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Published: 02 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024576-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9360-2
Published: 10 November 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372547-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7254-7
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... aesthetics affective atmospheres political authority sensorial politics ...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... and consensus , and on how these are produced, reproduced, and occasionally contested in everyday urban life and through popular art. Political authority requires consent—it is the outcome of mutual recognition by rulers and ruled. In addition, the chapter highlights the role of sensorial consensus in making...
Published: 21 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373636-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7363-6
... migrant laborers caught up in the politics of ethnic nationalism of the late apartheid era and in the stresses of a diminishing labor market. While the ngoma body-voice summarizes this history of work, it is not only about commentary. Sensory immersion in the experience of performing offers...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... This chapter discusses the spatial dimension of dons’ political authority, emphasizing the centrality of urban space, place, borders, and mobilities. Achieving authority involves enacting spatial relations between rulers and ruled that normalize the political arrangement between them...
Published: 07 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375234-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7523-4
... olfactory, audio, and even taste architectures of retailers and hotel-casinos as well as the politics of touching in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. The chapter presents these often overlooked impulses as powerful and active vectors of the commercial environment. By exploring examples of each individual mode...
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
...Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form This chapter explores the intersections of critical race studies and affect studies in order to place the ordinary life of racialized experience at the center of the affective turn. Additionally, the chapter focuses on the migration...
..., the geopolitics of World War II, affective experiences of the 1952 Cairo Fire, changing logics behind rent controls, the 1992 earthquake as a (mis)managed disaster, and the city's sensorial experiences with industrialization and vehicle-based infrastructures transformed how different groups came to relate...
Published: 11 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027331-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2733-1
... This chapter conducts four probes into contemporary controversies over habit's contested political histories. Looking first at the place Bruno Latour accords habit in the operations of “modes of existence,” it then considers the difficulties associated with Gilles Deleuze's famous aphorism: “We...
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027201-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
... to the twentieth-century notion of gender as developed by sexologists. Tracing commonalities across these distinct periods, the chapter exposes affect to lie at the core of humanism's sensory-energetic regime. To understand the intersecting dynamic of the notions of race and sex difference requires interrogating...
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By Sarah El-Kazaz
Published: 29 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027386-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2738-6
..., affective experiences of the 1952 Cairo Fire, changing logics behind rent controls, the 1992 earthquake as a (mis)managed disaster, and the city's sensorial experiences with industrialization and vehicle-based infrastructures transformed how different groups came to relate to and value property...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059240-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
... John Locke hid his work as a medical practitioner from readers of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding by casting language and science as separate “provinces of knowledge.” The chapter analyzes his diagnosis of social and political disorder as arising from pathologies of language...
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By Sarah El-Kazaz
Published: 29 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027386-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2738-6
... This chapter traces Istanbul's transforming property markets over the twentieth century, examining how the geopolitics of Ottoman defeat in World War I, affective experiences of the city as a space of melancholy, antiminority violence and exodus, sensorial experiences of industrialization...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... appraisals suggest its centrality in dons’ claims to authority. The chapter conceptualizes the community justice system in terms of legal hybridity, as the entanglement of multiple legal systems. In addition, the chapter emphasizes the sensorial dimension of law and order, discussing how material...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
...Philosophical Dialogues in Search of Incommunicability John Locke hid his work as a medical practitioner from readers of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding by casting language and science as separate “provinces of knowledge.” The chapter analyzes his diagnosis of social and political...
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
... across these distinct periods, the chapter exposes affect to lie at the core of humanism's sensory-energetic regime. To understand the intersecting dynamic of the notions of race and sex difference requires interrogating political and scientific uses of affect to delimit the basic capacities of life...