1st Edition

Analyzing Affective Societies Methods and Methodologies

Edited By Antje Kahl Copyright 2019
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously shaped by them. However, the literature on the methodological implications of researching affects and emotions remains rather limited. As a... Read more

List of Contributors





Acknowledgements





 







  1. Antje Kahl: Introduction








  2. Jan Slaby, Rainer Mühlhoff, Philipp Wüschner: Concepts as Methodology–A Plea for Arrangement Thinking in the Study of Affect






  3. Part I. Textualities







  4. Anna L. Berg, Christian von Scheve, N. Yasemin Ural, Robert Walter-Jochum: Reading for Affect—A Methodological Proposal for Analyzing Affective Dynamics in Discourse








  5. Bilgin Ayata, Cilja Harders, Derya Özkaya, Dina Wahba: Interviews as Situated Affective Encounters—A Relational and Processual Approach for Empirical Research on Affect, Emotion and Politics








  6. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Gabriel Scheidecker, Anh Thu Anne Lam: Narrating Visualized Feelings—Photovoice as a Tool in Researching Affects and Emotions among School Students






  7. Part II. Audio-Visualities







  8. Kerstin Schankweiler, Philipp Wüschner: Images that Move—Analyzing Affect with Aby Warburg








  9. Hermann Kappelhoff, Hauke Lehmann: The Temporal Composition of Affects in Audiovisual Media








  10. Margreth Lünenborg, Tanja Maier: Analyzing Affective Media Practices by the Use of Video Analysis








  11. Hubert Knoblauch, Michael Wetzels, Meike Haken: Videography of Emotions and Affectivity in Social Situations






  12. Part III. Performativities







  13. Ingrid Kummels, Thomas John: Investigating Affective Media Practices in a Transnational Setting








  14. Jonas Bens: The Ethnography of Affect in Discourse Practice—Performing Sentiment in the Time Machine








  15. Doris Kolesch, Matthias Warstat: Affective Dynamics in the Theatre: Towards a Relational and Poly-Perspectival Performance Analysis








  16. Anne Fleig: Shared and Divided Feelings in Translingual Texts of Emine Sevgi Özdamar—Performativity and Affective Relationality of Language, Writing and Belonging






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    Part IV. Reflexivities







  18. Edda Heyken, Anita von Poser, Eric Hahn, Thi Main Huong Nguyen, Jörg-Christian Lanca, Thi Minh Tam Ta: Researching Affects in the Clinic and Beyond—Multi-perspectivity, Ethnography, and Mental Health-Care Intervention








  19. Dominik Mattes, Omar Kasmani, Hansjörg Dilger: ‘All Eyes Closed’—Dis/sensing in Comparative Fieldwork on Affective-Religious Experiences








  20. Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker, Ferdiansyah Thajib: Fieldwork, Ethnography, and the Empirical Affect Montage








  21. Elgen Sauerborn: Investigating Emotions by Using Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software—A Methodological Approach


Biography

Antje Kahl is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology currently heading the method lab at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.