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Social movements (SMs) protesting against the consequences of the austerity produced by the 2008 great recession leveraged collective participation as a paradigmatic way of revamping democratic institutions and processes. In southern Europe, participation was harnessed by technopolitical movement-parties (MPs) such as the Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy and Podemos in Spain. These are political forces combining SM characteristics with a technopolitical narrative to induce 'e-motions': emotional arousal of the membership produced by idealising the potential of digital technologies to enact unprecedented popular participation to renew democracy. Combining technocracy (popular competence via technopolitics) with populism (people vs elite rhetoric) the M5S and Podemos built a technopopulist discourse able to generate emotional engagement of the membership and high expectations for collective participation. However, the centralism of the leadership and its control over technopolitics produced an individualised model of engagement which led to disillusion. The article firstly elaborates a narrative literature review on participation, technopolitics, movement-parties, populism, and emotions to frame the affective relationship between participation and technopopulism. Secondly it uses qualitative methods to scrutinise the constituent process of M5S and Podemos technopolitics – when the digital process and infrastructures were created within both MPs – outlining the emotions elicited by technopolitical technopopulism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this monograph, we expand and alter our psychoanalytic theory of motivation. Our original contribution of five motivational systems was extended to seven motivational systems which are referred to frequently. They are physiological regulation, attachment, affiliation, caregiving, exploration and preferences, sensuality and sexuality, and aversiveness/withdrawal/antagonism. These seven systems are meant to provide an experiential view of human intentions, feelings, and goals. Seeking, rather than instinctual drive, is the spark that triggers motivational activity; and a person's interest is what directs and sustains seeking. In this monograph, we add to these proposals a still more radical revision of psychoanalytic theory. This revision, if followed, offers a different perspective on what is sought in an analytic therapy. We propose that a common theme that animates all motivational activity is the sense of power. Power refers to the experience of can-do, of being a doer doing. Maintaining a sense of power, when conceptualized as the primary motivational goal of daily life, moves psychoanalytic theory from the abstract to the personal. The main focus in therapy, thus, is moved from past experiences to the greater significance of the present moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the potential for engaging 7 and 8-year-old school pupils in performative literature interpretation through process drama. Inspired by new materialism and affect theory, we focus on how literature interpretations come into being in dramatic fiction, and on how these becoming interpretations merge with the classroom. The study explores interpretive spaces as entangled worlds in mutual engagement of pupils, teachers, and researchers in interpretation through process drama. The study establishes a theoretical framework in pointing out ways in which process drama performances contribute to engage the youngest school pupils in literature interpretation and present social problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the concept of drives as basic motivational neurobiological structures determining the organization of psychic life. I express my agreement with Mark Solms' radical reformulation of the general principles organizing human behaviour at the neurobiological and psychodynamic levels, his combination of Friston's computational information theory and Panksepp's affect systems. I agree with him that the affect systems described by Panksepp constitute the primary drives and that the conflicts between affect systems are the origin of unconscious intrapsychic conflict. I disagree with Solms in my proposition that, while the original unconscious conflicts indeed reflect conflicts between antagonistic affects, I believe that the integration of affect systems into internalized object relations determines a significant motivational shift: now unconscious conflicts are between complex organization of idealized and persecutory object relations at oedipal and preoedipal levels, and no longer between affect systems themselves. At the various developmental levels, the integrated fusion of affective components of these conflicts in effect evolves into libido and aggression as supraordinate motivational systems, but they no longer can be considered biological drives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the affective milieus in the neoliberal university. Previous studies have demonstrated that, despite harsh neoliberal realities, academics still express a love for academic work. This study uses love as its conceptual tool to analyse the different forms of love that academics attach to science. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's theoretisations of affect, this study shows that emotions play a crucial role in organising social order. Emotions work to divide academia into separate ingroups that have different visions of the virtues of science that represent the object of love for its proponents. While analysing higher education magazines with affective-discursive reading, the results of this study show that the neoliberal university favours the forms of love in which the individual ethos and competition are highly valued, while those forms of love that highlight collegial and emancipatory values are on trial. Overall, this study contributes to critical discussions of the neoliberal university by demonstrating the power of emotions in the construction of conflicting, intersecting and overlapping ways of othering and the complex assemblage of affective milieus that exist in today's academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Undergraduate medical education (UGME) has to prepare students to do safety-critical work (notably, to prescribe) immediately after qualifying. Despite hospitals depending on them, medical graduates consistently report feeling unprepared to prescribe and they sometimes