Affinities : potent connections in personal life / Jennifer Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Jennifer, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2018.

Summary:

"What does it mean when a life is changed through the serendipity of a chance encounter? How is it that someone can feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a chance encounter with a smell or a texture or a song? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless. In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities - potent charges and charismatically lively connections in our relationalities, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world, which she names the socio-atmospherics of everyday life. The book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range of sociology, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Sensations of Living 5

Part 2 Ineffable Kinship 57

Part 3 Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mason, Jennifer, 1958- Affinities.

ISBN:

9780745664637

0745664636

9780745664644

0745664644

OCLC:

993999489