ERRANT LIVES AND EMOTIONS

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.

• 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.