harm patients. Research clarifying how to prepare students better could improve healthcare safety. Our aim was to explore how students experienced preparing for one of their commonest prescribing tasks: intravenous fluid therapy (IVFT). Methods: Complexity assumptions guided the research, which used a qualitative methodology oriented towards hermeneutic phenomenology. The study design was an uncontrolled and unplanned complex intervention: judicial review of the iatrogenic death of five children due to hyponatraemia in our region had resulted in the recommendation that students' education in 'the implementation of important clinical guidelines' relevant to fluid and electrolyte balance should be intensified. An opportunity sample of 40 final-year medical students drew and gave audio-recorded commentaries on rich pictures. We completed two template analyses: one of participants' transcribed commentaries on the pictures and one using a novel heuristic to analyse the pictures themselves. We then reconciled the two analyses into a single template. Results: There were four themes: affects, teaching and learning, contradictions, and the curriculum as a journey. To explore interconnections between themes, we chose the picture best exemplifying each of the four themes and interpreted the curriculum journey depicted in each of them. These interpretations were grounded in each participant's picture, verbal account of the picture, and the aggregate findings of the template analysis. Participants' experiences were influenced by the situated complexity of IVFT. Layered on top of that, contradictions, overlaps, and gaps within the curriculum introduced extraneous complexity. Confusion and apprehension resulted. Conclusions: After spending five years preparing to prescribe IVFT, participants felt unprepared to do so. We conclude that intensive teaching had not achieved its avowed goal of improving students' preparedness for safe practice. Merton's seminal work on the 'unanticipated consequences of purposive social action' suggests that intensive teaching may even have contributed to their unpreparedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

:This article analyzes certain works making up the series Folhas (2015) by the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão will be analyzed. The analysis starts from the notion of survival(s), understood in two senses: on the one hand, as a recursive temporality, which does not respond to a linear and progressive structure, and which, therefore, does not merely advance forward, nor is exhausted, but remains latent. On the other hand, the idea of survival is considered in dialogue with studies that address the current ecological crisis. Where the world seems to have been completely lost or is projected to be lost, the notion of survival(s) has a unique connotation: global warming, destruction of nature, loss of biodiversity are some of the factors that, combined with a demographic and civilizational crisis would lead to the time we live in resulting in a present without a future. In this sense, survival(s), the temporal modality proposed here, might be useful to attend to and redefine other non-human temporalities linked to the layers of the earth, to organic and non-organic matter, as well as to other living beings; to alter, or desynchronize the human temporal experience in order to synchronize it with a different temporality through which it is possible to think, imagine, suppose and invite areas, regions, affective territories crossed by contradictions and tensions to emerge. That is, to propose hospitable alternatives, expanded and expansive forms for being in the world that are affective rather than essentialist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes three works that establish dialogues through their materiality, their work with temporality, and the theme of environmental disaster: La infancia del mundo (2023), a dystopian novel written by Michel Nieva; the photographic series Antropogénico (2023) by Daniel Taveira and the performance Mil (quase) Mortos: Boiúna (2019) by Uýra Sodoma. They are aesthetic practices that contrast in their ways of feeling, thinking, and acting on our planetary emergency as experienced in South America. Narration, photographs, and performance present relational and affective frameworks that dialogue with people involved in the growing devastation of the environment. The affective dimension of the corpus is analyzed based on the specific relationship with time. If Nieva and Taveira work on futurizations (Gatto), Uýra Sodoma refers to the precarious present—in Fabião’s sense—in a putrid Manaus. On the other hand, the dimension of affects in the subjects is part of the adaptation tools of the living thing observed at the inter-body level (Giorgi). In this essay, we study the bodies affected by risk imaginaries: some affections place perception as another mode of cognition and meaning (Depetris Chauvin and Taccetta). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This piece explores the effects of the war in Ukraine on Colombia's coal industry and the contrasting affective responses of different actors. The stark contrast between environmental and Indigenous activists' anger and the industry representatives' optimism about the revival of coal exports evidences the tension between the climate policies of the current Colombian government and the longstanding pattern of export‐led economies in Latin America, a path difficult to break. Nonetheless, the situation enables a space to discuss how a 'just transition' would look for regions dependent on coal and, importantly, when that transition will be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Affects and all its variants (affection, allure, affective force, etc.) represent our via regia to be alive and connected with our life-world. It is not the ego that constitutes the world we live in but the affections that allow us to become respectively objects of our life and subjects of our own choices. Affects are in fact main triggers of lower and higher feelings through which we become subjects and experience empathy with other people, intersubjectively connecting with them and making ethical choices that are hopefully considerate of ourselves and our community. Yet it might happen that our feelings are not capable of truly feeling what we are affected by. When this happens, what affects us remains with us but cannot be felt and accordingly processed. In this paper, I will first work on the term affect and its