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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Funding note; Chapter 1: Introduction: Affective Societies -- key concepts; Affective Societies: theoretical and diagnostic perspectives; A social theory perspective; A diagnostic angle; Connection and contestation: the role of concepts in research; Challenges of a research program; Working concepts: theory and research; Format of the chapters; Thematic parts; Part I: affect and emotion: charting the landscape; Part II: elaborating affect

Part III: resonances and repertoiresPart IV: collectives and contestations; Outlook: the politics of Affective Societies; References; Part I: Affect and emotion: Charting the landscape; Chapter 2: Affect; Foundation: Spinoza's relational approach to affect; Talking affect with Spinoza; Toward a systematic understanding of affect and affectio; Contemporary affect: ideas and directions; Bodies-in-relation; Affective arrangements: individual and milieu; Affect and the "wild beyond"; References; Chapter 3: Emotion, emotion concept; Emotions as realizations and conceptualizations of affect

Examples from researchConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Feeling; A brief history of the term feeling; Feelings within 20th-century emotion research; Feeling as bodily affection and meaningful world-orientation; Outlook; References; Chapter 5: Gefühlsbildung (the formation of feeling); Education, socialization, Bildung, and theformation of feeling; The formation of feeling in childhood and adolescence; The formation of feeling in transnational social fields; Emotion pedagogies on the move; Outlook; References; Chapter 6: Attachment; Attachment in affect studies; Classical attachment theory

Reconsidering attachment theoryExample: multiple attachments in Madagascar; Outlook; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7: Atmosphere; A genealogy of atmosphere; The grammar of atmosphere; From meteorology to mereology; Modes and modulations; Affective thresholds; Caught up in movement; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8: Sentiment; Neighboring concepts; Conceptual roots; Sentiment at work; Sentiment and the International Criminal Court in Africa; From the sense of justice to the sentiment of justice; Exploring the normative dimension of affective societies; References

Part II: Elaborating affectChapter 9: Affective arrangement; Arrangement thinking: key dimensions; Background and related concepts; Examples from research; Conclusion: two methodological orientations; References; Chapter 10: Affective disposition; Example; Related concepts across disciplines; Psychology; Sociology; The authoritarian personality; Systematic elaboration; Outlook and applications; References; Chapter 11: Affective practice; An outline of praxeology; The affective dimension of practice; Affective phenomena in practice; The accountability of affect; References

Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century. This volume introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies. The concepts promote insights into the affective foundations of social coexistence and are indispensable to comprehend the many areas of conflict linked to emotion such as migration, political populism, or local and global inequalities. Adhering to an instructive narrative, Affective Societies provides historical orientation; detailed explication of the concept in question, clear-cut research examples, and an outlook at the end of each chapter. Presenting interdisciplinary research from scholars within the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies," this insightful monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as affect and emotion, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies.

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