Description
What do emotions do? How do emotions move us or get us stuck? In developing a theory of the cultural politics of emotion, Sara Ahmed focuses on the relationship between emotions, languages and bodies. She shows us how emotions are named in speech acts, as well as how they involve sensations that are felt by the skin. The Cultural Politics of Emotion develops a new methodology for reading ‘the emotionality of texts’ and offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation.
New for this edition: an extensive Afterword, ‘Emotion and Their Objects,’ which situates the book in relation to the emergent field of affect studies, as well as in relation to the author’s body of scholarly work.
Sara Ahmed is a Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is also Director of the Centre for Feminist Research. Previous publications include Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998), Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects and Others (2006), The Promise of Happiness (2010), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) and Willful Subjects (2014).