variants. I will then describe how this connects with feelings. To finally analyze what happens when we are not capable of feeling our affects as in the case of alexithymia; or when we feel our affects too much as in the case of BPD; or when we do not want to feel certain affects as in the case of NPD. The main conceptual reference of this analysis will be Husserl and his static and genetic phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During 2019, we embarked on a fieldwork based on 18 semi-structured interviews with international scholars in the humanities and social sciences in Chilean universities to explore their experiences with knowledge. Drawing on theories of critique and neoliberalism, we analyzed their ambivalent and unsettling conjunction of attachments to neoliberal and critical knowledge formations. By developing the notion of regime of epistemic subjectification, we emphasized the affective intensities these experiences brought to bear amid the differential weight and interplay of neoliberalism and critique as ethico-epistemic modes of engagement. We argued that the dominant focus on neoliberal knowledge and entrepreneurial subjectivity, albeit intense, expansive, and seemingly omnipresent, must be complicated by exposing its ambivalent affective and somatic force, and recognizing the difference between critical academic products and the lived experience of critique. The latter was constituted in the outsides of the inside of the neoliberal knowledge regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En psycho-oncologie, les travaux sur la dynamique temporelle des expériences affectives et les processus de régulation associés restent encore peu nombreux. Par conséquent, cet article a pour premier objectif de faire un état des travaux sur la dynamique affective via un recueil longitudinal intensif auprès de personnes atteintes d'un cancer à travers une revue narrative de la littérature. Par la suite, son objectif est de permettre aux chercheurs et aux psychologues de mettre en place cette méthode auprès de personnes atteintes d'un cancer en proposant des recommandations. Notre revue narrative (n = 6) met en évidence d'importantes variations affectives au cours de la journée chez les personnes atteintes d'un cancer, ainsi que des relations intra-individuelles entre affects et d'autres variables telle que la fatigue. Cependant, il est important de relever que les études recensées présentent des protocoles hétérogènes, et qu'aucune étude ne cible la dynamique affective et ses relations avec les processus de régulation. Une seconde partie des résultats construite sur les bases des études recensées comprend des recommandations concernant la réalisation d'études via des recueils longitudinaux intensifs. Notre revue narrative met en avant l'intérêt de développer les études basées sur un recueil longitudinal intensif auprès de personnes atteintes de cancer. L'utilisation d'une telle méthode au travers du cadre rigoureux établi, permettrait d'obtenir des indices valides de dynamique affective permettant de mieux comprendre les processus de régulation affective face à la maladie en milieu écologique. In psycho-oncology, research into the affective dynamics and regulation is still scarce. Consequently, the first aim of this study is to carry out a state of works on affective dynamics using experience sampling method in cancer patients through a narrative review of the literature. Then, its second objective is to enable researchers and psychologist to implement this method with cancer patients, by proposing recommendations. Our narrative review (n = 6) highlights significant affective variations throughout the day in cancer patients, thus intra-individual relationships between affects and other variables such as fatigue. However, it is important to note that the studies reviewed present heterogeneous protocols, and that none of them targets affective dynamics and their relationships with regulatory processes. The second part of the results is based on the studies reviewed, and includes recommendation for conducting studies using experience sampling method. Our narrative review highlights the value of developing studies based on experience sampling method from cancer patients. The use of this method, within the rigorous framework established, would make it possible to obtain valid indices of affective dynamics that would provide a better understanding of affective regulation to cope illness in ecological environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the affective and situated aspects of enacting public schooling within a burgeoning economy of digital platforms. Drawing on a series of conversations with two teachers and two school leaders at a Danish primary school, the article examines how the increasing involvement of educational platforms in schools reshapes who and what matters in the everyday life of the school. The article highlights different ways in which platforms entangle with educational practices and relations beyond their functional promises to save time, promote efficiency, solve administrative issues, and other related tasks. As generative forces based on relocating educational phenomena within a proprietary digital architecture, the analysis illustrates how the involvement of platforms becomes co-constitutive of new forms of affective attachments and loyalty that challenge historical configurations of pluralism in public schools. Drawing on these constitutive effects, the article introduces Lauren Berlant's notion of cruel optimism to discuss the implications of sustaining public schooling within a largely unregulated economy of platform subscriptions. The article's discussions call for closer political and scholarly attention to the educational consequences of enacting school within the economic conditions of current platform capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the emotional aspects central to the ethical, political, social and educational tensions (Hirsch & Moisan, 2022) related to the teaching of sensitive subjects at the post-secondary level and the processes by which affects can structure the relationship to diversity and guide teaching strategies. Based on testimonials from faculty and students gathered as part of a research project on strategies for teaching sensitive topics in the context of diversity, we aimed to improve our understanding of the effects of numerous emotional registers in the classroom and their influence on teaching approaches related to diversity and sensitivities.

