Emotional geographies thus far: politics, performativity, movement and technology

Emotions, and their intersections in the spaces and places of our everyday lives, matter, especially because these emotions very often provide us with reminders of the past, mediate our present and shape the future. This research agenda continues the now consistent conceptual and method-based engagement of emotional geographies, discussing how and why emotions matter, while also providing a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and place. These objectives are broadly conceived and seek to encourage investigations of feelings, encounter and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. This introductory chapter charts how we, as authors, have navigated creating and sustaining emotional geographies through writing collaboratively and with close cognisance of our own positions. We identify four key opening themes – emotion(al) politics, emotions and performativity, emotions and movement, and emotion(al) technologies – that we think both showcase the intersections of emotional geographies to everyday life and cognate scholarship, but which also permeate through the following chapters too.