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Zusatztext Closs-Stephens’ National Affects offers an innovative, refreshing take on the divisive, nationalist politics that increasingly characterize the global scene. Beautifully written and wonderfully insightful, National Affects rigorously refuses the false binaries often created through affective atmospheres: being ‘with’ or ‘against’ the nation, taking decisive action or being struck by paralysis. An alternative vision is offered in place of these damaging options, one that stresses ambivalence and the everyday capacity to be with others whilst muddling through. This book will be crucial reading for students of political geography, nationalism and the politics of affect. Informationen zum Autor Angharad Closs Stephens is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University and author of The Persistence of Nationalism: from imagined communities to urban encounters (2013) . She has published in Citizenship Studies; Emotion, Space and Society; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Cultural Geographies, GeoHumanities and International Political Sociology and has published several short essays in the Society & Space open site . From 2014-17 she was assistant editor for Citizenship Studies and since 2019, is associate editor for the Welsh-language international journal, O’r Pedwar Gwynt. In 2018-19, she was recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a project titled ‘National Affects: towards a political geography of atmospheres’. Klappentext Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces how ideas about 'us and them' take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies of global events that range from the London 2012 Olympic Games to responses to acts of terror, the European refugee crisis and 'Brexit'. In this timely intervention, Angharad Closs Stephens addresses the affective dimensions of being together to open new angles in the study of nationalism and global politics. She asks how the nation is felt in everyday life, as well as differently experienced, and investigates different forms of enacting being together to generate new insights in the study of national identity. National Affects draws on academic theories in the study of Politics, International Relations and Human Geography, as well as stories, performance works and novels, to establish a new tone of critical enquiry. Informed by longstanding critical interrogations of the politics of 'us and them', this book argues that these ideas are not as stable as they are often made to seem. Drawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions, this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship. In its focus on everyday atmospheres, it identifies new registers for intervening politically. Overall, National Affects outlines other ways of imagining and practising being political together, beyond the exclusionary politics of nationalism. Vorwort Through a focus on the affective dimensions of being together, this book examines new approaches, questions and sites in the study of nationalism and global politics. Zusammenfassung Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces how ideas about ‘us and them’ take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both d...
