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Summary:

"Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy explores the power dynamics underlying the contemporary affective injunction to 'be empathetic', and their complex social and geopolitical implications. Through analysis of a range of popular and scholarly sites and texts - including Obama's speeches and memoirs, best-selling business books, international development literatures, popular science tracts, postcolonial literature and feminist, anti-racist and queer theory - this book investigates the possibilities, risks and contradictions of figuring empathy as an affective tool for engendering transnational social justice. Opening up new ways of thinking and feeling empathetic politics beyond universalist calls to 'put oneself in the others' shoes', it examines empathy's dynamic links to processes of location, translation, imagination and attunement. Affective Relations is interested in how empathy might be translated differently - how dominant liberal, neoliberal and neocolonial visions and practices of empathy can be reinterpreted in the context of transnationality to activate alternative affective connections, solidarities and potentialities"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Economies of Empathy: Obama, Neoliberalism and Social Justice
• 2. Affective (Self-) Transformations: Empathy, Mediation and International Development
• 3. Affect at the Margins: Alternative Empathies in A Small Place
• 4. Affective Translation: Empathy and The Memory of Love
• 5. Circuits of Feeling in The Age of Empathy.

Author/Creator:

Pedwell, Carolyn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Affective relations: the transnational politics of empathy [by Pedwell, C.]

Related Series:

Thinking gender in transnational times

Subjects:

Empathy

Emotions

Social psychology

Interpersonal relations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-233) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BF575.E55 P43 2014eb

ISBNs:

9781137275264 (electronic bk.)
113727526X (electronic bk.)
9781137275257 [Invalid]
1137275251 [Invalid]
9781349446100 [Invalid]
1349446106 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

890130093

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1779981 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11972151