The editorial introduces the special issue on socio-environmental emotionalities. It stresses the importance of analysing the emotional and affective dimensions of shifting society–environment relations in the context of climate change and socio-ecological crises. Based on a political and spatial conceptualisation of emotions and affects, the editorial asks about their role in shaping power relations and subjectivities, while engaging with the rich contributions to the special issue.

The author offers a retrospective of her researching on borders in Palestine in the late 2010's experience, in the form of commented narrative reconstructions. The author describes and analyzes the processes of silenciation and the obstacles encountered in conducting research on Palestine. She intends to raise questions about what is build as legitimate or not within the academic space, reflecting on the power relations that act as structural brakes on the production of knowledge.

This article explores how metropolitan areas influence citizen mobilization in response to the negative effects of urban development. Based on a survey conducted in Grenoble, it analyzes the reaction of non-institutional collectives to the dynamics of metropolitanization. Drawing on pragmatic sociology, it shows how these collectives develop learning processes and spaces for self-education, where activist knowledge circulates and is constructed.

Based on an ongoing research-creation project, we take a look at practices that are emerging outside the traditional funeral framework: the scattering of human ashes in "natural" spaces. While the ultimate aim is to add to the body of scientific knowledge around death and ashes (practices, imaginaries, gestures, public policy, citizenship, etc.), to achieve this, it aims to use creative methods of collection and analysis, that can best reveal the full breadth of these experiences.

To understand how care standards affect everyday elderly home care, I conducted fieldwork in rural Germany. I found that strict guidelines on the time spent on care tasks impact the bodies of nurses and clients, as well as carers’ routines. Moreover, they alter the living spaces of the clients. All these findings suggest that digital technologies and standardized procedures can significantly influence care quality and everyday intimate encounters in the home space.

In view of the increasingly polarising and emotionally charged geopolitical debates of recent times of war, the present article aims to understand the relationship between emotions and geopolitical imaginations with reference to Sara Ahmed's Cultural Politics of Emotions and introduces a methodologically viable approach for a qualitative-interpretative analysis of the emotionalisations of geopolitical discourses.

This study examines the impact of climate change on Alpine climbing routes in the western European Alps. By identifying the routes most frequented by French mountain guides across various Alpine massifs, the research combines historical comparisons, contemporary surveys and detailed mapping of geomorphological and glaciological processes.