Συγγραφέας
Αθανασίου Αθηνά, Χαντζαρούλα Ποθητή, Γιαννακόπουλος Κώστας
Τίτλος
Towards a New Epistemology: The “Affective Turn”
Περιοδικό
Historein: A review of the past and other stories
Τεύχος
8: 5-16
Έτος
2008
Σύνδεσμος
http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/historein.33
Περίληψη (Συγγραφέα)
The theoretical engagement with emotions and affectivity in the mid-1990s – what Patricia Clough has identified as an “affective turn” in the humani-ties and social sciences1 – draws on some of the most innovative and productive theoretical and epistemological trends of the two last decades of the twentieth century: psychoanalytically informed theories of subjec-tivity and subjection, theories of the body and embodiment, poststructur-alist feminist theory, conversation of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory with political theory and critical analysis, queer theorisation of melancholy and trauma. Threading through these fields of scholarly work, one easily at-tests to the high degree of interest in the ways in which discourses of the emotions emerge, circulate, are invoked, deployed and performed. It is in response to this special attention given nowadays to the cultural poli-tics of emotions that Kathleen Woodward has aptly argued that we live in a cultural moment in which a new economy of emotions is emerging. (Απόσπασμα από το κείμενο)
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
Ετικέτες
Σπουδές φύλου
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Ιστορία
Παρατηρήσεις
Ειδικό Τεύχος “Performing Emotions: Historical and Anthropological Sites of Affect”. Επιμέλεια: Αθηνά Αθανασίου, Δέσποινα Βαλατσού, Ποθητή Χαντζαρούλα, Κώστας Γιαννακόπουλος.
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Athanasiou, A., Hantzaroula, P., & Yannakopoulos, K. (2008). Towards a New Epistemology: The “Affective Turn”. Historein, 8, 5–16. https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.33