ABSTRACT
Scholars working in the humanities and social sciences have recently developed a range of concepts and frameworks broadly related to the study of human emotions. Some have gone so far as to label this as a “turn to emotions,” or an “affective turn,” thereby suggesting a profound and wideranging reshaping of disciplines and approaches similar to that wrought by the textual or linguistic turn that began in the 1970s. 1 Indeed if the linguistic turn represents our acknowledgment that language helps to constitute reality, then an affective turn implies that emotions have a similarly fundamental role in human experience. Accordingly, this collection of scholarly essays responds to the multidisciplinary shift in focus towards the emotions.
