Auto-photographic study of everyday emotional geographies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10400150" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10400150 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4z81QI7EYv" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4z81QI7EYv</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12537" target="_blank" >10.1111/area.12537</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Auto-photographic study of everyday emotional geographies
Original language description
Recent developments in cultural geography have brought forth everyday life and emotions as critical categories for understanding place. Yet, the focus on everyday emotional geographies also presents methodological challenges. This paper argues that auto-photography is a particularly well-suited method to explore the intricate relations between everyday practices, emotions and the formation of places. Auto-photography combines participant-generated photographs and participants' interpretative narrations of these photographs. Our argument is based on auto-photographic research we conducted with 38 young women in Czechia in 2016. We asked participants to photograph everyday places that they associate with positive or negative emotions, or religious meanings, and to discuss their emotions in a following interview. We analysed participants' photographs together with their narrations. This analysis reveals the emotions and meanings participants attached to photographed places. We argue that the method of auto-photography helps understand the complexity of everyday emotional geographies that may not be possible through other geographical methods. The strength of auto-photography is its combination of visual representations and narratives, which help identify how ordinary everyday places without any apparent significance, such as a door or a staircase, might be sites of strong emotional intensity. The insights gained by analysing photographs and narratives together and in relation to one another produce an understanding of emotional bordering practices, anxieties and desires of place-making. Auto-photography thus provides multiple layers of visual and textual data that help understand the complexity of emotional geographies in mundane everyday places.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-08370S" target="_blank" >GA17-08370S: Post-secularism in Czechia: trends and regional differentiation</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Area
ISSN
0004-0894
e-ISSN
—
Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
752-762
UT code for WoS article
000494691500017
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85062368410