Images in popular culture provide essential information about the socio-political situation and the self-realisation of gender roles in society. The transformation of women characters in Iranian films after the 1980s has occupied a certain space in scholarship, however everyday self-experiences in the streets and its relation to self realization and women figures are barely included into the analysis. Based on learning from experience, affect and performance theory, this paper focesses on two prominent female stars of Iranian cinema: Niki Karimi and Hediye Tehrani as image transformers in a period of cultural evolution and the smile of women that fades away from the streets. The analysis begins with a general examination of the interaction between politics and culture through the main currents in Iranian cinema. In this part, a periodization of the post-revolution era in Iran is presented through cultural products, especially Iranian films such as the religious era, the war and post-war era, the pastoral era, and the critical era. The last part compares two famous women's images, Niki Karimi and Hediye Tehrani, and shows how this periodization helps to understand the changes in women’s self realization and body politics in everyday life after the revolution.

The removal of undocumented migrants has become a widespread preoccupation of current European migration politics and one of the most emotionally contentious state practices of our times. Not only right-wing populists and their constituencies demand an increase in expulsions, but also mainstream society. Others accuse these positions of being racist or lacking humanism and instead promote solidarity to help people seeking protection in Europe. These divisive views and migrants’ often long-term experience of being ‘unwanted’ and deportable provoke strong and often irreconcilable emotions. The ethnographic explorations assembled here zoom in on the ‘affective economies’ inherent in the arbitrary processes and unpredictable experiences of removals of people from Europe to different parts of the world. This special issue puts forward a twofold argument: First, conceptually, we argue that a focus on affects is indispensable in order to fully unearth the complexities of removal processes. And second, methodologically, we contend that an ethnographic approach, with its deep and often long-term commitment of researchers to their respective field(s) including multiple actors, is essential to comprehensively grasp the affective economy of removal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decade, there has been a strong focus on studying individuals' responses to stigmatisation, discrimination and racism, while the question of how individuals recognise and make sense of an exclusionary event, has been largely side-lined. To fill in this gap, this study leverages an affect-theoretically informed reformulation of Essed's (1991, Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory. London: Sage) classic concept of 'comprehension of racism' to investigate how individuals understand and make sense of experiences of ethnoracial exclusion. Empirically, the article analyses 419 experiences/incidents of ethnoracial exclusion reported in 66 semi-structured interviews with highly educated, second and 1.75 generation immigrants representing three 'groups' of Germans who (may) experience exclusion due to their migrant background: Germans of Polish migrant background, Black Germans and Germans of Turkish migrant background. The study identifies three modes by which interviewees talked about exclusionary experiences/incidents: (1) by normalisation (interpreting an experience/incident as 'normal'), (2) by categorisation (identifying an experience/incident as, e.g. 'racist', 'discriminatory', or 'disadvantaging') or (3) by indicating feelings of unease. For each of the three modes, the article outlines the role of affects and emotions in interviewees' narratives, provides insight into the types of experiences/incidents for which the modes were used and highlights differences between the three groups of respondents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Traffic climate affect safety driving. • Psychological factors play mediating roles. In the research field of safe driving behavior, the emergence of prosocial driving research complements the more traditional dangerous driving research. In recent years, studies on the relationship between the urban traffic climate and prosocial driving have even been taken as a new direction for further improving urban traffic safety based on the construction of traffic safety facilities and the development of traffic safety regulations. The mechanism by which urban traffic climate affects prosocial driving is explored in this study. From a dual research perspective, i.e., a variable-centered and person-centered perspective, a theoretical model of prosocial driving is constructed based on the following three levels: environmental, psychological and behavioral. According to the results, First, rational, affective and moral factors at the individual psychological level play mediating roles between urban traffic climate at the environmental level and prosocial driving behavior at the behavioral level. As indicated by the results of a mediating pathway analysis, rational, affective and moral factors are intricately linked by five complex mediating paths at the psychological level. Second, there is a differentiated environmental-psychological activation mechanism between individuals' prosocial driving and aggressive driving. Third, urban traffic climate consists of a variety of typical safety climate types, and individuals have diverse psychological tendencies regarding safe driving in traffic climates of varying safety levels. The study concludes with a systematic discussion of its theoretical contributions and practical value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Research shows that emotional intelligence (EI) should be used alongside cognitive intelligence during requirements change (RC) handling in Software Engineering (SE), especially in agile settings. Objective: We wanted to study the role of EI in-depth during RC handling. Method: We conducted a mixed-methods study (an interview study followed by a survey study) with 124 software practitioners. Findings: We found the causal condition, intervening condition and causes lead to key direct consequences of regulating own emotions, managing relationships, and extended consequences of sustaining productivity, setting and sustaining team goals. We found several strategies of supporting EI during RC handling. Further, we found strong correlations between six strategies and one being aware of own emotions, regulating own emotions, sustaining team productivity, and setting and sustaining team goals. Conclusion: Empathising with others and tracking commitments and decisions as a team are key strategies that have strong correlations between managing emotions, between sustaining team productivity, and between setting and sustaining team goals. To the best of our knowledge, the framework we present in this paper is the first theoretical framework on EI in SE research. We provide recommendations for software practitioners to consider during RC handling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Growing attention has been directed towards affects and emotions in the New Testament texts within recent scholarship over the course of the past two decades. Although biblical exegesis of the 20th century suspected psychological interpretations of New Testament texts of being highly subjective and hence frail, recent research has developed a number of approaches that allow for addressing the subject in a methodologically controlled way. The aim of the present article is to review important monographs from the field of New Testament emotion research with special attention to their particular focuses and research methods. Despite some degree of overlap between these perspectives, six major areas of scholarly work can be identified: (1) "text psychology" that explains New Testament findings against the backdrop of modern psychological theories; (2) historical psychology that explores ancient notions of the affects; (3) narratology that observes recurring a narrative pattern in ancient descriptions of the affects; (4) rhetorical criticism that traces the rhetorical presentation of affects as well as the capability of rhetorical language to evoke affects in the addressees; (5) philosophy of the body that examines the bodily aspects of psychological dynamics; and finally (6) social history that identifies social functions of collective affects, e.g., in the formation and stabilization of social groups. After introducing each of these approaches briefly, the affect of desire (gr. ἐπιθυμία) will serve as a test case to demonstrate the possibilities and usefulness that the different perspectives offer. This way, it becomes clear that affects are by no means a by-product of theological teaching in the New Testament, but in fact indicators of true relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of socio-ecological change, developing people-nature connections in cities could potentially improve city dwellers' well-being while developing an attachment to other living beings. Increasing wildness by limiting management interventions may promote biodiversity in cities, but little is known about the ways in which city dwellers relate to wild places. In this study, we analyse how city dwellers use and experience an urban near-wild river flowing through the centre of a historic French city. We firstly presented the interweaving of historical cultural components and ecological processes that shaped the river. Based on behavioural mapping and questionnaires, we then investigated three different dimensions of user-river relationships (activities, affects and cognitions) and analysed how they are modulated by individual features. Users' activities were diverse and spatially related to facilities (i.e. benches, types of ground cover), and they mainly perceived the river as a place of appeasement and relaxation. Wild elements such as birds, flora and water were more notable components of places than historic architectural elements, and users preferred riverbank vegetation with high structural complexity. However, plant and animal species living along the river were not well known. Users' age and visit frequency were positively correlated with some components of affects and knowledge, but users' features had only modest explanatory power. The results refine our understanding of city dwellers' perceptions and attachment to urban wild places, and provide inspiration for designing places that promote biodiversity and enrich experiences of nature in cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beyond the politics exercised in and from institutions, individuals use their power resources to maintain or challenge political structures through micropolitics stimulated by affective technologies, pursuing, in Spinozist terms, that common soul that is reached more through affects than through reason (Lordon, 2018, p. 233). Based on empirical cases taken from the Catalan social reality of recent years, this article will analyse the so-called Catalonia of the Procés, mainly using conceptual tools such as the notion of micropolitics and that of affective technology, which are particularly suitable for exploring the politics of emotions and which even allow to think of a structuralism of passions (Lordon, 2018). In this way, instead of considering the ideas of agency and structure as antinomic, the continuous interplay between these different dimensions of reality is recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flags are national objects capable of storing and maintaining divergent affections and releasing them at a given moment. This article aims to understand the emotional functioning of flags in the Catalan sovereignty movement. To do so, we try to describe how the national flags that appear in the Catalan conflict (the blue Estelada, the yellow Estelada and the Spanish Constitutional flag), make different and contradictory affects flourish in the sovereignty movement, are framed in diverse affective processes, and acquire an emotional directionality and location that create and configure political and affective boundaries within Catalan independence. To identify emotions and affects, we perform an affective elicitation of free narration about the flags-in-conflict to activists and people close to the Catalan sovereignty and secessionist movement. As a result, affective cartographies are constructed for each flag and relate the elicited affects with the political and social organizations of Catalan sovereignty. The data show that what we feel and what moves us is apprehended in a process of constant political interaction between material-semiotic objects and subjects; that is, the idea of a politicization of affects is reaffirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Queer," once a derogatory term to refer to sexual minorities, has been recently celebrated as "the fashion avant-garde of our times" through genderqueer self-expression. Despite increased visibility in fashion, research on the feelings and daily practices surrounding genderqueer style remains scarce. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the everyday practices and emotions of non-binary individuals, using the wardrobe as a conceptual framework. Genderqueer forms of self-expression, despite its emergence, have been notably under-explored. In order to address this gap, we ask the question- how do non-binary people assemble their styles in relation to how they feel? We respond to this question through a case study involving thirteen in-depth interviews and social media analysis exploring how non-binary people style themselves, navigate societal constraints, and emotionally engage with clothing. Findings suggest that non-binary individuals assemble their styles to achieve bold contrast, resisting gender norms and navigating the gender spectrum as an exercise of self-acceptance. Their wardrobe assembly is a form of self-identification and self-expression, influenced by spatial considerations that can amplify or conceal gender expression. By theorizing these practices, this study contributes to understanding diverse gender identities in fashion studies and deepens our understanding of fashion and affects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article begins, as a trigger, by analyzing a meme about the stereotype of Latin American violence in literature as an essentialist, decontextualized evil that plagues, without nuances, our continent to warn the importance of its location in specific, situated forms. in its full historicity. In this sense, in the second section, three lines or routes are proposed within the Argentine literary production of the 21st century that refers to three historical moments: the violence of the founding of the nation in the revisits to the classic of our literature, El gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández; the violence of State Terrorism installed during the last civic-military dictatorship and its effects on the generation of children; In relation to the last route, what we can broadly call the different modalities of violence of the patriarchal system within the framework of the productions of women and other gender identities. Finally, taking into account the last line, it stops at the figure of Camila Sosa Villada whose writing project is formulated from a key affective gesture: writing as a scratch at the world; a writing that operates a tear in contemporary literary discourse to make transvestite existence visible. The story "Cotita de la Encarnación" elaborates negative affects from sexual, generic and racial difference as a way of validating existence in the face of oppression and opprobrium suffered by the queer world in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the leadership of the local Catholic Church in a forceful social movement of resistance against long-dated marginalization, inequality, and multi-faceted forms of violence in the main city-port in Colombia's pacific littoral: Buenaventura's Civic Strike process. Based on interviews conducted with religious and lay participants, it explores how spiritual memory, social space, and collective affects act as the enabling condition for this leadership, a condition that the interviewees characterize as a relation of trust between people and Church. The paper argues that this affect of trust implies complex intersections between social protest, Church and State that require, in turn, a different conceptualization of the social space. One that challenges secularism as an epistemology of the social by overcoming its distinctive clear-cut divisions between Church and State, and between State and civil society. The notion of "churchstateness," proposed in recent literature, is hence tested as an alternative analytic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text highlights the importance of managing the passions, affections and emotions in neoliberal Fear politics. Thanks to the thinking of Sara Ahmed who analyses how today the workings of emotions are economic, talking about „affective economies.“ The production model of the emotions of Ahmed puts forward a critique of the privatisation and the psychologising of emotions, given that emotions are performative in their circulation. Returning to the idea of affect of shame as a transformational performance of Eve Kosofky Sedgwick, the text also explores the performative potential that can be deployed in a process of collectivisation of shame against the neoliberal politics of fear and hate whether that be in the context of activism, contemporary art or the production of images.

