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Auteur(s) : Pedwell, Carolyn
Titre(s) : Affective relations [Texte imprimé] : the transnational politics of empathy / Carolyn Pedwell, Newcastle University, UK
Publication : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Description matérielle : xv, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Thinking gender in transnational times
Lien à la collection : Thinking gender in transnational times
Comprend : Introduction: Empathy, Emotional Politics and Transnationality ; 1. Economies of
Empathy: Obama, Neoliberalism and Social Justice ; 2. Affective (Self-) Transformations:
Empathy, Social Theory 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 ; Conclusions: Empathy
and its Afterlives.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Empathie -- Société
Empathie -- Aspect politique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137275257 (hardback). - ISBN 1137275251 (hardback). - ISBN 9781137275264
(erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442754573
Notice n° :
FRBNF44275457
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