Pub Date : 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101143
Yifan Jin
Cross-regional migration has become a defining reality for many Chinese families, reshaping their structures and relationships. This mobility has consequently fueled ongoing discussions about home-making in transitory spaces. This study examines how domestic workers navigate home-making within dual home spaces, employing in-depth interviews and participant observation to capture the intricate and complex realities they face daily. Findings reveal that both the employer's home and the rural home encompass distinct but interconnected material and emotional dimensions of home-making. The differences in domestic workers' roles, responsibilities, and obligations across these spaces lead to varied home-making strategies that encompass not only material management but also relational adjustment, emotional maintenance, and identity negotiation. By presenting vivid cases, this study highlights the lived emotional experiences of this migrant group and critically examines the evolving significance of family bonds, identity, and emotional work within the unique context of social transformation and migration in China.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-30DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101142
Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi
This study examines how shame operates within the caporalato system in southern Italy, influencing the exploitation of migrant labor and stifling resistance. Drawing on the narratives of migrant workers from West Africa and other regions, the research explores how shame functions not only as a consequence of oppression, but also as a mechanism that reinforces conformity and sustains systemic control. Through narrative analysis, the study reveals that shame can result from unmet family expectations, fear of social judgment, and structural inequalities. This fosters isolation and discourages solidarity. Gender-specific vulnerabilities further intensify emotional submissiveness, particularly among women who are economically marginalized and stigmatized. Findings reveal that shame perpetuates subjugation and hinders the capacity for resistance, thus reinforcing systemic exploitation. Understanding and addressing these emotional dynamics is essential to dismantling oppressive labor structures.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101132
Diana Painca, Mona-Brigitte Arhire
Research into the interplay between translation and emotion has suggested that transferring texts from one language into another represents not only a cognitive process but also an emotional one (Hubscher-Davidson, 2017; Koskinen, 2020). Drawing on this claim, my paper focuses on the translation of emotionality in communist-era letters, adding thus a historical perspective to the “affective turn” in Translation Studies (Hubscher-Davidson, 2021). Employing an autoethnographic approach, I will mobilize my personal experiences to reflect on my affects in translation and on the translation of affects. To this end, I focus on my translation from Romanian into English of five letters sent from communist Romania to Radio Free Europe (RFE) in Munich in the 1980s. They are extracted from the book Ultimul deceniu comunist: scrisori către Radio Europa Liberă, 1986–1989, vol II (2014; The Last Communist Decade: Letters to Radio Free Europe, 1986–1989). My analysis of the translated corpus engages with the concepts of ‘affective labour’ (Koskinen, 2020) and ‘affective agency’ (Finn, 2013) to reflect on the problematics of emotions in translation. The results underline the effectiveness and adequacy of a literal strategy that remains close to the cadences and emotional vibrations of the letters.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101130
Páraic Kerrigan , Maria Pramaggiore
On St. Patrick's Day in 1979, the Hirschfeld Centre opened its doors at 10 Fownes St in Dublin and became one of the most significant institutions in queer Irish history. Despite operating for only eight years, the political, social and cultural activities of the Hirschfeld became an important site for the development of queer Irish culture. In this article, we argue that, in the decades since its closure after a fire in 1987, the Hirschfeld has functioned as a site of individual and collective remembering, focusing the often-competing memories of people who spent time there and demonstrating the potentially contentious fault lines that can inform memory, identity and place. Drawing upon interviews with community members who experienced the Hirschfeld Centre during its operation, the research team developed a strategy of ‘close and distant listening'. The approach reflected the practical necessity of differing geographical locations and yet, at the same time, rhymed with the subject matter of the research: disjunctive temporalities and dislocated spatialities. The research team's methodology points toward the diversity of ways to recognize emotions associated with remembering queer spaces and offers an ethical approach acknowledging the researchers' affective and geographical positionality.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101131
Zoë O'Reilly
Research has shown that refugee populations, as with many other ‘subjects’ of research, who have the most to gain, and lose, from research conducted about them, are excluded from shaping this research. Beyond this, it has been argued that research on forced migration can reinforce oppressive and colonial power structures through objectifying and dehumanising the experiences of people who are forced to migrate. This reflective article explores the personal discomfort of a white European researcher in the field of forced migration and sense of complicity in reinforcing colonial power structures, as well as the challenges of advancing an anti-colonial agenda in refugee-related research. More specifically, I reflect on this ethical and emotive dilemma in relation to an ongoing collaborative project carried out with the Scottish Irish Migration Initiative, which aims to ‘build an ethical research culture’ in refugee-related research through challenging and reimagining collaborative practices in this field of research. The article looks at the importance of ‘staying with the trouble’: acknowledging and sitting with these discomforts and challenges, but also using them as tools to better understand oppressive power dynamics and systemic barriers in order to advance a more ethical research culture in refugee-related research.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101128
Tran Mai Huong , Mai Phuc Thinh
