Agency and Affect

Description

Thematic readings on Affect

The sessions will include oral presentations of the pre-selected readings (3-4 presentations per session of approx. 5-10 minutes each) followed by free discussion between attendants.
 

Readings:

 

Agamben, Giorgio. 2004. The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Brennan, Teresa.  2004.  “Introduction” Transmission of Affect. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Stoler, A. L. 2004. “Affective States,” Joan Vincent and David Nugent, eds. A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Aretxaga, B. 2003 “Maddening States,” Annual Reviews of Anthropology 32: pp. 393-410.

Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence, Ethos, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun., 1995), pp. 123-148 

 

Open to all.  No registration required

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