Affect and Emotion

Emotion is an important topic in social science. This work - from a leading voice in the field - not only accessibly outlines the research from different fields, but is the first to pull it together to propose an agenda setting proposal for a definitive approach.

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

Chapter 1: Introducing Affect: Lines of Argument
Chapter 2: Bodying Affect: Affective Flows and Their Psychobiological Figuring
Chapter 3: Negotiating Affect: Discourse, Representation and Affective Meaning-Making
Chapter 4: Situating Affect: Interaction, Accountability and the Present Moment
Chapter 5: Solidifying Affect: Structures of Feeling, Habitus and Emotional Capital
Chapter 6: Personalising Affect: Relational Histories, Subjectivities and the Psychosocial
Chapter 7: Circulating Affect: Waves of Feeling, Contagion and Affective Transmission