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Introduction: Migration affects people’s lives, including their behaviours which impact both physical and mental health. Anxiety and depressive symptoms in migrants have been linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes associated with eating behaviour. This study aimed to analyse the mediating impact of positive and negative affect on the relationship between anxiety and depressive symptoms and emotional eating in migrants. Method: A sample of 922 Colombian migrants in Chile participated in the study. The Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire were used for data collection. Mediation analysis was conducted using structural equation models. Results: Anxiety and depression correlated positively. Anxiety presented positive results on negative affect and emotional eating and negative results on positive affect. Depression had positive impacts on negative affect and emotional eating and negative impacts on positive affect. Only negative affect presented significant positive results on emotional eating. Only negative affect presented a specific and statistically significant indirect influence on anxiety and emotional eating. Positive affect and negative affect jointly presented a total and statistically significant indirect effect between anxiety and EE and between depression and emotional eating. Conclusions: This study provides evidence of how negative affect mediates the relationship between anxiety and depressive symptoms and emotional eating.

Politics in geographical research on mobilities evaluates the nature of power and control of mobility and considers how people are differently enabled and constrained by these processes. Politics is usually approached along subject-centered lines where the task is to identify who is enabled and who is constrained and subsequently to account for the hidden mechanisms of power behind this unevenness. This article argues that what these subject-centered analyses can risk underplaying are the very transformations that mobility practices such as commuting themselves actually give rise to. This article draws on qualitative fieldwork during an evening train commute between Sydney and Wollongong in Australia to argue that the politics of mobilities needs to attend to ongoing processes of \"micropolitical\" transformation that take place through events and encounters, changing relations of enablement and constraint in the process. My argument is that we need to expand our understanding of what constitutes mobility politics to understand the nature and reach of the multiple forces that are at play, affecting and transforming life in this zone. This potentially enables us to more sensitively evaluate questions of responsibility and intervention.

Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in great loss of life worldwide and shook the global economy, required individuals' willingness and ability to behave prosocially. To contribute to the understanding of predictors of prosociality, we used multilevel models to test three previously established pathways to prosocial behavior, which we call the “broaden and build”, compensation, and incapacity pathways. We also tested whether these three paths are mediated by general well-being, and moderated by collective disempowerment, i.e., individuals’ belief that external societal forces have made it harder for people like them to function effectively. Participants from 39 countries (N = 59987) were surveyed on their willingness to engage in prosocial behaviors in the context of the pandemic. The “broaden and build” pathway was supported: positive affect was associated with willingness to engage in prosocial behavior via higher well-being. Two (in)capacity paths were also supported: financial strain and negative affect were both negatively associated with prosociality via lower well-being. A compensation pathway was also observed: Controlling for lower well-being, negative affect was associated with greater prosociality. Finally, differences in disempowerment moderated the affective pathways: higher disempowerment strengthened the positive association of positive affect with prosociality via well-being, and buffered the negative affect incapacity path.

Resumen Desde un corpus a modo de trípode siempre inestable, colocamos en diálogo tres obras diversas en tres aspectos articulados: su materialidad, el trabajo con la temporalidad y el desastre ambiental como horizonte temático. La infancia del mundo (2023), novela distópica del escritor Michel Nieva; la serie fotográfica Antropogénico (2023) de Daniel Taveira y el registro de la performance Mil (quase) Mortos: Boiúna (2019) de Uýra Sodoma constituyen prácticas estéticas sudamericanas que se contraponen en sus modos de sentir, pensar y actuar ante la emergencia planetaria tal como se vive en nuestras latitudes. Narración, fotografías y performance presentan entramados relacionales y afectivos en diálogo con receptorxs activxs implicadxs en la creciente devastación del entorno. Analizaremos el espesor afectivo del corpus partiendo de la relación específica con el tiempo. Si Nieva y Taveira trabajan futurizaciones (Gatto), Uýra Sodoma se embebe de puro presente precario –en el sentido de Fabião– en un Manaos pútrido. Por otro lado, la dimensión de los afectos en lxs sujetxs del corpus es parte de las herramientas de adaptación de lo viviente observada a nivel de entre-cuerpos (Giorgi). Exploraremos los cuerpos afectados en estos imaginarios de extremo riesgo: en ellos se plantean efectos que sitúan a la percepción como otro modo de cognición y significación (Depetris Chauvin y Taccetta).  Abstract This paper analyzes three diverse works in dialogue in three articulated aspects: their materiality, their work with temporality and environmental disaster as a theme: La infancia del mundo (2023), dystopian novel written by Michel Nieva; the photographic series Antropogénico (2023) by Daniel Taveira and the performance Mil (quase) Mortos: Boiúna (2019) by Uýra Sodoma. They are South American aesthetic practices that contrast in their ways of feeling, thinking and acting on the planetary emergency as it is experienced in our latitudes. Narration, photographs and performance present relational and affective frameworks that dialogue with recipients involved in the growing devastation of the environment. The affective dimension of the corpus is analyzed based on the specific relationship with time. If Nieva and Taveira work on futurizations (Gatto), Uýra Sodoma refers to the precarious present – in Fabião's sense – in a putrid Manaus. On the other hand, the dimension of affects in the subjects of the corpus is part of the adaptation tools of the living thing observed at the inter-body level (Giorgi). The bodies affected in risk imaginaries are studied: in them there are effects that place perception as another mode of cognition and meaning (Depetris Chauvin y Taccetta).

