphasise the alleged universal vulnerability of older adults to the coronavirus. It provides further insights on why some tension points in the older adults' webs of care become resolved through adjustments while others remain unresolved. This analysis furthers our understanding of how older adults cope with the social disconnection that may happen during spatial breaches, especially when it is due to the choices of others to withdraw socially. Conceptually, the paper demonstrates how care assemblages and social infrastructures work in tandem to modulate the older adults' webs of care dynamically. The paper situates social infrastructures as key resource components in the webs of care of older adults, functioning as formal or informal platforms through which they access material, financial or emotional resources. Importantly, the paper shows how particular social infrastructures may become prominent or recede in one's webs of care as the person's care assemblages dynamically adjust to personal circumstances and relationships. In doing so, the paper bridges hitherto distinct literatures on how social infrastructures and assemblages are used to understand social life.

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“…There is a long standing ethos in geography of the pursuit of social justice (for example, in this journal: Ho, 2022; Hopkins, 2021; Israel and Frenkel, 2018). Yet, in exploring the ‘unfair outcomes that result from both social processes and institutional decision-making’ (Hopkins, 2021: 382), the general focus is on oppression and discrimination that result in inequality, with privilege barely addressed as an entry point.…”

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Towards geographies of privileged migration: An intersectional perspective

Duplan

Cranston

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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While geography has traditionally ‘looked down’ in the search for social justice, a recent trend in the social sciences has argued for thinking through privilege. Taking this call seriously, this paper draws on feminist scholarship and uses intersectionality to demonstrate that reflections about privilege are imperative in the pursuit of social justice. Through laying the groundwork for a theorisation of privilege within and beyond migration geographies, we use transnational circulation, as one of the – unquestioned and taken for granted – characteristics of elites, arguing that an understanding of privilege in migration is critical to understanding and combatting inequalities and injustices. This leads us to argue for the need to explore privilege in relation to its others, such as precarity and vulnerability. We conclude by advancing a research agenda on privilege in (migration) geography that draws upon a feminist ethics of responsibility.

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Social geography II: Space and Sociality

Cited by 7 publications

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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

Social infrastructures and older adults' webs of care: COVID‐19 as spatial breach

Towards geographies of privileged migration: An intersectional perspective

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