Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships

Tuula Juvonen is a Collegium Researcher at the University of Turku, FinlandMarjo Kolehmainen is a postdoctoral fellow at University of Tampere, Finland

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Marjo Kolehmainen and Tuula Juvonen: Introduction: Thinking with and Through Affective InequalitiesPart one: Affective capacities in embodied encounters Katie Anderson, Paula Reavey and Zoë Boden: An affective (re)balancing act? The liminal possibilities for heterosexual partners on MDMA Antti Malinen: Boundless Care: Religious Farm Women and Their Emotional Practices in Post-World War II Finland Annukka Lahti: Listening to Old Tapes: Affective Intensities and Gendered Power in Bisexual Women’s and Ex-Partners’ Relationship Assemblages Marjo Kolehmainen: Mapping Affective Capacities: Gender and Sexuality in Relationship and Sex Counselling PracticesPart two: Affective transitions throughout intimate lives Tuula Juvonen: Yet Another Lesbian Breakup? Understanding Intimate Relationship Dynamics Through Affective Resonance Liina Sointu: Slipping into ‘That Nurse’s Dress’: Caring as Affective Practice in Mixed-Sex Couples’ Relationships Nina Lykke: When Death Cuts Apart: On Affective Difference, Compassionate Companionship and Lesbian WidowhoodPart three: Affective negotiations between partners Raisa Jurva: Independence and Vulnerability: Affective Orientations in Imagining Futurities for Heterosexual Relationships Olga Sabido-Ramos and Adriana García-Andrade: In the Name of Love: A Relational Approach to Young People’s Relationships in Urban Mexico Polona Curk: Affective Dissonances: Resources to Disrupt Gender Binaries?Part four: Affective intimacies beyond couples Katja Chmilewski and Katharina Hajek: Mobilizing Affects About Intimate Relationships: Emotional Pedagogy Among the New Right in Germany Verónica Policarpo: The Power(s) of Friendship: Affects and Inequalities Between Friends Julia Katila: Touch Between Child and Mother as an Affective Practice: (Re)Producing Bodies in Haptic Negotiations of Intimate Space Bessie P. Dernikos: Reviving Ghostly Bodies: Student-Teacher Intimacies as Affective Hauntings