New Key Concepts in Affective Societies

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This volume offers a comprehensive rethinking of how affect and emotion shape contemporary social and political life. Bridging affect theory with empirical inquiry, it demonstrates how affect and emotion are central to how we relate, resist, dwell, and imagine.

This volume offers a comprehensive rethinking of how affect and emotion shape contemporary social and political life. Against the backdrop of global crises, polarized publics, and media-saturated environments, this book positions affect not as a mere supplement to reason or discourse, but as the connective tissue between self and society, the intimate and the institutional.

Drawing on over a decade of interdisciplinary research at the Berlin-based Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies, the contributors develop a rich conceptual toolbox to understand the affective dynamics at play in governance, media, care, protest, and everyday life. From affective polarization and outrage politics to infrastructures of feeling and institutional affect, this collection identifies new key concepts that serve as both diagnostic tools and theoretical interventions.

Bridging affect theory with empirical inquiry, it demonstrates how affect and emotion are central to how we relate, resist, dwell, and imagine. This is a carefully curated volume that will appeal to scholars and students interested in the affective and emotional foundations of contemporary societies from a range of fields: sociology, cultural studies, psycho-social studies, anthropology, political science, media studies, religious and theological studies, philosophy, and performance studies.

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1. Affect and emotion: Social theory for the 21st century; Part I: Governance, Reflexivity, Contestation; 2. Emotional reflexivity; 3. Contested emotions; 4. Emotional politics; 5. Outrage politics; 6. Affective mobilization; 7. Reading relations; Part II: Senses, Belonging, Care; 8. Olfactory affect; 9. Sensory care; 10. Affective treatment; 11. Home feelings; Part III: Institutions, Economy, Media; 12. Institutional affect; 13. Property as affect; 14. Market affects; 15. Affective media; 16. Infrastructures of feeling; 17. Affective archive; Part IV: Echoes, Hauntings, Prefigurations; 18. Affective contemporaneity; 19. Haunting; 20. Prefigurative aesthetics; 21. Colonialism as affect; Part V: Friction, Stasis, Suppression; 22. Affective engagements; 23. Affects of critique; 24. Affective stasis; 25. Unfeeling; Part VI: Perspectives; 26. Affect as method: Against the numb view of embodiment; 27. Studying (neo-)emotion practices in affect and emotion research; 28. Qadma’: Ecology and the ends of affect