The authors discuss the relevance of aesthetic and affective experience at the heart of the human being’s capability to relate to the world and to found relations of sense. Faced with anguish that the world can be meaningless and with fear of uncertainty/ chaos, trust and hope are needed for the world to be a hospitable place for existence. Such experience is aesthetic, sensitive and affective before being rational, reflective and deliberative. Through a dialogue between Kant, Winnicott and Bion, it is shown how foundation of trust is based on two essential aspects: (1) The illusion that reality was created to allow us to live in it (namely, the fictionality is a prerequisite for each possible development of psyche) and (2) this illusion is not generated by a solipsistic activity of the human mind; rather, it is made possible starting from the primordial relationship with the other, by containing anguish, nourishing trust and hope, and supporting psychic development and elaboration of progressive forms of symbolisation. The authors discuss how these points have a profound aesthetic implication through deepening the reflection on the ontogenetic development of the psyche, the complex intertwining between primary and secondary processes, and clinical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Images in popular culture provide essential information about the socio-political situation and the self-realisation of gender roles in society. The transformation of women characters in Iranian films after the 1980s has occupied a certain space in scholarship, however everyday self-experiences in the streets and its relation to self realization and women figures are barely included into the analysis. Based on learning from experience, affect and performance theory, this paper focesses on two prominent female stars of Iranian cinema: Niki Karimi and Hediye Tehrani as image transformers in a period of cultural evolution and the smile of women that fades away from the streets. The analysis begins with a general examination of the interaction between politics and culture through the main currents in Iranian cinema. In this part, a periodization of the post-revolution era in Iran is presented through cultural products, especially Iranian films such as the religious era, the war and post-war era, the pastoral era, and the critical era. The last part compares two famous women's images, Niki Karimi and Hediye Tehrani, and shows how this periodization helps to understand the changes in women's self realization and body politics in everyday life after the revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the acknowledged benefits of digital storytelling in fostering language development, investigations into its cognitive and affective dimensions in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) education, especially concerning high and low achievers, have been scarce. This study, therefore, aimed to scrutinize the effects of multimodal digital storytelling presentations on storytelling outcomes and emotional responses of high and low achievers within an EFL context. The study enlisted 52 sophomore students from a private university in central Taiwan. Over a 14-week research period, participants were tasked with creating two digital storytelling presentations: the first employing PowerPoint and the second utilizing Book Creator. Data collection encompassed two questionnaires gauging positive/negative affective states and enjoyment in digital storytelling, along with reflective journals. The results underscored the superiority of Book Creator over PowerPoint in enhancing digital storytelling presentation quality. High-achieving students reported heightened positive affective experiences and a greater sense of enjoyment compared to their low-achieving peers. However, both groups exhibited comparable levels of negative affect, suggesting the existence of anxiety despite the presence of positive emotions during the learning process. This study contributes by emphasizing the equitable significance of cognitive and affective facets within technological multimodality, thereby illuminating the multifaceted essence of EFL learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the configuration of families between humans and companion animals, focusing on the shifting domestic dynamics and the rise of pet families in urban milieus. These configurations represent characteristic ways of living in the context of youth middleclass sectors in the 21st century. At a methodology level, we conducted a survey, 27 in-depth interviews, and a review of 3,000 profiles on social networks and dating apps of youth users from Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Over the past decades, family subjectivation devices have undergone a global transformation. While these changes coexist with classical arrangements, especially in large cities, there is an increasing prevalence of affective bonds, forms of cohabitation, economic agreements, vital commitments, and even decisions regarding having or not having children that overflow the historical meanings of the family. Therefore, the construction of analyses such as "ways of living together" seeks to decenter the family configuration as the sole matrix of analysis by linking these practices with broader transformations that can be contemplated within the realm of "the common." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the role of spiritual ceremonies known as "mystics" in the popular politics of grassroots organizations in Colombia. Based on an ethnographic approach to the Popular and Spiritual Inauguration of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, I argue that the mystic constitutes an experimental and popular form of political (re)composition that involves the institution, activation, and/or reorientation of affective ties between bodies. I also propose that this ceremony constitutes a form of political articulation that works with and produces difference without the promise of a synthesis, the success of which depends on being flexible enough to allow the entry within popular and institutional politics of historically marginalized aesthetic, spiritual, and political sensibilities linked to different horizons of struggle. In the end, the article reflects on the place of bodies, materiality, and aesthetics in the processes of political (re)composition. Resumen: El artículo aborda el papel de las ceremonias espirituales conocidas como "místicas" en la política popular de organizaciones de base en Colombia. A partir de una aproximación etnográfica a la Posesión Popular y Espiritual de Gustavo Petro y Francia Márquez, sostengo que la mística constituye una forma experimental y popular de (re)composición política que pasa por la institución, activación y/o reorientación de vínculos afectivos entre los cuerpos. Planteo, así mismo, que la mística constituye una forma de articulación política que trabaja con y produce la diferencia sin la promesa de una síntesis, cuyo éxito depende de ser lo suficientemente flexible para permitir la entrada en la política popular e institucional de sensibilidades estéticas, espirituales y políticas históricamente marginadas, ligadas a diferentes horizontes de lucha. Al final, el artículo reflexiona sobre el lugar de los cuerpos, la materialidad y la estética en los procesos de (re)composición política. