Affective world-making : routing planetary thought / edited by Simi Malhotra, Sakshi Dogra and Jubi C. John.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malhotra, Simi, editor.

Dogra, Sakshi, editor.

John, Jubi C., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology) in art.

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Simi Malhotra has a cumulative experience of more than twenty-two years of teaching and research guidance at PhD, MPhil, and postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her latest publications are the co-authored/co-edited books Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (2022), Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (2021), Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021), and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021). She is the recipient of several grants and awards, the latest being the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award. Sakshi Dogra currently teaches English literature and language at Gargi College (University of Delhi) as Assistant Professor. She is also a PhD research scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is broadly interested in affect theory; study of moods and atmospheres; and emotions, feelings, and their function in constituting people and cultures. She has co-edited Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021) and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021), both published by Springer Nature. She is also the co-editor of Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories (2020). She has presented papers at both national and international conferences. Jubi C. John is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She was the co-chief organizer of the Young Researchers' Conference on 'As a Matter of Affect: Making Sense of Planetarity,' conducted by the Department of English, JMI. Her PhD thesis looks at corporeal subjectivity, body politics, and sexual dynamics in Caribbean Island Women's narratives. Her research interests are in the field of embodiment and desire, popular culture and digital spaces, island studies, and memory studies. Previously, she has delivered lectures at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia.

Contents:

Travel, Medical Affect and the Romantic Planetarity / Soumava Maiti

The YouTube Reaction Video as a site of Affective Fan Practices / Ananya Punyatoya

The Politics of Pain and Anger: Representing Sexual Trauma in Graphic Narratives / Amrita Singh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Affective world-making

ISBN:

9781003461593

100346159X

9781003800828

1003800823

9781003802228

1003802222

Publisher Number:

40032128709

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.