dc.contributor.author |
Wetherell, Margaret |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-10-03T04:28:43Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Body and Society 21(2):139-166 2015 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1357-034X |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/23107 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article explores the psychological logics underpinning key perspectives in the ‘turn to affect’. Research on affect raises questions about the categorization of affective states, affective meaning-making, and the processes involved in the transmission of affect. I argue that current approaches risk depopulating affecting scenes, mystifying affective contagion, and authorizing questionable psychobiological arguments. I engage with the work of Sedgwick and Frank, Thrift, and Ahmed to explore these points and suggest that the concept of affective practice offers a more promising social psychological grounding. Notions of affective practice are more commensurate with trends in contemporary psychobiology, explain the limits on affective contagion, and emphasize relationality and negotiation, attentive to the flow of affecting episodes. A practice approach positions affect as a dynamic process, emergent from a polyphony of intersections and feedbacks, working across body states, registrations and categorizations, entangled with cultural meaning-making, and integrated with material and natural processes, social situations and social relationships. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Body and Society |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1357-034X/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Trends in the Turn to Affect: A Social Psychological Critique |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1177/1357034X14539020 |
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pubs.issue |
2 |
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pubs.begin-page |
139 |
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pubs.volume |
21 |
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pubs.end-page |
166 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
455508 |
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pubs.org-id |
Science |
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pubs.org-id |
Psychology |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1460-3632 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2014-09-02 |
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