Affect as Cultural Critique
University of Toronto Press, March 2026
epub: 9781487559816
pdf: 9781487559809
paperback: 9781487559793
“Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds – what if anthropology as a discipline could leverage affect to differently connect and cultivate collaboration with others?”
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Author details:
Daniel White is an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
Emma E. Cook is a professor of Modern Japanese Studies at Hokkaido University.
Andrea De Antoni is an associate professor in cultural anthropology at Kyoto University and research coordinator of the Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Kyoto.