ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by describing one particular research encounter, a participant who phoned to say that she planned to take her own life on account of feeling depressed about relocating to Hamilton from post-disaster Christchurch. Language can stylistically distance authors from their experiences and so we have thought about how we name ourselves and each other both individually and collectively. In recent years feminist, social and cultural geographers have begun grappling with emotion, affect and non-representational theories in order to facilitate deeper understandings of difference and the multitudinous ways in which the world and all things within it tick. Focusing on how intimate emotions and affects are done within the research context is an important and revealing aspect of feminist, social and cultural geographies that deserves more attention. One line of enquiry might be to question what may well be some the implications of this absence of the too intimate in the work of feminist, social and cultural geographers.
