Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect

ISBN-13: 9781137483188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 258 str.

Britta Timm Knudsen; Carsten Stage

Opis

Affective Methodologies reacts to a challenge: How to trace and understand the immaterial forces of affects as cultural researchers? Its aim is thus to contribute to the development of methodologies that enable cultural researchers and students to investigate affective processes empirically. It defines affective methods as innovative strategies for 1) asking research questions and formulating research agendas relating to affective processes, for 2) collecting or producing embodied data and for 3) making sense of this data in order to produce academic knowledge. It furthermore presents affective research using inventive experiments, embodied forms of fieldwork or innovative approaches to the reading for affects in texts and writing. It presents studies of nightclubs, YouTube memes, political provocations, heritage sites, education development, and haunting memories. In this way, the collection serves as an inspiration for all academics embarking on or developing empirical research strategies to understand affects' predominant role in cultural life.

Recenzje

"Affective Methodologies redefines the way we can work with affect in our research assemblages. In a considered and timely application of affect theory to qualitative research practices, Knudsen and Stage have brought together a diverse collection of scholars. From defining figures in the field such as Blackman and Gibbs, to new voices including To and Kølvraa, this book provides a much needed consolidation of the existing trajectories of scholarship on and of affect while opening new ways forward for qualitative research." - Anna Hickey-Moody, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Affective methodologies; Britta Timm Knudsen and Carsten Stage
Part I: Inventive experiments
2. Researching Affect and Embodied Hauntologies: Exploring an Analytics of Experimentation; Lisa Blackman
3. Experimenting with affects and senses – A performative pop-up-laboratory (self) critically revisited; Dorthe Staunæs and Jette Kofoed
4. Diasporic montage and critical autoethnography: Mediated visions of intergenerational memory and the affective transmission of trauma; Nathan To
Part II: Embodied fieldwork
5. Methods in Motion: Affecting Heritage Research; Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
6. Exploring a ' 'remembering crisis ' ': ' 'Affective attuning ' ' and ' 'assemblaged archive ' ' as theoretical frameworks and research methodologies; Elena Trivelli
7. The scent of a rose: imitating imitators as they learn to love the Prophet; Mikkel Rytter
8. The field note assemblage: Researching the bodily-affective dimensions of drinking and dancing ethnographically; Frederik Bøhling
Part III: Textualities
9. Affect, Provocation and Far Right Rhetoric; Christoffer Kølvraa
10. From Artwork to Net-work: Affective Effects of Political Art; Camilla M. Reestorff
11. Writing as Method: Attunement, Resonance and Rhythm; Anna Gibbs
12. Epilogue; Celia Lury

O autorze

Lisa Blackman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Frederik Bøhling, Aarhus University, Denmark. Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Jette Kofoed, Aarhus University, Denmark. Christoffer Kølvraa, Aarhus University, Denmark. Celia Lury, University of Warwick, UK. Camilla Møhring Reestorff, Aarhus University, Denmark Mikkel Rytter, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dorthe Staunæs, Aarhus University, Denmark Nathan M.L. To, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.  Elena Trivelli, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Emma Waterton, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Steve Watson, York St John University, United Kingdom.