Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Affective Societies book series presents high-level academic work on the social dimensions of human affectivity. It aims at shaping, consolidating and promoting a new understanding of societies as Affective Societies, accounting for the fundamental importance of affect and emotion for human coexistence in the mobile and networked worlds of the twenty-first century.
Series Editors:
Birgitt Röttger-Rössler is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; [email protected]
Doris Kolesch is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; [email protected]
Hansjörg Dilger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; [email protected]
Editorial Board:
Professor Jan Slaby, Professor Christian von Scheve, Professor Hubert Knoblauch, Dr. Kerstin Schankweiler, Dr. Katharina Metz
Routledge Editor:
Emily Briggs [email protected]
Political Agency Online: Ethics and Affects in an Age of Ethno-Nationalism
1st Edition
By Max Kramer
September 04, 2025
This book examines the ways that political agency can be understood in digitally dominated media environments. Kramer shows how emotional work on the online-active self is both culturally and institutionally embedded. Filling a gap in the scholarship on the affective conditions of agency, this book...
Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Margreth Lünenborg, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
December 18, 2024
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 ...
The Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests: Midān Moments and Political Transformation in Egypt and Turkey
1st Edition
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By Bilgin Ayata, Cilja Harders
December 18, 2024
This book examines the connection between affects, mobilisation, and political transformation. Offering unique insights into the affective and emotional dynamics of occupied Tahrir and Taksim Squares, this book builds a novel understanding of urban mass protests and their capacity to “travel” ...
Affect, Power, and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Millicent Churcher, Sandra Calkins, Jandra Böttger, Jan Slaby
December 30, 2022
This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions – theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming institutional arrangements that are deeply ...
Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari
1st Edition
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By Marko Jobst, Hélène Frichot
August 01, 2022
Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture. It reflects on the legacy and influence of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the uptake of affect in architectural discourse and practice, and stresses the importance of...
Affect in Relation: Families, Places, Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Jan Slaby
January 14, 2020
Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives. Affect in Relation brings together perspectives from social science and cultural studies to analyze the formative, subject constituting potentials of affect and emotion. ...
Affective Societies: Key Concepts
1st Edition
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By Jan Slaby, Christian von Scheve
May 07, 2019
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 ...