Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times)

Book info: Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times) (Hardcover, 273 pages) – Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Language: English.

Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'. About the Author Carolyn Pedwell is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is author of Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison and co-editor of 'Affecting Feminism: Questions of Feeling in Feminist Theory', a special issue of Feminist Theory.