Affect and Emotion

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

• Chapter 1: Introducing Affect: Lines of ArgumentChapter 2: Bodying Affect: Affective Flows and Their Psychobiological FiguringChapter 3: Negotiating Affect: Discourse, Representation and Affective Meaning-MakingChapter 4: Situating Affect: Interaction, Accountability and the Present MomentChapter 5: Solidifying Affect: Structures of Feeling, Habitus and Emotional CapitalChapter 6: Personalising Affect: Relational Histories, Subjectivities and the PsychosocialChapter 7: Circulating Affect: Waves of Feeling, Contagion and Affective Transmission

Absolutely essential reading for those wanting to understand the recent ′turn′ to affect. Offering an extensive analysis of all the perspectives available, including the psycho, neuro, bio and social, Margie Wetherell treads a magisterial path through the radically different offerings, one that illuminates key ideas and will save the uninitiated wandering down many pointless avenues. A path-setting book.