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oapen-20.500.12657-571372023-02-01T09:32:45Z Affective intimacies Kolehmainen, Marjo Lahti, Annukka Lahad, Kinneret Social Science Sociology Social Science Sociology Marriage & Family Social Science Human Geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBF Sociology: birth bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and how they renew and enrich theories of intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms. This collection brings together a selection of original chapters which invite readers to rethink such concepts as care, closeness and connectivity through the notion of affective intimacies. Based on rigorous research, it offers novel insights on a variety of themes from austerity culture to online discussions on regretting motherhood, from anti-ableist notions of health to teletherapies in the era of COVID-19, and from queer intimacies to critiques of empathy. Lively and thought-provoking, this collection contributes to timely topics across the social sciences, representing multiple disciplines from gender studies, sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and queer studies. By so doing, it advances the value of interdisciplinary perspectives and creative methodologies for understanding affective intimacies. 2022-06-29T05:31:08Z 2022-06-29T05:31:08Z 2022 book 9781526158574 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57137 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Manchester University Press Manchester University Press https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158574 https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158574 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526158574 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester University Press 6271 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and how they renew and enrich theories of intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms. This collection brings together a selection of original chapters which invite readers to rethink such concepts as care, closeness and connectivity through the notion of affective intimacies. Based on rigorous research, it offers novel insights on a variety of themes from austerity culture to online discussions on regretting motherhood, from anti-ableist notions of health to teletherapies in the era of COVID-19, and from queer intimacies to critiques of empathy. Lively and thought-provoking, this collection contributes to timely topics across the social sciences, representing multiple disciplines from gender studies, sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and queer studies. By so doing, it advances the value of interdisciplinary perspectives and creative methodologies for understanding affective intimacies.
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