Bringing recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with political concerns, contemporary issues of governance and the development and implementation of social policy, this book sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of both emotional states of governance and governing emotional states. A range of field sites are used to examine issues of regulation, modification and potential manipulation of emotional affects, professional and personal identities and political technologies. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in social policy, human geography and related disciplines.