National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political
Autor Angharad Closs Stephensen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2024
In this timely intervention, Angharad Closs Stephens addresses the affective dimensions of being together to open new angles in the study of nationalism and global politics. She asks how the nation is felt in everyday life, as well as differently experienced, and investigates different forms of enacting being together to generate new insights in the study of national identity. National Affects draws on academic theories in the study of Politics, International Relations and Human Geography, as well as stories, performance works and novels, to establish a new tone of critical enquiry. Informed by longstanding critical interrogations of the politics of 'us and them', this book argues that these ideas are not as stable as they are often made to seem.
Drawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions, this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship. In its focus on everyday atmospheres, it identifies new registers for intervening politically. Overall, National Affects outlines other ways of imagining and practising being political together, beyond the exclusionary politics of nationalism.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755641475
ISBN-10: 0755641477
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755641477
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Preface: Moved by the world
National Affects: An Introduction
Chapter 1: The Affective Atmospheres of Nationalism
Chapter 2: Consensus and Resistance at Margaret Thatcher's Funeral
Interlude: A night at the cinema
Chapter 3: Mourning and the Transversal Geographies of Terror
Chapter 4: Vulnerability and the Politics of Action
Interlude: A Hot Afternoon
Chapter 5: Feeling 'Brexit'
Chapter 6: Affective Listening and the Politics of Change
Interlude: Words on a wall
Afterword: Covid-19, the National Frame and Communities of Sense
Bibliography
Index
Preface: Moved by the world
National Affects: An Introduction
Chapter 1: The Affective Atmospheres of Nationalism
Chapter 2: Consensus and Resistance at Margaret Thatcher's Funeral
Interlude: A night at the cinema
Chapter 3: Mourning and the Transversal Geographies of Terror
Chapter 4: Vulnerability and the Politics of Action
Interlude: A Hot Afternoon
Chapter 5: Feeling 'Brexit'
Chapter 6: Affective Listening and the Politics of Change
Interlude: Words on a wall
Afterword: Covid-19, the National Frame and Communities of Sense
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Prose that is theoretically attentive and descriptively evocative. It forms a new 'cultural physics'.
Drawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions, this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship.
I love this book. I began to understand the pull of nationalism through our attachments to the routine and the unremarkable. Angharad Closs Stephens' narrative is subtle and works through the indirectness of art. Her elegant and precise voice induces trust. It reads as if it were music - gentle, complex, and enriching. I want to reread it, assign it, and share it. The topic is crucial and the form compelling. Perhaps only in this way can we begin to unknot nationalisms.
One of the most insightful books on why it matters to think of politics as the circulation of sentiments, moods and atmospheres, to help us understand why people are drawn to xenophobic nationalism as well as find ways of entreating its believers towards the convivial. Angharad Closs Stephens' writing is lucid and passionate, her arguments and case studies magically compelling.
National Affects is one of those rare books that left me feeling as though I had sat down and had the opportunity to think deeply with the author. Angharad Closs Stephens provides penetrating insight into various recent events, from the 2021 Olympics, through Thatcher's funeral, to the 2015 'migration crisis'. Theorising nationalism 'from the street' through conversing with a range of critical scholars and artists, the book is nothing less than a triumph.
Closs-Stephens' National Affects offers an innovative, refreshing take on the divisive, nationalist politics that increasingly characterize the global scene. Beautifully written and wonderfully insightful, National Affects rigorously refuses the false binaries often created through affective atmospheres: being 'with' or 'against' the nation, taking decisive action or being struck by paralysis. An alternative vision is offered in place of these damaging options, one that stresses ambivalence and the everyday capacity to be with others whilst muddling through. This book will be crucial reading for students of political geography, nationalism and the politics of affect.
A meticulously researched exploration into the subtle and emotive underpinnings of contemporary nationalism . Academically rigorous and intellectually stimulating . It is a pivotal contribution to the academic discourse on nationalism in the contemporary world.
Drawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions, this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship.
I love this book. I began to understand the pull of nationalism through our attachments to the routine and the unremarkable. Angharad Closs Stephens' narrative is subtle and works through the indirectness of art. Her elegant and precise voice induces trust. It reads as if it were music - gentle, complex, and enriching. I want to reread it, assign it, and share it. The topic is crucial and the form compelling. Perhaps only in this way can we begin to unknot nationalisms.
One of the most insightful books on why it matters to think of politics as the circulation of sentiments, moods and atmospheres, to help us understand why people are drawn to xenophobic nationalism as well as find ways of entreating its believers towards the convivial. Angharad Closs Stephens' writing is lucid and passionate, her arguments and case studies magically compelling.
National Affects is one of those rare books that left me feeling as though I had sat down and had the opportunity to think deeply with the author. Angharad Closs Stephens provides penetrating insight into various recent events, from the 2021 Olympics, through Thatcher's funeral, to the 2015 'migration crisis'. Theorising nationalism 'from the street' through conversing with a range of critical scholars and artists, the book is nothing less than a triumph.
Closs-Stephens' National Affects offers an innovative, refreshing take on the divisive, nationalist politics that increasingly characterize the global scene. Beautifully written and wonderfully insightful, National Affects rigorously refuses the false binaries often created through affective atmospheres: being 'with' or 'against' the nation, taking decisive action or being struck by paralysis. An alternative vision is offered in place of these damaging options, one that stresses ambivalence and the everyday capacity to be with others whilst muddling through. This book will be crucial reading for students of political geography, nationalism and the politics of affect.
A meticulously researched exploration into the subtle and emotive underpinnings of contemporary nationalism . Academically rigorous and intellectually stimulating . It is a pivotal contribution to the academic discourse on nationalism in the contemporary world.