Bodies, Representations, Situations, Practices

Qualitative Research on Affect, Emotion and Feeling

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8095461
AutoresMartin Willis (0000-0002-5604-0779, University of East London, autor correspondente), John Cromby (0000-0002-3713-3320, University of Leicester)
Ano2019
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas1-12
Data de publicação2019-08-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14780887.2019.1656361
OpenAlexW2969255944
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas20

We introduce this special issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology by discussing four themes which, in our view, characterise the collective significance of the papers in this special issue. Even in highlighting these thematic similarities, however, we point to important differences in their manifestation across different papers. In discussing bodies, we highlight an underexplored distinction between the body as ground of experience and the body as the enabler of experience. We also draw attention to three issues relating to (linguistic) representations of feelings, emotions and affect: the problem of ineffability; the role of naming feeling; and how to methodologically and analytically account for differences in the ways that feelings are talked about and named. Regarding situatedness in space and time, we note at least four analytical positions, which frame and reveal different aspects of affective phenomena. Finally, with respect to affective practices we identify two quite different approaches that, whilst sharing some characteristics, are different enough to warrant further specification when researchers deploy this term. Whilst welcoming the apparent trend away from purely language-based methods, we also offer some suggestions for how researchers can move further down this path. Nonetheless qualitative research on feeling, affect and emotion is in fine fettle. As the contributions attest, the time is ripe for this special issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology

Affect (linguistics · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Intersubjectivity · Linguistics · Narrative · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Warrant · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Communication · Social Psychology