Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives. Affect in Relation brings together p

The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound i

Affect in Relation brings together perspectives from social science and cultural studies to analyze the formative, subject constituting potentials of affect and

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 int

Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary s