This article examines touch and its significance from an affect studies perspective. Touch
makes our bodies more-than-one in a very concrete way, yet in body and affect research it …

Even within what has been loosely characterized as a “return to the senses” in the social
sciences, cultural history, and social theory, the place of touch is problematic. Touch is …

Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been
largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed …

This study examined how touch role and culture shape affective touch experiences.
Germans (N= 130) and Chinese (N= 130) were surveyed once as toucher and once as …

The sense of touch develops early in life and becomes a determinant aspect of our personal
narratives, providing crucial information about the world around us and playing a prominent …

Touch is a pervasive human action, which plays an important role in interpersonal
relationships, in private as well as in institutional contexts, and which constitutes a …

The mammalian need for social proximity, attachment and belonging may have an adaptive
and evolutionary value in terms of survival and reproductive success. Consequently …

This paper explores the multiple significances (semefulness) of touch, as experienced by us
as embodied subjects. Prompted by the development of a range of touch-based …

In the Sociology of Emotion and Affect Studies, affects are usually regarded as an aspect of
human beings alone, or of impersonal or collective atmospheres. However, feelings and …

Touch is, I propose, a foundational,“intercorporeal” form of intimacy. Such intercorporeal
intimacy precedes developmentally and undergirds permanently the “intersubjective” …