Emotional states: sites and spaces of affective governance

Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial.

Bringing recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with political concerns, contemporary issues of governance and the development and implementation of social policy, this book sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of both emotional states of governance and governing emotional states.