This forward-looking book examines emotional geographies as both a subdiscipline and a practice. Written collaboratively, the authors demonstrate the diverse ways in which emotions influence research, knowledge and everyday life, inviting readers to recognise emotions as a fundamental component of human understanding, actions and relationships

Walking in urban environments can foster a sense of belonging; for migrants, everyday urban walks can trigger emotional attachments, linking memories of their places of origin to new cities. Despite increasing recognition of the importance of mobility and its effect in migration studies, less scholarly attention remains on how belonging and urban walking are registered physiologically or how embodied and emotional responses shape experiences of migrant belonging in practice. This paper addresses this gap by integrating biosocial and digital approaches to explore the embodied dimensions of migrant urbanism in the context of settlement. Using biosensing wristbands, a smartphone qualitative data application, and walking interviews, we examine how migrant’s experiences of urban walking in Leicester (UK) and Stockholm (Sweden). Our analysis demonstrates how the meaning and significance of walking vary across different urban contexts, shaped by the socio-spatial conditions migrants encounter. It also highlights how walking cultivates spatial confidence over time, though experiences remain mediated by embodied difference, shaped through gender, migratory status, and urban inequality. By bringing together physiological, qualitative, and spatial perspectives within a biosocial approach, this paper extends existing debates on migrant belonging and the embodied dimensions of urban life.

For a recent issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography, I was asked to write a response to an article that examined the use of the word ‘post’ as a heuristic to better understand places associated with ‘post’ ascriptions—in the case of the original article, post-apartheid (Houssay-Holzschuch, 2021). The post anchors a present-day entity to the past; it does so by opening and holding open a space of hope. This hopeful space is cruelly optimistic (cf. Berlant, 2011); it tethers identities to places and events of the past, while also carrying the promise of unattachment (Anderson et al., 2023). I concluded my response with a provocation drawn from Doreen Massey’s (1999) scholarship on the space -time regime, by asking: “Who uses that vocabulary mostpowerfully and to what effect?” (Drozdzewski, 2021: 5) Thoughts on that question comprise the subject matter of this _Essay—what can the ‘post’ do? To think-with the power and effect of the ‘post,’ I draw from a range of examples: (post)conflict, (post)war, (post)Socialist, (post)national, and (post)disaster. Then, using case study examples from Poland, Germany, and Australia, I explore the politics of identity, place, and memory across spatial and temporal contexts to show how the post functions powerfully as a lexicon, while being simultaneously sanguine and banal in its application.

Rarely do academics reveal the ‘backend’ of their research; the hours of labour invested into question generation, ethics compliance, transcription, translation, and data analysis, and in our case, coding. Further, when working collaboratively, the conversations that occur between collaborators seldom appear in final publications either. The development of the mobile application QualNotes, provided a productive digital space for collaboration across disciplines. In this paper, we use three vignettes to explicate the ‘backend’ of the development of that mobile application. We chart howour collaborative cross-disciplinary ethnography revealed the generative potential of thinking-with the digital and across disciplinary divides. This paper's contribution is in revealing ‘how’ we work using our disciplinary expertise, but at the same time at the edges of those disciplines too, where we contest, argue, adapt, understand, and, where we learn.

Memory embeds itself in Kraków, Poland, through both visible and subtle means, particularly in the Planty parkland surrounding the Old Town. Rich with monuments and landscape designs, this area commemorates some personalities from the Romantic Era, a crucial period for Polish national identity. Monuments and cultural markers celebrate figures and events from this era, reminding passers-by of Poland’s historical resilience. While some memory sites are overt, others blend into the everyday landscape, like old trees or historical paths, remaining unnoticed yet significant. The presence of Polish language inscriptions highlights a history of resistance against cultural suppression. Through an emplaced survey, I found that these embedded memories foster a continuous connection to the past, reinforcing Polish national identity. The Planty’s visible and subtle markers ensure that historical narratives remain a vibrant part of Kraków’s contemporary cultural landscape.

This chapter examines the interlinkages between memory and migration by focusing on how the preconditions prompting migration have bearing on the types of cultural memories (re)produced by migrants in diaspora. Herein, the chapter examines the intersecting use of the homeland language postmigration, and how it reveals connections between cultural memory and everyday places postmigration; cultural memories crisscross into and become part of the everyday vernacular of the migrants’ narratives. By using language as an exemplar of the nexus between memory and migration, the focus shifts from memory objects and materialities used to maintain cultural memory postmigraton, to how memory is enacted through the body, via language in various postmigration contexts and how it activates a schematic narrative template. Influencing (re)productions of cultural memory are experiences of dislocation and trauma, as well as politics of migration and memory.

The workshop is dedicated to empowering participants to better understanding the biophysical landscape using the ‘QualNotes’ App. The App facilitates qualitative and collaborative field data collection. It is of particular interest to HCI researchers working with Apps or data that are reactive to the physical environment, such as geolocated, outdoor mixed reality Apps (PokemonGo), data collection with input from wearables that might be mapped and so on, as well as educators interested in teaching digital methods.

In this article, drawing from a feminist epistemology, we engage in an exercise of encounter and navigation as we critically reflect on the ethical practices undertaken during research with vulnerable people. That research comprised engaging Sri Lankan refugees in an oral and visual research method that included walking through and filming their homes, followed by an in-depth interview. The research process was an intimate and emotional exploration of home, identity, and migration, for both the participants and doctoral researcher. The research revealed ethical challenges not captured in the project’s procedural ethics application. These ethical challenges were often navigated ‘in the moment’ and through ongoing consultation and dialogues with the doctoral supervisor. By drawing on these experiences, we underscore the importance of reflexivity and the role of the doctoral researcher-supervisor relationship in guiding an ethics of care approach.