This paper explores the phenomenon of young urban dwellers in contemporary Vietnam voluntarily relocating to rural farms as a form of affective life-making rather than economic migration or return. Drawing on narrative ethnographic data from two farm communities in mountainous areas in Gia Lai and Da Lat, the study conceptualizes these urban-to-rural transitions as aspirational reorientations shaped by emotional exhaustion, familial disconnection, and desires for a slower, more meaningful life. Building on de Haas's aspiration–capabilities framework and Antonsich's notion of belonging as becoming, the analysis frames rural relocation as a dynamic process of negotiating aspirations, enacting affective labor, and experimenting with new modes of belonging. Practices such as caregiving, storytelling, and slow daily routines emerge as strategies to reclaim agency and reconfigure selfhood outside normative urban trajectories. These affective strategies reflect broader emotional realignments that underpin youth disengagement from dominant urban futures. The paper contributes to emerging debates on post-growth youth mobility and affective geographies by centering the emotional logics that underlie voluntary rural transitions in the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101129
Soohyung Hur
Evoking emotions such as empathy has been an effective strategy for social movements to garner public support. Mobilizing emotional geopolitics, this article examines the work emotions are expected to play and indeed do in spaces for transnational solidarity against geopolitical violence. I examine the ‘Butterfly Peace Trips’ which are organized by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, a well-established organization in South Korea seeking redress for Korean survivors of wartime sexual slavery (otherwise known as ‘comfort women’). In these trips, Korean supporters of the ‘comfort women’ movement visit sites in Vietnam that memorialize the Vietnam War and meet the survivors. Interviews with organizers and participants and content analysis results reveal that the Peace Trips are designed to elicit visceral feelings that motivate participants to be involved with the redress movement. Findings also show that even emotions that facilitate solidarity, such as guilt, love, and familiarity, can inadvertently reify geopolitical logics while depoliticizing power structures. Surprisingly, emotions that might not neatly translate into action, such as dread, can productively challenge taken-for-granted discourses in geopolitics. Thus, I argue that emotional experiences do not provide a straightforward path for redressing war violence but help expose the banal logics of war-making.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101127
Hande Eslen-Ziya , Alberta Giorgi
This study delves into the complex emotional responses of academics subjected to online violence, presenting a comprehensive exploration of this pervasive issue. Leveraging semi-structured individual interviews with eleven academics – from diverse academic levels and institutions in Europe and the United States – who reported experiencing online attacks, our research explains the intricate nature of their emotional experiences. The interviews offered insights into participants' coping strategies, emotional states during and after incidents, and the impact of these emotions on decision-making processes. Integrating sociological work on feeling and expression rules, and emotional work, with perspectives specifically focusing on gender, work, and emotions, our study sheds light on how academics encountered a phase of uncertainty in established conduct and emotional norms while navigating online harassment. This research then contributes a nuanced understanding of the emotional landscapes of academics facing online harassment, shedding light on coping mechanisms, emotional complexities, and ethical considerations inherent in this domain.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101126
Yuan Ma
This paper investigates the body's response to intentional visual deprivation through the experimental practice of “dark running.” Employing a combined methodology of autoethnography and sensory ethnography, the study explores how non-visual senses are mobilised to reconstruct perceptual systems, coordinate bodily movement, and generate new spatial meanings. To analyse this process, the research proposes an ecological framework of sensory reconfiguration that integrates three interrelated dimensions: embodied difference, affective modulation, and habituation. The findings demonstrate that non-visual perception does not operate as a linear substitute for vision; rather, it emerges as a contingent, context-specific strategy shaped by bodily diversity and affective states. Affect functions as a central regulator of sensory prioritisation and risk assessment, while habituation gradually transforms unfamiliar sensations into embodied and structured forms of meaning. The study argues that sensory practices under visual deprivation critically challenge visual hegemony and expose the generative potential of multisensory coordination. By foregrounding the body's adaptive and creative capacities, this research offers a critical perspective to the fields of sensory studies, embodied phenomenology, and non-visual movement practices.
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Drawing from feminist and social geography perspectives, this article examines how intimate partner violence (IPV) reshapes the meaning of home for women who have experienced abuse. Arguing that IPV transforms the home in more complex ways than previous studies have shown, the article seeks to bring conceptualization of trauma into closer dialogue with feminist analysis of the space of the home.
Findings from a qualitative study conducted in Chile reveal two interconnected dynamics. First, IPV survivors describe their homes as spaces of coercion where perpetrators exert surveillance and control, leading to emotional and material consequences. Second, the study highlights a crucial process of spatial and emotional recovery after IPV. Once separated from their aggressors, women redefine their homes as spaces of resistance and healing. Through everyday acts of agency and resistance, they reclaim domestic spaces as places of security and self-determination. Ultimately, while IPV survivors frequently endure precarious living conditions after leaving abusive relationships, their ability to reconstruct a sense of home emerges as a critical strategy for empowerment. These newly built or reclaimed spaces, serve as fortresses of autonomy, allowing women to regain control over their lives and reestablish a sense of belonging.
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