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The Politics of Affective Societies: An Interdisciplinary Essay
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Abstract Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to ... view more
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies, which highlights how affect and emotion are present in all aspects of the social. What changes over time and place are the modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. With this line of thinking, the authors are able to gesture towards a new outline of the political.... view less
Keywords
politics; emotion; culture; ethnology; cultural anthropology; cultural studies
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
Affect; Cultural Theory
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
125 p.
Series
EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures, 7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447628
ISBN
978-3-8394-4762-8
Status
Published Version; reviewed