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Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-70-141-2015
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Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
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15 Apr 2015
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Can you feel the difference? Emotions as an analytical lens

M. Richter

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The paper focuses on emotions to analyse negotiations of belonging and experiences of difference. Emotional accounts such as childhood stories of second generation Spaniards in Switzerland serve as the empirical material. The analysis of this material exemplifies how such an analytical focus on emotions furthers our understanding of complex stories about social positioning along different axes of difference, complex ways of identification, and resistance to social role models.
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Affect, emotions and more-than-representational geographies