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Article Excerpt
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Joyce DAVIDSON, LIZ BONDI, and MICK SMITH. xiii and 258 pp.; diagrs., ills., bibliog., index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780754643753; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9780754671077.
In recent years a handful of geographers have begun to engage in research that explicitly queries emotion in human geographies and the research process. This multidisciplinary volume is the first attempt to understand the spatiality of emotions in a variety of social scales and contexts. It includes disciplinary perspectives ranging from sociology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural and environmental studies to nursing. The topics covered span scales from the global to the individual. Among them are: global franchises and travelers' identities, regional emotions, memory associated with landscape, ecologies of place, the place of dying, and therapeutic touch. This diversity underscores the ubiquity of the sociospatial attributes of emotion....
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