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction outlines the contemporary emergence of new forms of informal crisis-related care, which both complement and contradict classical forms of humanitarian assistance. The introduction traces the spread, blurring, and differentiation of novel forms of non-state assistance and support against the backdrop of increasingly widespread criticism of large-scale international aid. Tackling regimes of care beyond the exceptionality of a crisis notion, the introduction then summarizes how the three contributions and the commentary to this theme section employ the lens of affect for exploring how these highly intersubjective forms of encounter are experienced, performed, and reflected on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called "refugee crisis" in 2015. This article examines this claim by focusing on right-wing populist frames and affective communication on migration in Austria and Slovenia. Taking a communication-centred approach, the study is based on a critical frame analysis of 70 speeches from far-right to centre-right parties in parliamentary debates on migration between 2015 and 2019. The results show that right-wing populist discourses in the two adjacent countries have aligned in appealing to affects, particularly to fear and in framing migration as a threat to security and culture. Despite differences in mobilizing affects, the findings indicate a mutual alignment of right-wing populism beyond borders, signalling a potential risk of a broader right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the RST-AQ, a 22-item scale to measure the affective states related to the three motivational systems postulated by Reinforcement Sensitivity theory (RST-AQ): the Behavioral approach system (BAS), Behavioral inhibition system (BIS), and the Fight-Flight-Freeze system (FFFS). The three subscales are internally consistent. Results show an overall support for construct validity of our RST-AQ measure. The correlations of the RST-AQ subscales with other measures demonstrate a good convergent and divergent validity with regard to the subscales of BAS and BIS. The RTS-AQ Scale provides researcher with the first instrument to measures the affective states of the RST theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• There is a shift from a perspective biased towards visual methods to a broader understanding of the multisensory phenomenon known as "sensescape". Yet, the interplay among senses remains underexplored. • There is a lack of a universally agreed-upon definition for certain affects which are often characterized by their longer durations, ambiguity, and irreducibility. • Some functional studies explore attitudes to enhance cycling rates, while identity research emphasizes local context. Identities of cyclists in our sample face marginalization, stigma, disadvantage, and invisibility. • Retrospective surveys and interviews are dominant, but growing interest in mobile methods enhances real-time and context-specific data collection. • The positive values of cycling experiences have been largely ignored in our sample of studies, suggesting that the dominant narrative is still guided by the assumption that mobility is a disutility. When evaluating cycling subjective experiences (CSE), mobility researchers have questioned the depictions of cycling as an efficient, fast, and solitary mobility mode. By reframing cycling in terms of its emotional impact on the cyclist, research to date has explored dimensions such as fun, relaxation, and sociability of cycling experiences. Yet, these insights have not been integrated into a holistic understanding of CSE. Addressing this gap, this paper asks: what is the CSE exactly and how do we measure it? We selected and analysed in-depth 50 articles with the aim of unpacking the innate characteristics of CSE. The paper makes a contribution to the research on CSE by presenting a novel framework that clarifies the relationships within existing literature, and identifies measurement methods aligned with this framework. The three interrelated core aspects of CSE are 1) sensory interpretation, 2) affective states, and 3) cognitive construction. Additionally, the three identified methods are 1) retrospective, 2) interceptive, and 3) mobile methods. Notably, retrospective surveys and interviews emerged as the dominant methods employed in the field. However, there has been a growing interest in mobile methods, which enable the collection of real-time and context-specific data, thereby enhancing the generalizability of research findings. Through our analysis we have found that the positive values of cycling experiences have been largely ignored in our sample of studies, revealing a bias of researchers to focus on mobility as a disutility. Based on our findings, we urge planners and scholars to rethink their implicit efforts to mitigate the negative effects of cycling experiences and look for opportunities to optimize for positive cycling experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the 'performativity of disgust' as a feminist strategy that takes place in various instances of menstrual activism. The analysis is based on an ethnographic study in Spain, which focused on alternative politics and cultures of menstruation that question the negative hegemonic Western vision of menstruation. By analysing the debates around gender, feminism, and corporality that arise in this field, the article highlights alternative corporal and menstrual imaginaries. The article contributes to and extends critical menstruation studies by exploring how feminist activists who engage in menstrual politics produce an aesthetic of disgust by reappropriating the abject, and in so doing, question the politics of menstrual disgust and gender inequalities. Paying special attention to collective initiatives that take place in public space, viewed as a place of social transformation, the article sheds light on how challenging the notion that 'menstruation is disgusting' can help us question gender and social inequalities, and promote social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses some of the governmental issues at stake in contemporary institutional politics in its confrontation with the challenges of digitalisation. Through notions such as algorithmic governmentality (Rouvroy and Berns), platformisation (Bratton, Stiegler), extractivism, and the affect theory (Massumi), and following a symptomatologic method, we will try to establish and discuss some key points that could be useful in order to update certain concepts regarding micro- and biopolitics (Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault), the public sphere, and the management of social and individual bodies. Finally, we will try to understand how the manipulation of affects via the staging of possible catastrophic futures (Parisi) is used as a powerful neurosensory weapon, with performative effects for governing and modelling behaviours. If contemporary capitalism is capable of abstracting and extracting affects, of accumulating them and of creating value through this, which policies should we apply in this situation of uncertainty and of the manipulation of affectivity? Is there any place left for public institutions, or is the market the sole political actor left? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]