Read Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China

Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China

Shih-diing Liu

4.9/5 (26131 ratings)

Description:The growing political conflicts unfolded in China provides an opportunity for rethinking the cultural politics of affect. Although the political formations in the region can be laden with a multitude of emotions, they tend to be poorly understood. This book explains why affect and emotion matter to Chinese politics from the Mao Zedong to thr Xi Jinping era. It makes a unique contribution by investigating why and how affect matters to politics through a series of indepth case studies of various art forms. It studies the dynamics of political passions and the contexts from which emotional subjects engage in hegemonic struggles through the creation of various cultural forms. Topics discussed include the mobilisation of revolutionary emotions in political movements, the desire of nationalism, the virtual affective space created by antagonistic identity politics, the subaltern body as a surface of emotion work, and the blurring of publicprivate divides on social media. This book finds that cultural feelings and emotional experiences are salient to understanding political life, action and order. It concludes that the formulation and reconfiguration of the affective space are essential to political struggle.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China. To get started finding Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1399518267

Description: The growing political conflicts unfolded in China provides an opportunity for rethinking the cultural politics of affect. Although the political formations in the region can be laden with a multitude of emotions, they tend to be poorly understood. This book explains why affect and emotion matter to Chinese politics from the Mao Zedong to thr Xi Jinping era. It makes a unique contribution by investigating why and how affect matters to politics through a series of indepth case studies of various art forms. It studies the dynamics of political passions and the contexts from which emotional subjects engage in hegemonic struggles through the creation of various cultural forms. Topics discussed include the mobilisation of revolutionary emotions in political movements, the desire of nationalism, the virtual affective space created by antagonistic identity politics, the subaltern body as a surface of emotion work, and the blurring of publicprivate divides on social media. This book finds that cultural feelings and emotional experiences are salient to understanding political life, action and order. It concludes that the formulation and reconfiguration of the affective space are essential to political struggle.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China. To get started finding Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China

Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China

More Books

Shih-Diing Liu

Shih-Diing Liu

The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (Global Modernity)

The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (Global Modernity)

Social Media Uprising in the Chinese-speaking World

Social Media Uprising in the Chinese-speaking World

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations (Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development)

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations (Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development)