Mick Smith, Joyce Davidson, Laura Cameron and Liz Bondi (eds.) 2009: Emotion, Place and Culture. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate.

摘要

We all have emotions. We fall in and out of love, we laugh, we mourn, are surprised or bored. People always experience emotions. There is no human perception that does not have an affective tonality. Every practice of everyday life is accompanied by feelings — be it of aversion, joy, indulgence, anger, desire, tranquillity or monotony. Thus, this edited collection on the multiple relations and relatedness between 'emotion, place and culture' is most welcome and, indeed, urgently needed in literature. As Henri Lefebvre has attentively observed, during modernity, the production of abstract space has fostered a reductionist perspective on life and space in social science, one full of reason and emptied of emotions.