Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century. This volume int

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,

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recog

DIVInvestigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultura

Has the Affective Turn itself turned sour? Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technologies from affective