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CFP RGS-IBG 2023 'Emotional Geographies and the Digital'

  • 1.  CFP RGS-IBG 2023 'Emotional Geographies and the Digital'

    Posted 02-20-2023 05:32

    Emotional geographies and the digital

    Session Convenors:

    Tess Osborne, University of Leicester

    Natasha Webster, Örebro University

    Danielle Drozdzewski, Stockholm University

     

    The 'digital' enmeshes in everyday life to the extent that there are few aspects of society (cultural, material, economic) that have not been influenced by digital technologies. The ongoing processes and consequences of digitalisation not only shape how we live and work, but also how we feel, encounter and express (our) emotion(s) - 'people become aware of their emotional and affective memories by technologies' (Van Dijck, 2007:358). Digital spaces can evoke feelings of belonging, care or comfort (e.g. Frazer et al 2022; Byron 2020), and/or they can be sites of violence causing terror and hurt (e.g. Hall et al. 2023; Doboš 2022). Concomitantly, they can proxy as a mediation for labour and social activities and evoke physical and mental exhaustion or rejuvenation (e.g. Roelofsen & Minca, 2018; Kouhia 2020). However, the complexities of emotional geographies in, from and through the digital remains under explored alongside a greater focus on the range of practices and norms that are created, implemented and maintained in a variety of digital fora.

    This session brings together the scholarship on geographies of emotion with the specific intention of situating the discussion on/in the ongoing digital turn in geography. As such, we will explore the entanglements and tensions between the emotional and the digital, whilst also demonstrating the scholarly potential of digital emotional geographies.

    Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

    • Digitalising affect, atmosphere and encounter
    • The emotional geographies of digital identities and representation
    • Emotion geographies of work and working life in a digitised world
    • The emotional geographies of digital inequalities and control
    • The role of digital technologies in the production and consumption of emotional worlds and atmospheres
    • Emotional geographies of digital activities such as hobbies, groups, and sport
    • The role of digital in the emotions of homemaking, migration, and place-making

    We welcome papers that engage with these themes across diverse spatialities and that think-with innovative empirical, methodological and theoretical contexts to advance emotional geographies within the digital world. This session may be developed into a special issue at Emotion, Space and Society and session participants may have the opportunity to develop their work as a paper for the issue.

    Please send a 250 word abstract (with your name, affiliation, and contact details) to Tess Osborne (t.osborne@leicester.ac.uk), Natasha Webster (natasha.webster@oru.se), and Danielle Drozdzewski (danielle.drozdzewski@humangeo.su.se) by Friday, 10 March 2023. 

     



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    Danielle Drozdzewski
    danielle.drozdzewski@humangeo.su.se
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