The New Key Concepts in Affective Societies

1. Affect and emotion: Social theory for the 21st century

Jan Slaby and Christian Von Scheve

Part I: Governance, Reflexivity, Contestation

2. Emotional reflexivity

Elgen Sauerborn

3. Contested emotions

Christian Von Scheve

4. Emotional politics

Jonas Harbke, Simon Koschut, Julia Mehlmann, and Gabriela Pancheva

5. Outrage politics

Michal Givoni

6. Affective mobilization

Jonas Harbke, Julia Mehlmann, Max Müller, Maren Wirth, Hansjörg Dilger, Simon Koschut, Margreth Lünenborg, and Dominik Mattes

7. Reading relations

Gesa Jessen

Part II: Senses, Belonging, Care

8. Olfactory affect

İlke İmer, Claudia Liebelt, and Mayis Tokel

9. Sensory care

Max Müller, Luisa Eilinghoff, Anita Von Poser, Edda Willamowski, Eric Hahn, and Thi Minh Tam Ta

10. Affective treatment

Taoyi Yang

11. Home feelings

Gregory Gan

Part III: Institutions, Economy, Media

12. Institutional affect

Millicent Churcher, Sandra Calkins, Jandra Böttger, and Jan Slaby

13. Property as affect

Jonas Bens

14. Market affects

Markus Lange

15. Affective media

Bernd Bösel

16. Infrastructures of feeling

Ana Makhashvili and Margreth Lünenborg

17. Affective archive

Kerstin Schankweiler

Part IV: Echoes, Hauntings, Prefigurations 

18. Affective contemporaneity

Anne Fleig and Matthias Warstat

19. Haunting

Fabian Bernhardt

20. Prefigurative aesthetics

Theresa Schütz and Doris Kolesch

21. Colonialism as affect

Paola Ivanov and Laibor Kalanga Moko

Part V: Friction, Stasis, Suppression

22. Affective engagements

Hansjörg Dilger, Maren Wirth, and Kristina Mashimi

23. Affects of critique

Aletta Diefenbach, Matthias Lüthjohann, and Hans Roth

24. Affective stasis

Fabian Bernhardt

25. Unfeeling

Henrike Kohpeiss

Part VI: Perspectives

26. Affect as method: Against the numb view of embodiment

Donovan O. Schaefer

27. Studying (neo-)emotion practices in affect and emotion research

Marci D. Cottingham

28. Qadma’: Ecology and the ends of affect

Tamar Blickstein

Biography

Jan Slaby is Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include philosophy of mind, social philosophy, philosophy of science, and, in particular, affect and emotion theory with a focus on subject formation, social interaction, and political affect. With Suparna Choudhury, he was co-editor of Critical Neuroscience (2012). With Christian von Scheve, he co-edited Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019).

Christian von Scheve is Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on the Sociology of Affect and Emotion, Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, and Social Psychology. With Mikko Salmela, he was co-editor of Collective Emotions (2013). With Jan Slaby, he co-edited Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019).

Tamar Blickstein is a postdoctoral researcher at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, trained in social and cultural anthropology. She is an affiliated researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she recently completed a Marie Słodowska Curie Fellowship on the affective experience of deforestation in South America. She has researched and published on colonialism, memory, racialization, and ecology in Europe and Latin America. She wrote the chapter “Affects of Racialization” for the first Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019) volume.

Polina Aronson is a sociologist and journalist working at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, as a public relations officer and an editor. Her research interests include post-socialist emotional regimes, cultural translations of the therapeutic turn, and, especially, transformations of ideas about love and intimacy. Polina’s journalistic publications appeared in international and independent Russian-language media, such as Aeon, Deutsche Welle, openDemocracy, and many others.