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To submit your proposal or discuss your idea further, please contact the series editor or Emerald Commissioning Editor:
Series Editor
Adrian Scribano: [email protected]
Commissioning Editor, Emerald Publishing
Katy Mathers: [email protected]
Calls for submissions
Emerald Studies in Global Emotions, Bodies and Sensing advances a multidisciplinary, multi-paradigmatic conversation on the centrality of emotions, bodies, and sensations, grounded in ongoing developments in sociology.
Aims and scope
Our access to the world is always embodied—across the individual body, the subjective body, and the social body. Sensations, perceptions, and emotions work together to form our sensibilities. From this embodied account of sensibility, in an era of rapid, interconnected change, emotions have become pivotal to trans-globalisation. Far from being merely private experiences, they structure markets, traverse politics, and act as drivers of subjectivation—the processes through which people understand and constitute themselves. The constant flow of emotionally charged information, images, and narratives shapes identities, senses of place, and relations with others, giving rise to solidarities, anxieties, and collective identities that cross traditional boundaries.
Love, hatred, joy, and sadness arise and dissipate with varying intensities depending on the contexts in which they occur; climates, settlement patterns, and housing structures inspire different emotions and modes of expression. We see persistent geopolitical and geocultural linkages among sensations, emotions, and sensibilities.
In this light, an inquiry into emotions and the politics of sensibilities emerges as a timely and necessary challenge. This series advances a multidisciplinary, multi-paradigmatic conversation on the centrality of emotions, bodies, and sensations, grounded in ongoing developments in sociology.
Published in partnership with RC 58 “Society and Emotions” of the International Sociological Association and in dialogue with several other international sociological associations/groups, Emerald Studies in Global Emotions, Bodies and Sensing has the following key objectives:
- Promote a sociology of emotions/feelings/affects/sensibilities on a trans-global scale and in dialogue across different approaches, disciplines, and geographies.
- Foster dialogue between theoretical traditions within the framework of the sociology of emotions, encouraging a methodologically pluralistic perspective.
- Intensify collaboration between inter-associative and institutional spaces that frame these discussions (International Sociological Association –ISA-, European Sociological Association –ESA-, Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología -ALAS-, Latin American Studies Association (LASA); International Network on the Sociology of Sensibilities –REDISS-).
- Make visible emerging issues where emotions constitute their central axes of structuration.
This title is aligned with our fairer society goal
We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.
