Pedwell Affective Relations

The Transnational Politics of Empathy
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-27526-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pedwell, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Empathy, Emotional Politics and Transnationality 1. Economies of Empathy: Obama, Neoliberalism and Social Justice 2. Affective (Self-) Transformations: Empathy, Social Theory and International Development 3. Affect at the Margins: Alternative Empathies in A Small Place 4. Affective Translation: Empathy and The Memory of Love 5. Circuits of Feeling in The Age of Empathy Conclusions: Empathy and its Afterlives

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Pedwell is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is author of Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison and co-editor of ' AffectingFeminism: Questions of Feeling in Feminist Theory' , a special issue of Feminist Theory.