Affective Intimacies

This volume explores the concept of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories,addressing the embodied,affective,and psychic aspects of intimate entanglements across various phenomena. It offers novel insights on care,closeness,and connectivity,contributing to timely topics across social sciences with interdisciplinary perspectives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 19 July 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press

This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh perspective on the concept of open-ended intimacies by exploring it through the lens of affect theories. The contributors delve into the multifaceted dimensions of their ongoing intimate relationships, encompassing the physical, emotional, sensory, and embodied aspects. Through their insightful contributions, this captivating collection raises important questions about the potential of affect studies to redefine intimacies, the impact of affect theories on our understanding of intimacy, and how they can revitalize and expand our theories of intimacy while also accounting for their normative and potentially harmful manifestations.

The collection brings together a diverse range of original chapters that encourage readers to reexamine concepts such as care, closeness, and connectivity through the lens of affective intimacies. Drawing on rigorous research, the chapters provide novel insights into a wide array of themes, including austerity culture, online discussions on regretting motherhood, anti-ableist notions of health, teletherapies in the era of COVID-19, and queer intimacies, among others. The book is lively and thought-provoking, contributing to timely topics across various social sciences disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, and queer studies. By embracing interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative methodologies, the collection advances the value of exploring affective intimacies and sheds light on the complex and multifaceted nature of these relationships.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 242 x 165 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526158567