“broken” in the colloquial Russian expression ( razbitaia doroga ). In this article, I show how this broken road becomes “productive” in terms of affect. First, the broken road facilitates the sense of belonging to the community, political self
Malfunctioning Affective Infrastructures
How the “Broken” Road Becomes a Site of Belonging in Postindustrial Eastern Siberia
Vasilina Orlova
Carl Plantinga
“fascist affect.” Fascist Art Fascism is a political ideology with a constellation of associated social and ethical commitments ( Hayes 1973 ; Payne 1980 ). This constellation of commitments has existed since the rise of fascism in Italy in 1922, and
Objet A(ffect) and Che(www) Vuoi
The Fleshy Horror of the Unknowable Other in Spring and Honeymoon
Dewey Musante
two-minute sequence of a newlywed husband pulling a gooey alien worm out of his mysteriously amnesia-stricken wife’s vagina. Although the scene eschews any clear nudity or graphic insertion/penetration, the affective intention of the scene is clear and
Toward a Model of Distributed Affectivity for Cinematic Ethics
Ethical Experience, Trauma, and History
Philip Martin
One way that we can understand the ethical significance of affective engagement with films is through the concept of empathy. By “feeling with” characters on-screen, viewers can understand more comprehensively characters’ circumstances and their
Gil Hizi
pertinent limitations. Based on a study of workshops for interpersonal skills in a second-tier city in northeast China, this article offers a case study for the relationship between affect and ‘person-making’ in market-driven societies, highlighting the
The Cyndi Lauper Affect
Bodies, Girlhood and Popular Culture
Kristina Gottschall, Susanne Gannon, Jo Lampert, and Kelli McGraw
Using a collective biography method informed by a Deleuzian theoretical approach (Davies and Gannon 2009, 2012), this article analyses embodied memories of girlhood becomings through affective engagements with resonating images in media and popular culture. In this approach to analysis we move beyond the impasse in some feminist cultural studies where studies of popular culture have been understood through theories of representation and reception that retain a sense of discrete subjectivity and linear effects. In these approaches, analysis focuses respectively on decoding and deciphering images in terms of their normative and ideological baggage, and, particularly with moving images, on psychological readings. Understanding bodies and popular culture through Deleuzian notions of “becoming“ and “assemblage“ opens possibilities for feminist researchers to consider the ways in which bodies are not separate from images but are, rather, becomings that are known, felt, materialized and mobilized with/through images (Coleman 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009, 2011; Ringrose and Coleman 2013). We tease out the implications of this new approach to media affects through three memories of girls' engagements with media images, reconceived as moments of embodied being within affective flows of popular culture that might momentarily extend upon ways of being and doing girlhood.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 30–45 (16 total)
On Photography, History, and Affect
Re-Narrating the Political Life of a Laotian Subject
Panivong Norindr
This essay considers the role of personal, affective history in shaping historiography, and more precisely, a post-colonial history of Laos. Relying on a variety of sources, official and family photographs, US diplomatic documents, telegrams and personal notes, and against the backdrop of multiple losses, this article problematizes the questions of biography and the complex links between the personal and the "historical" by narrating my father's professional trajectory over three decades as a civil servant and career diplomat. Pheng Norindr represented Laos at the 1962 Geneva Conference and became the Laotian envoy to the United Stated during the Vietnam War. His entanglement with French colonialism and Cold War politics offers a point of entry into a Laotian historiography that is critical of a monolithic Western history of Laos.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 89–103 (15 total)
Florian Mühlfried
This article builds on ethnographic vignettes of mistrust, with the material stemming from the South Caucasus. Although mistrust has recently gained attention as a phenomenon sui generis, the impact of objects on the stirring of mistrust has been largely overlooked. The present article intends to fill this lacuna by investigating how certain objects are met with mistrust because their (material or discursive) surfaces and their contents seem inconsistent. The affective response to this perceived mismatch may be articulated in frustration or anger, but also in humor or longing. With respect to longing, I elaborate how this emotion stimulates searches for hidden truths that can be found in the realm of conspiracy theory.
Affective Solidarities?
Participating in and Witnessing Fair Trade and Women’s Empowerment in Transnational Communities of Practice
Debarati Sen
consumer-citizens in the global North to demonstrate their affective solidarity with producers in the global South by visiting certified production sites to participate in and witness the effects of fair trade on worker’s livelihoods. Their acts of
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 13–18 (6 total)
Moral Subjectivity and Affective Deficit in the Transitional State
On Claiming Land in South Africa
Christiaan Beyers
In the context of transitional justice, how does the reinvented state come to be assumed as a social fact? South African land restitution interpellates victims of apartheid- and colonial-era forced removals as claimants, moral and legal subjects of a virtuous 'new' state. In the emotional narratives of loss and suffering called forth in land claim forms, the state is addressed as a subject capable of moral engagement. Claim forms also 'capture' affects related to the event of forced removals as an unstable political resource. However, within an ultimately legal and bureaucratic process, the desire for recognition is typically not reciprocated. Moreover, material settlements are indefinitely delayed due to political and institutional complications. The resulting disillusionment is counterweighed by persistent aspirations for state redress.