Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential
concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an …

Background Women during midlife are consuming larger quantities of alcohol than any other
age group of women and any other generation of midlife women previously. This is …

Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together
contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect …

This in-depth exploration of emotions in the ancient Near East illuminates the rich and
complex worlds of feelings encompassed within the literary and material remains of this …

Creative labour studies has yielded much critical insights from workers' experiences of
'precarity'and 'self-exploitation'with increasing neo-liberalization. This important work's …

Awe has been characterized as a prosocial emotion, one that diminishes a sense of self and
permits individuals to combine easily into groups for collaborative action and collective …

The Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East is designed to serve both as a
foundational volume for a rapidly developing field of scholarship and as an accessible entry …

In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's
resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black …

Affect theory, non-representational theory, and assemblage theory have been among the
most impactful developments in the theoretical humanities in the wake of, and in reaction to …

This paper offers an understanding of the spatio‐affective workings of religious
organisations–and the marketplaces they operate in and through–that go beyond capitalist …