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Affective Formation of Publics
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory. Using empirical case studies from contexts as diverse as India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and the Americas as well as Europe, the book challenges dichotomous distinctions between private and public. Instead, publics are understood as a relational structure that encompasses both people and their physical and mediatized environment. While each kind of public is affectively constituted, the intensity of its affective attunement varies considerably. The volume is aimed at academic readers interested in understanding the dynamic and fluid forms of contemporary formation of publics—be it digital or face-to-face encounters as well as in the intersection of both forms. This includes researchers from media and communication studies, social anthropology, theatre or literary studies. It is aimed at advanced students of these disciplines who are interested in the unfolding of contemporary publics.
Mediated Emotions of Migration
This book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.
The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion
Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated by the material and the body - have the potential to challenge or exceed existing relations of power in the mediascape. Wei Dong shows how Chinese reality TV provides a historical and theoretical opportunity for understanding the affective structures of contemporary China in the dynamic process of fracture and integration.
Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart
Aufwühlende Bilder von Krieg, Gewalt, Flucht und Vertreibung; Hasskommentare in den sozialen Medien; Gesten einer Willkommenskultur für Geflüchtete und der Solidarität unter Fremden; die geradezu mit Händen greifbare Spannung, die plötzlich den Raum zwischen Anwesenden erfüllt; Unsicherheit und Angst, aber auch Gleichgültigkeit angesichts der Klimakatastrophe – Beispiele wie diese zeigen, dass Affekte nicht nur in besonderer Weise gesellschaftliche wie private Situationen prägen, sondern dass sie in ihrer jeweiligen Verfasstheit und Zirkulation auch gesellschaftliche Veränderungen anzeigen und begleiten. Als dynamische Kräfte sind Affekte grundlegend für soziale Beziehungen und...
The Vano Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 1917-2007
The Tbilisi State Conservatoire was the first European-type musical higher education institution not only in Georgia but in the Caucasus as a whole. The Conservatoire has a rich history of creativity, a flourishing concert life including performances by Leopold Auer, Sergei Rachmaninov, Anton Rubinstein, Henryk Wieniawski and hundreds of other luminaries and an star-studded list of alumni including legendary bass Feyodor Chaliapin. This new book traces the history of this famous institution over the last 80 years including its ups, downs and persistent quest for musical and human excellence.
Affective Transformations
Has the Affective Turn itself turned sour? Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technologies from affective computing to social robotics focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Second, we witness a deeply concerning rise in hate speech, cybermobbing, and incitement to violence via social media. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. Politics has become affective to such an extent that we need to rethink our regimes of affect organization. Media and Affect Studies now have to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real.
Affective Societies
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 introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies. The concepts promote insights into the affective foundations of social coexistence and are indispensable to comprehend the many areas of conflict linked to emotion such as migration, political populism, or local and global inequalities. Adhering to an instructive narrative, Affective Societies provides historical orientation; detailed explication of the concept in question, clear-cut research examples, and an outlook at the end of each chapter. Presenting interdisciplinary research from scholars within the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies," this insightful monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as affect and emotion, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies.
Literatura infantil nuevas lecturas y nuevos lectores actas del V Seminario internacional de "Lectura y patrimonio" Estudios (Cuenca)
En este volumen se recogen las ponencias y comunicaciones presentadas en el V Seminario Internacional de Lectura y Patrimonio que, con el título de Literatura infantil: nuevas lecturas y nuevos lectores, se celebró en el campus de Cuenca de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha del 25 al 27 de octubre de 2006, organizado por el CEPLI (Centro de Estudios de Promoción de la Lectura y Literatura Infantil) y con la colaboración de las universidades de Extremadura y Passo Fundo (Brasil), creadoras e impulsoras de este evento que se había celebrado con anterioridad en cuatro ocasiones: dos de ellas en la ciudad brasileña de Passo Fundo, una en Badajoz y otra en París.Al Seminario de Cuenca asistieron especialistas, escritores, profesores e investigadores de veintidós universidades españolas, así como otros de universidades brasileñas, mexicanas, portuguesas, colombianas y argentinas. El lector podrá encontrar los trabajos agrupados en cuatro apartados: La creación literaria para niños y jóvenes, La formación del lector, Identidad, cultura, patrimonio e interculturalidad y Nuevas lecturas y nuevos lectores.
El conflicto humano
La inmensa complejidad de nuestro sistema social, la inigualable capacidad simbólica del ser humano y sus motivaciones más básicas de reconocimiento, control o pertenencia favorecen innegablemente la aparición de tensiones y conflictos. Los conflictos no son, por lo tanto, anómalos ni innaturales, sino inherentes a la naturaleza humana y, en cierta medida, inevitables. Surgen constantemente, a veces con nosotros mismos, con otras personas o entre grupos sociales. En esta obra abordaremos específicamente el conflicto que surge cuando distintitos grupos o sus miembros (p.e., naciones, grupos ideológicos, étnicos, religiosos) perciben que sus posiciones resultan incompatibles con las de...
