Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Affective Societies presents high-level academic work on the social dimensions of human affectivity. It aims to shape, consolidate and promote 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. Contributions come from a wide range of academic fields, including anthropology, sociology, cultural, media and film studies, political science, performance studies, art history, philosophy, and social, developmental and cultural psychology. Contributing authors share the vision of a transdisciplinary understanding of the affective dynamics of human sociality. Thus, Routledge Studies in Affective Societies devotes considerable space to the development of methodology, research methods and techniques that are capable of uniting perspectives and practices from different fields.
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]
The New Key Concepts in Affective Societies
1st Edition
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By Jan Slaby, Christian Von Scheve, Tamar Blickstein, Polina Aronson
December 16, 2025
This volume offers a comprehensive rethinking of how affect and emotion shape contemporary social and political life. Against the backdrop of global crises, polarized publics, and media-saturated environments, this book positions affect not as a mere supplement to reason or discourse, but as the ...
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
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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
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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...
Public Spheres of Resonance: Constellations of Affect and Language
1st Edition
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By Anne Fleig, Christian von Scheve
June 30, 2021
To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion. Political discourse is no ...
Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies
1st Edition
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By Christian von Scheve, Anna Berg, Meike Haken, Nur Ural
April 01, 2021
Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition. As in other contested fields, emotions are often one-sidedly discussed as quintessentially subjective and individual phenomena, neglecting their social and cultural constitution. ...
Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies
1st Edition
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By Antje Kahl
December 18, 2020
In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously shaped by them. However, the literature on ...
Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!
1st Edition
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By Doris Kolesch, Theresa Schütz, Sophie Nikoleit
December 18, 2020
At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space. Staging Spectators in ...
Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media
1st Edition
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By Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl
June 30, 2020
Recent political conflicts signal an increased proliferation of image testimonies shared widely via social media. Although witnessing with and through images is not a phenomenon of the internet era, contemporary digital image practices and politics have significantly intensified the affective ...
Affect in Relation: Families, Places, Technologies
1st Edition
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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. ...