Main description:

This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions - theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic.

As part of its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of institutional affect. It explores how institutions produce, frame, and condition affective dynamics and emotional repertoires, in ways that engender conformance or resistance to institutional requirements.

This collection of works will be important for scholars and students of interdisciplinary affect and emotion studies from a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, organizational and institution studies, media studies, social philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.

Contents:

1. General Introduction: The Many Lives of Institutions

PART 1: Politics, Publics, Corporate Power

2. Fabricated Feelings: Institutions, Organizations, and Emotion Repertoires

3. Affective Citizenship: Differential Regimes of Belonging in Plural Societies

4. Nationalism, affective recruitment and authoritarianism in post-coup Turkey

5. Under Pressure: Journalism as an Affective Institution

PART 2: Bodies, Materiality, Infrastructure

6. Digital Infrastructuring as Institutional Affect(ing) in German Migration Management

7. Botanical discipline: The senses and more-than-human affect

8. Conflicting Imaginaries in the International Academy

PART 3: Forms, Genres, Aesthetics

9. Genres as Imaginary Institutions

10. Rewriting Education: Genre and Affects of Social Mobility in Contemporary German Literature

11. Right Reading - Affective Institutionalisations and the Politics of Literature in the German New Right

12. Glitching as Institutional Critique

PART 4: Diversity, Care, Critique

13. Affective Diversity, or: Conceptualizing Institutional Change in Postmigrant Societies

14. Working through Affects: Transforming and Challenging Psychosocial Care for Vietnamese Migrants

15. Targeted Alienation: Reimagining the Labour of Abolition

Afterword