Yu Zhang, "Affective-Discursive Practice in Online Medical Consultations in China: Emotional and Empathic Acts, Identity Positions,"
English | ISBN: 9811926425 | 2022 | 166 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides readers with the latest research on the affective aspect of online interactions between doctors and e-patients in the context of China from a poststructuralist discourse analysis perspective. At the heart of this book is the presentation of four chapters which address (1) indirect negative emotional acts by e-patients and empathic acts by doctors (constituting "affective practice"), (2) the interactional discursive features involved in the affective practice, (3) discursive positions of e-patients and doctors within the affective practice context, and (4) power relations that are reflected in the positionings. This book sheds light on the importance of examining the affective facet of medical consultation, when it comes to identifying non-traditional positions and power relations in doctor-patient communication. It also provides the implication that e-healthcare platforms, especially those with an e-commercialized model for healthcare services, have potential to produce a type of neo-liberal discourse―the e-commercialized medical consultation discourse―in which patients and caregivers, who are acknowledged as the less powerful group in the traditional healthcare activities, are empowered and privileged.

Jennifer Cole, "Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration"
English | ISBN: 022640515X | 2016 | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad. It demonstrates how their quotidian efforts-on such a mass scale-contribute to a broader process of social regeneration.

Marie Beauchamps Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the School for Politics and International Relations Q..., "Governing Affective Citizenship: Denaturalization, Belonging, and Repression "
English | ISBN: 1786606771 | 2018 | 186 pages | EPUB | 1083 KB
This book investigates politics of denaturalisation as a system of thought that influences seminal cultural political values, such as community, nationality, citizenship, selfhood and otherness. The context of the analysis is the politics of citizenship and nationality in France. Combining research insights from history, legal studies, security studies, and border studies, the book demonstrates that the language of denaturalisation shapes national identity as a form of formal legal attachment but also, and more counter-intuitively, as a mode of emotional belonging. As such, denaturalisation operates as an instrumental frame to maintain and secure the national community.

Rob Withagen, "Affective Gibsonian Psychology "
English | ISBN: 1032081171 | 2022 | 136 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Affective Gibsonian Psychology presents the first comprehensive ecological approach to our affective engagement with the environment, drawing on James Gibson's new foundation of psychology.

The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life by John Schu
English | May 10th, 2022 | ISBN: 1625312083 | 184 pages | True EPUB | 11.59 MB
With the rise of teacher stressors, new and changing state standards, and high-stakes testing, it is more important than ever to remind literacy teachers and teacher-librarians about the reason that brought them to this profession: the love of story.

Colin Sterling, "Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past "
English | ISBN: 0367135574 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds new light on the role photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and articulation of heritage in diverse sociocultural contexts.

Cognitive-affective neuroscience of depression and anxiety disorders By Dan J Stein
2002 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 020363974X | PDF | 2 MB
Content: Introduction. Major Depression. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Panic Disorder. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Social Anxiety Disorder. Conclusion.

Methodologies of Affective Experimentation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030962717 | 450 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
We live in an era of experimentation - both if we look at the broader social world of politics, media and art and at the narrower context of academic knowledge production. This collection consists of 14 chapters by leading scholars in affect studies. They explore the affective dimensions of experimental practices related to, for example, activism, the COVID-19 pandemic, populism, sustainability, patient communities, music streaming, Jamaican dancehall, gangs, leadership, tourism and minority youth cultures. Experiments are understood as intentionally crafted milieus aimed at (re)presenting unnoticed aspects of the world, as non-linear processes with unpredictable outcomes, and as ways of giving the future a provisional form. The collection responds to a pressing need to understand the intersection between affect, experimentation and sociocultural change by offering empirical strategies to explore how, and with what consequences, experimentation is affective.

Steven Threadgold, "Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1529206618 | PDF | pages: 196 | 1.8 mb
Steven Threadgold's study represents the first comprehensive engagement of Pierre Bourdieu's influential sociology with affect theory. With empirical research and examples from sociology, it develops a theory of "Affective Affinities," deepening our understanding of how everyday moments contribute to the construction and remaking of social class and aspects of inequalities. It identifies new ways to consider the strengths and weaknesses of Bourdieusian principles and their interaction with new developments in social theory. This is a stimulating read for students, researchers and academics across studies in youth, education, labour markets, pop culture, media, consumption and taste.

Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados by Nicole Charles
English | February 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1478015012, 1478017635 | 208 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters. In Suspicion, Nicole Charles reframes Afro-Barbadian vaccine refusal from a question of hesitancy to one of suspicion. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, black feminist theory, transnational feminist studies and science and technology studies, Charles foregrounds Afro-Barbadians' gut feelings and emotions and the lingering trauma of colonial and biopolitical violence. She shows that suspicion, far from being irrational, is a fraught and generative affective orientation grounded in concrete histories of mistrust of government and coercive medical practices foisted on colonized peoples. By contextualizing suspicion within these longer cultural and political histories, Charles troubles traditional narratives of vaccine hesitancy while offering new entry points into discussions on racialized biopolitics, neocolonialism, care, affect, and biomedicine across the Black diaspora.