Analyzing Affective Societies : Methods and Methodologies

In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously shaped by them. However, the literature on the methodological implications of researching affects and emotions remains rather limited.As a collective outcome of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Analyzing Affective Societies introduces procedures and methodologies applied by researchers of the CRC for investigating societies as affective societies. Presenting scholarly research practices by means of concrete examples and case studies, the book does not contain any conclusive methodological advice, but rather engages in illustrative descriptions of the authors'research practices.Analyzing Affective Societies unveils different research approaches, procedures and practices of a variety of disciplines from the humanities, arts and social sciences. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Qualitative Research Methods, Emotions, Affect, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: analyzing affective societies 2 Concepts as methodology: a plea for arrangement thinking in the study of affect Part I Textualities 3 Reading for affect: a methodological proposal for analyzing affective dynamics in discourse 4 Interviews as situated affective encounters: a relational and processual approach for empirical research on affect, emotion and politics 5 Narrating visualized feelings: photovoice as a tool for researching affects and emotions among school students Part II Audiovisualities 6 Images that move: analyzing affect with Aby Warburg 7 The temporal composition of affects in audiovisual media 8 Analyzing affective media practices by the use of video analysis 9 Videography of emotions and affectivity in social situations Part III Performativities 10 Investigating affective media practices in a transnational setting 11 The ethnography of affect in discourse practice: performing sentiment in the time machine 12 Affective dynamics in the theatre: towards a relational and poly-perspectival performance analysis 13 Shared and divided feelings in translingual texts of Emine Sevgi Özdamar: performativity and affective relationality of language, writing and belonging Part IV Reflexivities 14 Researching affects in the clinic and beyond: multi-perspectivity, ethnography, and mental health-care intervention 15 ‘All Eyes Closed’: dis/sensing in comparative fieldwork on affective-religious experiences 16 Fieldwork, ethnography and the empirical affect montage 17 Investigating emotions by using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software: a methodological approach In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously shaped by them. However, the literature on the methodological implications of researching affects and emotions remains rather limited. As a collective outcome of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Affective Societies at Freie Universiteat Berlin, Analyzing Affective Societies introduces procedures and methodologies applied by researchers of the CRC for investigating societies as affective societies. Presenting scholarly research practices by means of concrete examples and case studies, the book does not contain any conclusive methodological advice, but rather engages in illustrative descriptions of the authors' research practices. Analyzing Affective Societies unveils different research approaches, procedures and practices of a variety of disciplines from the humanities, arts and social sciences. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Qualitative Research Methods, Emotions, Affect, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences