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WiSe 16/17: The politics of affect and emotion

Carl Rommel

Information for students

Blockseminar - Termine: Fr 28.10., 9-13h; Fr 25.11., 10-18h; Fr 9.12., 9-15h; Fr 13.01., 9-15h; Fr 3.2., 10-18h alle in Landoltweg 9-11, Raum 014 (Seminarraum)

Comments

This seminar explores various ways in which feelings intersect with politics. While firmly grounded in anthropology of emotions and affect, the course also covers political affect studies, the anthropology of event, aftermath and haunting, and ethnographies examining affective infrastructures, ruins and debris. As such, the class interrogates both the pervasiveness and efficiency of affective rule, and the ephemeral fragility that such projects of power necessarily entail. close

Suggested reading

Sample literature

- Stoler, A. L. 2004. “Affective states.” In A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, (eds.) D. Nugent & J. Vincent. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Navaro-Yashin, Y. 2012. The make-believe space: affective geography in a post-war polity. Durham: Duke University Press
Berlant, L. 2011. Cruel optimism. Durham: Duke University Press.
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Additional appointments

Fri, 2016-10-28 09:00 - 13:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Carl Rommel