Smith - Emotional Geographies

EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES

Edited by

JOYCE DAVIDSON
Queens University, Ontario, Canada

LIZ BONDI
Edinburgh University, UK

MICK SMITH
Queens University, Ontario, Canada

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Emotional geographies

1.Spatial behavior 2.Emotional conditioning 3.Emotions 4.Human geography
I.Davidson, Joyce, 1971- II.Bondi, L. (Liz) III.Smith, Mick, 1961
304.2

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005924870

ISBN 978 0 7546 4375 3 (hbk)
ISBN 978 0 7546 7107 7 (pbk)
ISBN 978 1 3155 7924 5 (ebk)

Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith

Sara M. Morris and Carol Thomas

Marion Collis

Christine Milligan, Amanda Bingley and Anthony Gatrell

Jennie Germann Molz

John Urry

Hester Parr, Chris Philo and Nicola Burns

David Conradson

Phil Hubbard

Jenny Hockey, Bridget Penhale and David Sibley

Colleen Heenan

Mark Paterson

Mike Hepworth

Deborah Thien

Owain Jones

Mick Smith

Liz Bondi

Amanda Bingley is a Research Associate in the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University. Following her doctoral research on the influence of gender on landscape perception she has continued to focus on the relationship between mental health and well-being and place. Amanda is currently involved in Palliative Care research with the International Observatory on End of Life Care. She has published in Social and Cultural Geography, Social Science and Medicine and is co-author of the book Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Informed by her longstanding involvement in feminist geography, her current research focuses on counselling and psychotherapy as socio-spatial practices, and on emotional geographies. Founding editor of the journal Gender, Place and Culture, she has published chapters in several edited collections, and numerous journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A, Progress in Human Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, and Society and Space. She is coauthor of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), and co-editor (with Joyce Davidson) of a special issue of Gender, Place and Culture (2004, 11: 3) on emotional geographies and co-editor (with Nina Laurie, of a special issue of Antipode (2005, forthcoming) on professionalisation, political action and neo-liberalism.

Nicola Burns is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sentencing Research, Law School, University of Strathclyde. Since completing her doctoral research on the experiences of disabled people in the housing system, Nicola has worked on a variety of research projects including an Economic and Social Research Council project looking into the experiences of people with mental health problems in remote rural communities with Hester Parr and Chris Philo. Her research interests include housing inequality, disability, qualitative research methods and the criminal justice system.

Marion Collis is a Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Australia. She works at the universitys Gippsland Campus in regional Victoria where she heads a small research unit which undertakes applied social and community research with a regional/local focus. Informed by a feminist sociology, her research interests include womens mental and reproductive health, and the impact of shiftwork on marital relationships and family life. She teaches the Sociology of Health and Illness, Womens Sociology and the Sociology of Reproduction.

David Conradson is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. Following his doctoral work on voluntary welfare organisations, which included examination of the experiential texture of various service spaces, he has become interested in notions of therapeutic environment and spacings of subjectivity more generally. His work on these matters has been published in Environment and Planning A, Social and Cultural Geography and Health and Place. He has edited a special issue of Social and Cultural Geography on Geographies of Care (2003, 4: 4) and is co-editor, with Christine Milligan, of a forthcoming volume entitled Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance (Policy Press, 2006).

Joyce Davidson is Assistant Professor of Geography at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. Following her UK based doctoral research on agoraphobia, which formed the basis of Phobic Geographies (Ashgate, 2003), she has developed a research and teaching programme focused around geographies of health, embodiment and emotion. Organiser of the first interdisciplinary conference on Emotional Geographies (Lancaster University, September 2002) she has co-edited special issues on this subject for Gender, Place and Culture (with Liz Bondi, 2004, 11: 3) and Social and Cultural Geography (with Christine Milligan, 2004, 5: 4). She has published in sociology and philosophy as well as geography journals, and is co-author of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

Anthony Gatrell is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University. For eight years he was Director of the Institute for Health Research, which was created in 1996. He also directed, for four years (2001-04), Health R&D NoW, the NHS R&D Support Unit in North-West England (a collaboration between Lancaster, Liverpool and Salford Universities). His research interests lie primarily in geographical epidemiology and the geography of health care provision, but with an underlying interest in health inequalities. He published Geographies of Health: an Introduction, Blackwell, 2002 and is the author or editor of three other books: GIS and Health, Taylor and Francis, 1998 edited with Markku Loytonen; Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Addison Wesley Longman, 1995 co-authored with Trevor Bailey; and