The 2013 Charter of Values in Québec proposed to ban “ostentatious” religious symbols in the public sphere; while ostensibly neutral, such bans harm women who identify as Muslim, hurting their sense of belonging. This article examines the emotional experiences of Canadian Muslim women and the emotion work they do to manage non-Muslims’ impressions of them in a context of rampant Islamophobia. To understand their experiences, I develop a concept called spatialized feelings—how emotions, relationally accomplished in intersectional hierarchies, are contingent on the spaces social actors occupy. My interviews and participant observation of Muslim women in Québec revealed that their feelings about self and belonging were spatialized. In spaces dominated by whiteness (work, school, in public), my participants felt different, due to experiences of exclusion. In spaces with other Muslims, participants felt connected, but belonging was complicated by intersectional identities. Although their engagement in emotion work indicated agency, emotion work reproduced raced and gendered bodies and spaces. With exclusionary politics on the rise across the Atlantic, targeted minorities will increasingly experience racialization in gendered ways in public spaces; spatialized feelings are at the core of understanding the consequences of these politics for belonging and emotion work.

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“我会给他们一点心意”：魁北克种族化穆斯林女性的空间化情感和情感工作


2013 年魁北克价值观宪章提议禁止在公共领域使用“炫耀性”宗教符号;虽然表面上是中立的，但这样的禁令伤害了自认为是穆斯林的女性，伤害了她们的归属感。本文研究了加拿大穆斯林妇女的情感经历，以及她们在伊斯兰恐惧症猖獗的背景下为管理非穆斯林对她们的印象所做的情感工作。为了理解他们的经历，我提出了一个称为空间化情感的概念——在交叉层次结构中以关系方式完成的情感如何取决于社会行为者所占据的空间。我对魁北克穆斯林女性的访谈和参与者观察表明，她们对自我和归属感的感受是空间化的。在白人主导的空间（工作、学校、公共场合）中，由于被排斥的经历，我的参与者感觉不同。在与其他穆斯林的空间中，参与者感到相互联系，但归属感因交叉身份而变得复杂。尽管他们对情感工作的参与表明了能动性，但情感工作再现了种族和性别的身体和空间。随着大西洋彼岸排他性政治的兴起，被针对的少数群体将越来越多地在公共场所以性别化的方式经历种族化;空间化的情感是理解这些政治对归属感和情感工作的影响的核心。