2.3 Perspektiven der Protestforschung und Affect Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-60
Author(s):  
Julia Austermann
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2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Seyfert
Keyword(s):  

ZusammenfassungIn der Geschichte der Soziologie sind Gefühle, Emotionen und Affekte auf die verschiedenste Art und Weise konzipiert worden. Im sozialpsycho­logischen Paradigma entstammen Emotionen individuellen Triebwünschen und gewinnen in erster Linie in konflikthaften Auseinandersetzungen ihren sozialen Charakter (Sublimation, etc.). Dem gegenüber bringt die Soziologie der Emotionen die Denkfigur der Interaktion in Anschlag, die es möglich macht ganz neue unper­sönliche Emotionen zu konzipieren, Emotionen, die aus zwischenmenschlichen Be­gegnungen erst hervorgehen. Seit den 1990er Jahren lässt sich nun die Entstehung der Affect Studies beobachten, die mit der Soziologie der Emotionen zwar den interak- tionistischen Ansatz teilen, jedoch deren anthropologischen Reduktionismus über­winden wollen. Bei der Entstehung sozialer Emotionen und Affekte spielen nicht nur individuelle Triebwünsche und soziale Stimmungen eine Rolle, sondern auch affektive Atmosphären, die der jeweiligen Umwelt entstammen. Obwohl die vorliegende Arbeit die Ansicht teilt, dass eine Theorie sozialer Affekte die Rolle nicht-menschlicher Ele­mente zu berücksichtigen hat, hält sie den Atmosphärenbegriff für problematisch, weil er deterministische Tendenzen impliziert und die Spezifizität aller beteiligten Körper unberücksichtigt lässt. Aus diesem Grund wird der Begriff der affektiven Inter­aktionen vorgeschlagen, der keine undifferenzierte Hintergrundstimmung annehmen muss, sondern die genauen Affekt Verhältnisse zwischen den anwesenden Körpern beschreiben kann. Dabei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, auf welche Art und Weise die jeweils anwesenden Körper miteinander interagieren (symbolisch, olfaktorisch, elektrisch, akustisch, etc.). Die Beantwortung dieser Frage verweist dann zugleich auf die Konstitution der beteiligten Körper und auf den jeweiligen Affekt, der aus der Interaktion von Körpern hervorgeht. Hinsichtlich affektiver Interaktionen greifen wir auf die Theorie der Transmission von Jean-Marie Guyau zurück, bezüglich des Konzepts des Körpers als distributives Ensemble beziehen wir uns auf Spinoza. Das affektive Milieu, aus dem Affekte entspringen, nennen wir Affektif.


Author(s):  
Namrata Chaturvedi ◽  

This paper is a close study of early modern women’s poetry on childbirth and the imminent circumstances of maternal and foetal/infantile mortality in seventeenth century England. In tracing the development of women’s post-partum mental health from the medieval to the early modern period, this paper argues for a serious investment in literature composed as memoirs, poetry, diaries and funeral sermons as a means of understanding the trajectories and lacunae in women’s mental health in the early modern period. This study also argues for including the religious experience into any consideration of women’s post-partum health and therapeutic interventions. Lastly, it shows how affect studies have proved the recuperative potential in literature of consolation and mourning so that women’s writing begins to get recognized for its interventionist potential rather than a fossilized historical treatment as it has often received.


Author(s):  
Elías Ortega-Aponte

This chapter traces how ancestral fragments evidenced in the embodied epistemology of afro-Caribbean “bomba” dancing and drumming haunt social and material reality as well as their theorization. Opening a space in affect studies for conversation between complexity theory, Dionne Brand, and Édouard Glissant, the chapter argues that the ghosts created by trauma, and the knowledge-fragments they keep, not only inform justice claims fragments, but may shape the fabric of reality.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margreth Lünenborg ◽  
Tanja Maier

This editorial delivers an introduction to the thematic <em>Media and Communication </em>issue on “The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies”. The social and cultural formation of affect and emotion has been of central interest to social science-based emotion research as well as to affect studies, which are mainly grounded in cultural studies. Media and communication scholars, in turn, have especially focused on how emotion and affect are produced by media, the way they are communicated through media, and the forms of emotion audiences develop during the use of media. Distinguishing theoretical lines of emotion theory in social sciences and diverse traditions of affect theory, we reflect on the need to engage more deeply with affect and emotion as driving forces in contemporary media and society. This thematic issue aims to add to ongoing affect studies research and to existing emotion research within media studies. A special emphasis will be placed on exploring structures of difference and power produced in and by media in relation to affect and emotion.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schuetze

In this paper, I develop the concept of affective milieus by building on the recently established notion of affective arrangements. Affective arrangements bring together the more analytical research of situated affectivity with affect studies informed by cultural theory. As such, this concept takes a step past the usual synchronic understanding of situatedness toward an understanding of the social, dynamic, historical, and cultural situatedness of individuals in relation to situated affectivity. However, I argue that affective arrangements remain too narrow in their scope of analysis since their focus mainly lies on local, marked-off, and unique constellations of affect relations. They neglect the more mundane and day-to-day affect dynamics of social life. Hence, I introduce the notion of affective milieus, which brings to light the everyday, ubiquitous affective engagements of individuals with their socio-material surroundings. Affective milieus specifically call attention to how commonplace affect relations create territories in the social universe which form and mold individuals all the time. In that way, this paper apprehends and advances recent developments in the research on situated affectivity.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley A. Gorski

In May 2016 a medieval Russian “knight” lanced a drone out of the skies above Lipetsk. The assailant was part of the Rusborg Historical Festival, one of hundreds of medieval re‐enactment events that have sprung up across Russia since 2000 and have gained widespread popularity in recent years. This article considers these festivals as part of a larger trend in neo-medievalism that has come to occupy a surprisingly prominent place in contemporary Russian culture. Examining this trend in historical reconstruction, this article demonstrates how it is motivated by contemporary concerns about globalization and modernity and Russia’s place in the modern world. Though these issues are not explicitly discussed at medieval festivals, this article suggests that such events build towards an “affective public sphere,” that is, a space of public experience centered on aesthetics and affect rather than rational discourse. The immersive imaginary environments provided at these festivals encourage participants to explore the anxieties, nostalgias, and hopes evoked by contemporary life through emotional, affective experience, rather than rational political debate. Keywords: neomedievalism, affect studies, public sphere, festivals, Times and Epochs


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya B Mathur ◽  
Tyler VanderWeele

Meta-analyses contribute critically to cumulative science, but they can produce misleading conclusions if their constituent primary studies are biased, for example by unmeasured confounding in nonrandomized studies. We provide practical guidance on how meta-analysts can address confounding and other biases that affect studies' internal validity, focusing primarily on sensitivity analyses that help quantify how biased the meta-analysis estimates might be. We review a number of sensitivity analysis methods to do so, especially recent developments that are straightforward to implement and interpret and that use somewhat less stringent statistical assumptions than earlier methods. We give recommendations for how these methods could be applied in practice and illustrate using a previously published meta-analysis. Sensitivity analyses can provide informative quantitative summaries of evidence strength, and we suggest reporting them routinely in meta-analyses of potentially biased studies. This recommendation in no way diminishes the importance of defining study eligibility criteria that reduce bias and of characterizing studies’ risks of bias qualitatively.


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