Highlights ► We study the mobilities of poverty of poor single mothers in San Francisco. ► Emotions can be integrated into the framework of time geography. ► While being mobile both spatio-temporal and emotional boundaries are relevant. ► Emotions are managed by negotiating contacts by border-setting attributes. ► Emotions are managed by avoidance of public transport, routes, places and times.

    Abstract Although there is ample evidence that the way we feel and anticipate feeling in certain situations or places can assert great influence on our behavior, this emotional component of the space–time path has for the most part remained external to time geographical analyses. Working from within a time geographical framework, this paper shows that spatio-temporal and emotional boundaries are both relevant and interacting while persons travel their paths through time and space. To that purpose we suggest a reinterpretation of authority constraints and to take into account the biological and cultural expressions of individuals. The rather static conceptualizations of the poverty–context relationship in poverty studies could benefit from an emotionally sensitive time geography. We draw from a small case study of low-income single mothers in San Francisco, California.


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    Title :

    Bringing emotions to time geography: the case of mobilities of poverty


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    Publication date :

    2012-01-01


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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