EDITORIAL Dr. Lars Cornelissen ISRF Academic Editor
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write the editorial to the present issue of the ISRF Bulletin with something of a heavy heart. The issue marks the end of Louise Braddock’s tenure as the ISRF’s Director of Research. Having handed over her directorial duties to Chris Newfield earlier this month, this will be the last Bulletin issue for which she was asked to pen the opening note. Although it was never framed as such within the ISRF team, to my mind this issue stands as a memorial to Louise’s intellectual legacy at the Foundation. The guiding theme of the issue is the concept of structures of feeling, coined and elaborated by the Welsh Marxist and cultural theorist Raymond Williams (1921–1988), which has become central to Louise’s own research agenda over the past few years. Her own contribution to this issue, “‘The Unconscious is Structured like a Structure’: The Role of Structure in the Social Transmission of Meaning,” documents her reading of Williams and her attempt to address some of the limits of the theoretical framework he articulated. The way the remainder this issue came together stands as a testimony to Louise’s unmatched ability to bring different scholars and indeed scholarly styles together. The three opening articles, by former ISRF Fellows Mike Makin-Waite, Julie Parsons, and Henrique Carvalho, came out of a research meeting Louise convened earlier this year, when the ISRF—much like everyone else—was experimenting with the possibilities opened up by the Zoomscape. Asked by Louise to make their own research projects speak to the concept of structures of feeling, Mike, Julie, and Henrique all found ways of weaving it into their respective thinking, resulting in the articles presented here. The ‘Curated Research Conversation’ that follows Louise’s own contribution to this Bulletin is likewise the result of a series of online research meetings, this time involving Louise’s research network. 4
