ABSTRACT
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory.
Using empirical case studies from contexts as diverse as India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and the Americas as well as Europe, the book challenges dichotomous distinctions between private and public. Instead, publics are understood as a relational structure that encompasses both people and their physical and mediatized environment. While each kind of public is affectively constituted, the intensity of its affective attunement varies considerably.
The volume is aimed at academic readers interested in understanding the dynamic and fluid forms of contemporary formation of publics—be it digital or face-to-face encounters as well as in the intersection of both forms. This includes researchers from media and communication studies, social anthropology, theatre or literary studies. It is aimed at advanced students of these disciplines who are interested in the unfolding of contemporary publics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|9 pages
Affective Publics and Their Meaning in Times of Global Crises
part I|56 pages
Places
chapter 3|17 pages
Unhappy Objects
chapter 4|17 pages
Theater Publics in Motion
chapter 5|20 pages
Digital Administrative Publics
part II|123 pages
Networks
chapter 6|17 pages
(Im)Mobility in the Americas and COVID-19
chapter 7|23 pages
Women Activists Imaged through Social Media Publics
part III|81 pages
Media