Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical social research by providing ideas and inspiration of how to work with affect in research practice.
Presenting cutting-edge empirical studies on affect and intimate relationships, the collection
- introduces alternative and novel ways of conceptualizing the workings of affect in intimate relationships
- provides tools for tackling the subtle ways in which affectivity connects with power relations in intimate relations
- develops innovative methodologies that provide better access to affect as an embodied experience
A fascinating contribution to the interdisciplinary field of affect studies, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as gender studies, queer studies and cultural studies.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marjo Kolehmainen and Tuula Juvonen: Introduction: Thinking with and Through Affective Inequalities
Part one: Affective capacities in embodied encounters
Katie Anderson, Paula Reavey and Zoë Boden: An affective (re)balancing act? The liminal possibilities for heterosexual partners on MDMA
Antti Malinen: Boundless Care: Religious Farm Women and Their Emotional Practices in Post-World War II Finland
Annukka Lahti: Listening to Old Tapes: Affective Intensities and Gendered Power in Bisexual Women's and Ex-Partners' Relationship Assemblages
Marjo Kolehmainen: Mapping Affective Capacities: Gender and Sexuality in Relationship and Sex Counselling Practices
Part two: Affective transitions throughout intimate lives
Tuula Juvonen: Yet Another Lesbian Breakup? Understanding Intimate Relationship Dynamics Through Affective Resonance
Liina Sointu: Slipping into 'That Nurse's Dress': Caring as Affective Practice in Mixed-Sex Couples' Relationships
Nina Lykke: When Death Cuts Apart: On Affective Difference, Compassionate Companionship and Lesbian Widowhood
Part three: Affective negotiations between partners
Raisa Jurva: Independence and Vulnerability: Affective Orientations in Imagining Futurities for Heterosexual Relationships
Olga Sabido-Ramos and Adriana García-Andrade: In the Name of Love: A Relational Approach to Young People's Relationships in Urban Mexico
Polona Curk: Affective Dissonances: Resources to Disrupt Gender Binaries?
Part four: Affective intimacies beyond couples
Katja Chmilewski and Katharina Hajek: Mobilizing Affects About Intimate Relationships: Emotional Pedagogy Among the New Right in Germany
Verónica Policarpo: The Power(s) of Friendship: Affects and Inequalities Between Friends
Julia Katila: Touch Between Child and Mother as an Affective Practice: (Re)Producing Bodies in Haptic Negotiations of Intimate Space
Bessie P. Dernikos: Reviving Ghostly Bodies: Student-Teacher Intimacies as Affective Hauntings
