Affective Relations [electronic resource] : The Transnational Politics of Empathy /
Pedwell, C.author.
Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Empathy, EmotionalPolitics and Transnationality; 1 Economies of Empathy: Obama,Neoliberalism and Social Justice; 2 Affective (Self-) Transformations:Empathy, Mediation andInternational Development; 3 Affect at the Margins: AlternativeEmpathies in A Small Place; 4 Affective Translation: Empathyand The Memory of Love; 5 Circuits of Feeling in The Age ofEmpathy; Conclusions: Empathy andits Afterlives; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social Theory.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Gender Studies.