Life from the fragments: ambivalence, critique and minoritarian affect
Life from the fragments: ambivalence, critique and minoritarian affect
In this piece, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford? We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable discussions of power, domination and violence. We offer a reading of the relations between affirmation and negativity through ‘minoritarian affects’ – a reading that arises in the midst of living through racial capitalism, coloniality, patriarchy, and heteronormativity and which builds an indeterminate future from the fragments of our lives and bodies.
affect, affect theory, affirmation, ambivalence, critique, negativity, queer affec
Wilkinson, Eleanor
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Lim, Jason
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Wilkinson, Eleanor
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Lim, Jason
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Wilkinson, Eleanor and Lim, Jason
(2021)
Life from the fragments: ambivalence, critique and minoritarian affect.
Dialogues in Human Geography, 11 (1).
(doi:10.1177/2043820621995627).
Abstract
In this piece, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford? We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable discussions of power, domination and violence. We offer a reading of the relations between affirmation and negativity through ‘minoritarian affects’ – a reading that arises in the midst of living through racial capitalism, coloniality, patriarchy, and heteronormativity and which builds an indeterminate future from the fragments of our lives and bodies.
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Life from the fragments
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 September 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 March 2021
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affect, affect theory, affirmation, ambivalence, critique, negativity, queer affec
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