Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of EmotionFootnote*

*Earlier versions of this article were presented in the University of Minnesota Department of Geography's speaker series “Feminism and Social Theory in Geography,” 15 October 2004, and at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, 5–9 April 2005. I thank the audiences of these presentations, and Karen Dias, Jennifer Blecha, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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