A partir de mi experiencia personal con el aborto y el acompañamiento, reflexiono sobre el poder transformador de los cuidados de/para/entre mujeres. Metodológicamente, empleé un relato etnográfico como observación retrosprospectiva y participante, activista, situada y afectiva de mi vivencia. Esta aproximación me permitió una inmersión profunda en el fenómeno, reconociéndome como parte integral del proceso. En el texto sostengo que la criminalización legal y social del aborto en México ha fomentado la conformación de comunidades emocionales de cuidado a través del acompañamiento, generando un posicionamiento teórico, político y ético de justicia (no) reproductiva en favor de las mujeres y personas gestantes. Los hallazgos clave revelan diferentes epistemologías del acompañamiento, un acompañamiento arraigado en una ética del cuidado movilizada por emociones, y una transformación significativa en las narrativas del aborto. El alcance de este ensayo crítico es doble: por un lado, propone formas alternativas de investigación del activismo feminista, validando la afectación de la investigadora como ruta para comprender fenómenos que desbordan lo discursivo y son situacionales. Por otro lado, contribuye a la visibilización de diversas epistemologías del acompañamiento gestadas por las propias mujeres.

In recent years, the geographies of architecture have expanded to include the affective and emotive dimensions of everyday life and the politics of urban space. This article explores these embodied geographies of architecture in an emerging urban landscape that has the built environment at its core: the postdictatorship retail landscape of neoliberal Chile. By drawing on findings from ethnographic research around the role of affect and emotion in the controversial development of a particular shopping mall in southern Chile, we get a better sense of how retail capital expands into new territories and how it responds to and enrolls embodied geographies in the process. Although this process does include the expansion of a particular kind of spatial technology that works through affective architectural interventions, this article also illustrates how such an expansion relies on prevailing imaginative and emotional geographies in important ways. As such, this embodied architectural geography does not sideline human subjectivity but explores its complex relationship with the materiality of landscape and affective architectural space. Key Words: affect, emotion, imaginative geography, landscape, shopping mall.

This study considers how the fluidity of power loci, in terms of text ownership, replaces the static nature of hegemonic relationships between the protagonist and the characters in Gustavo Sainz's novel A troche y moche (2002). The key aspect of this study of power loci and power border crossing is the analysis of the complexity of the dominance/subordination dichotomy. Using the theories of hegemonic masculinity and posthegemony, the essay examines the fluid nature of borders between the power loci of the writer-protagonist, his associates, and his kidnappers. Este ensayo estudia cómo el carácter inestable de las localidades de poder (en cuanto a la propiedad textual) reemplaza las relaciones hegemónicas estáticas entre el protagonista y los personajes secundarios en la novela A troche y moche (2002) de Gustavo Sainz. El enfoque principal de este análisis de los lugares de poder y cómo se cruzan sus fronteras se basa en la dicotomía compleja de dominancia/subordinación. El ensayo aplica las teorías de la masculinidad hegemónica y de la poshegemonía para interrogar lo inestable que son las fronteras de los lugares de poder del escritor-protagonista, sus colegas y secuestradores.

