Auto-photographic study of everyday emotional geographies
Auto-photographic study of everyday emotional geographies
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DOI：
10.1111/area.12537
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Gokariksel, Banu
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作者：
Klingorova, Kamila;Gokariksel, Banu
文化地理学的最新发展提出了日常生活和情感作为理解地方的关键类别。然而，对日常情绪地理的关注也带来了方法上的挑战。本文认为，自动摄影是一个特别适合的方法来探索日常实践，情感和地方的形成之间的错综复杂的关系。自动摄影结合了参与者生成的照片和参与者对这些照片的解释性叙述。我们的论点是基于2016年我们在捷克对38名年轻女性进行的自动摄影研究。我们要求参与者拍摄他们与积极或消极情绪或宗教意义相关的日常场所，并在接下来的采访中讨论他们的情绪。我们分析了参与者的照片和他们的叙述。这种分析揭示了参与者对拍摄地点的情感和意义。我们认为，自动摄影的方法有助于理解日常情感地理的复杂性，这可能是不可能通过其他地理方法。自动摄影的优势在于它结合了视觉表现和叙事，这有助于识别没有任何明显意义的普通日常场所，如门或楼梯，可能是强烈情感强度的场所。通过分析照片和叙述以及彼此之间的关系所获得的见解，产生了对情感边界实践，焦虑和场所制作欲望的理解。因此，自动摄影提供了多层视觉和文本数据，有助于理解日常生活中情感地理的复杂性。
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.