The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By Sara Ahmed. 2004

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Affect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality' (2008, background): “Sara Ahmed (2004) explores these practices of solidity and fixity in relation to the emotions by exploring how emotions ‘stick’ to certain bodies and mark them as inferior, dangerous, pathological and so forth.”
The Emotional Ambivalence of Socially Just Teaching: A Case Study of a Novice Urban Schoolteacher (2008, positive): “For example, the formation of beliefs includes both cognitive and affective elements (Abelson, 1979); the formation of beliefs about social justice, then, is not only an intellectual but also an emotional process (Ahmed, 2004).”
Theorizing “Difficult Knowledge” in the Aftermath of the “Affective Turn”: Implications for Curriculum and Pedagogy in Handling Traumatic Representations (2014, background): “, she cites Ahmed and other scholars from the field of critical emotion studies) to suggest that “frames of war” establish “domains of the knowable” (p. 6) that “produce norms of recognizability” (p. 6). These norms, as she argues, operate at the level of social and political affect, as shown from t”
Provocations for Critical Disability Studies (2019, background): “But in this article we want to take a little time to grapple with some aspects of our affective politics (for explication, see Ahmed 2004, 2007/2008, 2010).”
Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research (2018, background): “Researchers should be aware that when making requests of trans individuals or groups for engagement with a project, this is a request for intellectual and emotional labour (Ahmed, 2014; Hochschild, 2012).”
Education and the Dangerous Memories of Historical Trauma: Narratives of Pain, Narratives of Hope (2008, background): “To say that memory is socially and politically situated is not to deny that it has an emotional dimension unique to each individual; on the contrary, memory is both individual and collective and is constituted in affective economies of shared remembering (Ahmed, 2004).”
Affect, race, and white discomfort in schooling: decolonial strategies for ‘pedagogies of discomfort’ (2018, background): “…shows how racialized relations between bodies might be perpetuated, not because of any essence in these relations but because of the ways in which certain emotions (e.g. fear, anger, repulsion) ‘stick’ to certain bodies (Ahmed 2004), fixating Whites and Others into exclusive subject categories.”
Critical pedagogy and emotion: working through ‘troubled knowledge’ in posttraumatic contexts (2013, background): “Given that emotion is never simply individual or internal (Ahmed, 2004), troubled knowledge can be understood”
Automotive Emotions (2004, background): “Insofar as ‘feelings’ are embodied and performed in the convergences and collisions between emotion cultures and material cultures, we can speak of both ‘affective economies’ (Ahmed, 2004) and ‘emotional geographies’ of automobility in which there are flows, circulations, distributions, intensificat”
Mobile intimacy in an age of affective mobile media (2012, background): “The Work of Intimate Co-Presence: Professionalism and Lifestyle With the “intimate” turn impacting upon various facets of cultural practice and politics, notions like emotion are no longer defined individually or psychologically but as an integral part of social life (Sara Ahmed 2004).”
Lacan and Political Subjectivity: Fantasy and Enjoyment in Psychoanalysis and Political Theory (2008, background): “Indeed, by taking into account emotion, affect, and passion one may be able to reach a more thorough understanding of ‘‘what sticks’’ (Ahmed, 2004): both what fuels identification processes and what creates discursive fixity.”
Pedagogies of strategic empathy: navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education (2012, background): “Keywords: strategic empathy; antiracism; emotions; critical pedagogy Strong emotions anger, resentment, and fear often follow discussions of racism and explorations of anti-racism (Ahmed 2004).”