Positive mental health (PMH) has been shown to confer resilience against suicide ideation. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive effect of PMH on suicide ideation/behavior are largely unknown. The current study aimed to determine whether positive affect mediates the association between PMH and suicide ideation. A total of 150 adult outpatients (65.3%; female; age: M(SD)=37.79(13.50), range:18–77) completed measures on PMH, positive and negative affect, as well as suicide ideation. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires. Linear hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the data. Positive affect was considered to mediate the association between positive mental health and suicide ideation. While positive affect fully mediated the significant negative association between PMH and suicide ideation, negative affect did not reveal to be a significant mediator of this relationship. The protective influence of PMH against suicide ideation is due to heightened positive affect: If positive mental health translates into positive affect, then suicide ideation becomes less likely. Se ha demostrado que la salud mental positiva (SMP) confiere resistencia contra la ideación de suicidio. Sin embargo, los mecanismos subyacentes al efecto positivo de la SPM en la ideación/comportamiento suicida son en gran medida desconocidos. El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar si el efecto positivo media la asociación entre el SPM y la ideación suicida. Método: Un total de 150 pacientes externos adultos (65,3%; mujeres; edad: M(DT)=37,79(13,50), rango:18-77) completó las medidas sobre SPM, afectos positivos y negativos, así como la ideación de suicidio. Los datos se recopilaron mediante cuestionarios de autoinforme. Se utilizó el análisis de regresión jerárquica lineal para analizar los datos. Se consideró que el afecto positivo mediaba en la asociación entre la salud mental positiva y la ideación suicida. Mientras que el afecto positivo mediaba completamente la asociación negativa significativa entre SPM e ideación suicida, el afecto negativo no reveló ser un mediador significativo de esta relación. La influencia protectora de la SMP contra la ideación de suicidio se debe a un mayor afecto positivo. Si la salud mental positiva se traduce en afecto positivo, entonces la ideación de suicidio se vuelve menos probable.

Our efforts to research the land grab in Cambodia were thwarted on multiple fronts. This article emerges from our collective experiences of fear and intimidation to reconsider land grabs as a project that produces fear and is reliant on fear. Recent literature on resource conflict focuses on acts of physical violence, but for people who live near spaces of land grabs, the everyday is marked by a different kind of violence, an incoherence and pervasive fear that threatens people's sense of self and the entire social fabric of their worlds. We ground our analysis in insights from several years of ethnographic and survey research experience in land conflict areas in Cambodia, detailing how shadowy networks of actors involved in land grabbing layer memories of war and authoritarian regimes with new threats to control populations and facilitate capital accumulation. We argue that in this context, the \"grab\" is not just a physical enclosure of land but an affective grab that precedes, surrounds, and reverberates beyond the site of the grab itself. Our article seeks to make theoretical contributions in two ways: theorizing fear as a tool of governance that facilitates state control and capital accumulation and, through this analysis, broadening the ontology of land grabs by foregrounding affect in processes of dispossession to show how the grab reverberates beyond bounded sites. The researcher is also subject to violence, raising questions about what ways of knowing are possible as fear shapes the research process and the subjectivities of both researchers and research participants.

The Colombian government and large-scale mining companies accuse small-scale gold miners of lacking a sense of the future, thereby harming the future of Colombia. In this article, I argue that marginalized people who extract gold with small-scale techniques create an alternative sense of future by engaging with the leftovers of their gold mining practices. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with people who struggle to make a living in the wake of large-scale mining interventions in the town of Marmato. Small-scale mining constantly creates simple by-products—gases, rubble, and mud—that look like waste. Small-scale miners engage with such substances as a way to make sense of their lives and the future. Making the relationships between humans and geological substances, waste and technology visible elucidates alternative forms of life that “get in the way” of a multinational mining company, the national government, local mafias, and financial markets hungry for gold in times of crisis. By analyzing people’s engagement with leftovers, I offer an understanding of resilience and survival in the margins of capitalist cycles of violence. El gobierno de Colombia y las compañías mineras a gran escala ven la minería a pequeña escala como una práctica sin futuro y dañina para el país. En este artículo argumento que las personas marginalizadas que extraen oro a pequeña escala crean sentidos de futuro alternativos al entrar en relación con las sobras de sus propias prácticas mineras. El artículo está basado en trabajo de campo etnográfico en el pueblo de Marmato, con personas que luchan por sobrevivir ante la inminencia de la ejecución de un proyecto de minería a gran escala en la montaña donde se localiza el pueblo. La minería a pequeña escala crea subproductos de manera permanente—colas, sobrantes y restos—que parecen basura. No obstante, los mineros a pequeña escala se involucran con estas sustancias como una forma de hacer sentido sobre sus propias vidas y futuros. Hacer visible la relación entre humanos y sustancias geológicas, desechos y tecnología hace posible apreciar formas alternativas de vida que “se ponen en el camino” de una multinacional minera, el gobierno nacional, mafias locales y los mercados financieros que buscan oro en tiempos de crisis. Al analizar la relación de las personas con gases, escombros, rocas, y barro, aporto una posibilidad de entender la resiliencia y subsistencia en los márgenes del capitalismo y sus ciclos de violencia.