TY - BOOK ID - 48290020 TI - The politics of affective societies : an interdisciplinary essay AU - Bens, Jonas AU - Lehmann, Hauke AU - Lüthjohann, Matthias AU - Oberkrome, Friederike AU - Roth, Hans AU - Scheidecker, Gabriel AU - Thonhauser, Gerhard AU - Ural, Nur Yasemin AU - Wahba, Dina AU - Walter-Jochum, Robert AU - Zik, M. RagipVE AU - Diefenbach, Aletta AU - John, Thomas PY - 2019 SN - 3839447623 3837647625 PB - Bielefeld, Germany DB - UniCat KW - Cultural studies KW - Affect. KW - Cultural Anthropology. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Cultural Theory. KW - Culture. KW - Emotion. KW - Ethnology. KW - Politics; Affect; Emotion; Culture; Cultural Theory; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Studies KW - Culture KW - Emotions KW - Study and teaching. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Sociology of emotions KW - Sociology KW - Politics KW - Affect KW - Emotion KW - Cultural Theory KW - Ethnology KW - Cultural Anthropology KW - Cultural Studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48290020 AB - 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. ER -