Social-Emotional Bonds in Interwar France

Created with Net.Create, the “Sonic-Emotional Bonds” map demonstrates how people  interacted with one another, what the quality and strengths of their relationships were like, and how their relationships changed over time, especially in relation to war-related grief and trauma. Each interpersonal connection is annotated with primary and secondary sources, including links to archival holdings. This social network map will help to visualize how grief and trauma in response to World War I divided some communities, while strengthening others. Importantly, “Sonic-Emotional Bonds” prompts the consideration of the circulations of emotions, affects, and sound as central aspects of history, while also visualizing these relationships in ways that will be useful to researchers of interwar France across numerous disciplines—musicology, history, art history, literary studies, sociology, disability studies, emotion studies, trauma studies, and gender and sexuality studies—since the people whose networks I will map moved, lived, and worked in various different fields and circles.