Wandering Emotions
Wandering Emotions
Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES022 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
WG08 Society and Emotions (host committee) Language: English and Spanish
Classical and contemporary sociology have dealt with mobility, nomadism and wandering (Ib Jaldún, Marx-Engels, G. Simmel, M. Weber, R. E. Park, A. Schütz, N. Elías, M. Maffesoli, Z. Bauman, E . Goffman, E. Bericat...). However, few works have been dedicated to analyzing emotions in a context of mobility, in a peculiar and transitory situation that, logically, conditions the emotions displayed in those moments, intensifying their ephemeral and contingent nature in an extraordinary way.
In this sense, from the perspective of most sociological views, wandering emotions are characterized by ambivalence since they are motivated by the joy of living or by pain; for freedom or necessity -without forgetting chance-; by the search for adventure or by the vital impulse to survive; by the desire to return to origin or integration into the destination; for order and chaos; for rooting and uprooting; and, in short, for the nomadic and the sedentary.
The social types that have traditionally been considered wandering are from a tragic point of view and out of necessity and from a more playful free or adventurous perspective.
The ISA congress in Rabat, therefore, opens up the possibility of presenting papers referring to these wandering social types and the emotions they display during the space-time transit they experience. Thus, we call to share works on wandering emotions - joy, sadness, nostalgia, shame, pain, fear, loneliness, solidarity, empathy... - of immigrants, exiles, refugees, homeless, travelers, tourists, artist and any other itinerant persons.
In this sense, from the perspective of most sociological views, wandering emotions are characterized by ambivalence since they are motivated by the joy of living or by pain; for freedom or necessity -without forgetting chance-; by the search for adventure or by the vital impulse to survive; by the desire to return to origin or integration into the destination; for order and chaos; for rooting and uprooting; and, in short, for the nomadic and the sedentary.
The social types that have traditionally been considered wandering are from a tragic point of view and out of necessity and from a more playful free or adventurous perspective.
The ISA congress in Rabat, therefore, opens up the possibility of presenting papers referring to these wandering social types and the emotions they display during the space-time transit they experience. Thus, we call to share works on wandering emotions - joy, sadness, nostalgia, shame, pain, fear, loneliness, solidarity, empathy... - of immigrants, exiles, refugees, homeless, travelers, tourists, artist and any other itinerant persons.
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