… Though this is framed as a new turn in theory and method, Critical Affect argues that the
perceived split between poststructural critique and affect theory reiterates an enduring, …

… be valuable for critical endeavors … on affect demonstrates the political power of emotion
research. What feminist knowledge on affect offers is twofold: First, a way to identify “the political” …

… ‘affect’ in contemporary social science. One such issue is in the focus placed on detailed
ethnographic methods … of governing and wider shifts in policy and politics. A second lies in the …

… is hardly unified in its rhetorical scope, methodology, or even a shared … The politics of affect
are associational, then, and not … , or affect, is thus an orienting device that shapes the political …

… phases of political life, are framed using affect as a narrative device. As much as affect and
affect theory, as terms, are increasingly used in our critical essays, affect as a method has …

… Critical Affect prompts us to … in Critical Affect offer a meaningful contribution to literary
scholars and social scientists, and in particular to researchers who work with affect theory, critical …

… The ideas of percept, affect and blocs of sensation offer critical conceptual resources for
theorising the politics of aesthetics. These ideas need to be taken as an imperative for research …

… other non-empirical methods into social science (p. 12). Sixth, it recognizes … politics, on
showing how the study of affect can enhance our understanding of politics, as well as using affect …

… of affect as critical object and argues that offering affect as a … theories and methods of affect
and the politics entailed, this … the affecting participation of nonhuman forces in political life …

… in affect is primarily concerned to critique a perceived critical … with language, accounts of
affect as displacement would not do the … the relationship between affect and political economy or …