"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema studies to rethink the body and the affects in terms of technology. Still others explore the affects of trauma in the context of immigration and war. And...
"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety...
"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema studies to rethink the body and the affects in terms of technology. Still others explore the affects of trauma in the context of immigration and war. And...
"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety...
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence.
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business,...
