Feeling, power and method: feminist perspectives from a research agenda for emotional geographies

This seminar introduces A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies and reflects on how emotional geographies contribute to feminist geographical scholarship.

The book explores how emotions shape knowledge production, research relationships, and everyday spatial experience, foregrounding questions of power, care, embodiment, and positionality.

In this session, we discuss how emotional approaches help us think through feminist concerns including inequality, vulnerability, and relational ethics, while also opening methodological possibilities for research practice.

Drawing on key chapters from the book, we reflect on how emotional geographies can support more situated, reflexive, and politically attentive forms of scholarship, and consider future directions for feminist research engaging with emotion, affect, and lived experience.

About the speakers

Danielle Drozdzewski is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on emotional and memory geographies, examining how feelings, place, and identity intersect across everyday and political contexts.

Natasha A. Webster is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden. Her work explores emotional and relational geographies, with interests in work, labour and feminist approaches to social change.

Tess Osborne is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. Her research engages with emotional and digital geographies, mobility, and everyday life, with a particular interest in relational approaches to digital and embodied experience.

Please note: The views of our speakers do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society.

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