This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienced by migrants, exiles, refugees, the homeless, and others whose lives are defined by movement. Through a systematic analysis of "wandering emotions," the book reveals their dual nature: driven by joy or pain, freedom or necessity, adventure or survival. These emotions embody the tension between order and chaos, rootedness and uprooting, the nomadic and the sedentary. Highlighting their ephemeral and contingent character, the book underscores the extraordinary complexity of feelings that arise during transitory states. Using Weberian social types, it examines the tragic necessity of wandering in contexts as varied as migration, homelessness, pandemic-induced isolation, and more. This book will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and those interested in mobility and emotions,
Chapter 1: Wandering or the Path of Death and Horror.
Chapter 2:
Understanding the Meaning of Photographic Images. Affinities Between Theories
and Methods and a Dialogue with Sociology.
Chapter 3: The Ambivalent
Emotions Experienced During Migrations.
Chapter 4: Syrian Refugees in
Transit Through Minefields Inturkey, 2011-2015.
Chapter 5: The War, the
Trauma of Defeat, Repression, and Exile Among Young Spanish Republican
Aviators.
Chapter 6: Between the Rural and the Urban World, Between Africa
and Colombia. About the Music of the Afro-Caribbean Peoples Living in Cali
(Colombia).
Chapter 7: Transformism. Heterotopia in the Dressing Room
Mirror. The Case of Alicante (Spain).
Chapter 8: Homeless People: Images and
Imaginaries.
Chapter 9: Images of the Emptied Society. Alicante (Spain) as a
Local and Global Example of the Consequences Derived from the Coronavirus
Health Crisis.
Chapter 10:Coda photography, the voice of silence and the
image of emptiness.
Juan A. Roche Cárcel is Professor of Sociology of Culture, the Arts, and Emotions at the University of Alicante, Spain. A prolific author, his recent works include La creatividad rota (2024), A Silent Scream (2022), and Creativity and Time (2021). He has published extensively in leading journals and edited international monographs. Roche Cárcel has been a visiting professor at universities across Latin America, Europe, and Turkey, and has held leadership roles in the European Sociology Association and the Spanish Federation of Sociology. He currently chairs EMOCS at the University of Alicante and serves as Vice-President of REDISS.
