ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to explore how affective episodes are assembled, composed and figured by the participants; how they are made to mean, the broader cultural resources the participants draw upon, and their semiotic choices and discursive practices. By focusing on Islamophobia as an assemblage of affective registers and emotional practices, she tries to trace its patterns and logics, and unpack the practical, situated and relational basis of its affective and emotional performances. The author argues that anti-halal has generated a specific affective style made up of particular combinations of affective registers that include suspicion, disgust, disorientation and a sense of victimization. She is interested in detangling, via the participants' practices of meaning-making, whether, and if so how, global risks directly impact upon local fears and suspicions. The author identifies a canon of emotional discursive practices and structures of feeling the participants invoke to make meanings of their affects.
