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"Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy explores the power dynamics underlying the contemporary affective injunction to 'be empathetic', and their complex social and geopolitical implications. Through analysis of a range of popular and scholarly sites and texts - including Obama's speeches and memoirs, best-selling business books, international development literatures, popular science tracts, postcolonial literature and feminist, anti-racist and queer theory - this book investigates the possibilities, risks and contradictions of figuring empathy as an affective tool for…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2014Palgrave Macmillan · 260 pages · 9781349446100
- Hardcover · English · 2014Palgrave Macmillan · 273 pages · 9781137275257
- Other · English · 2014Palgrave Macmillan Limited · 9781137275264
EmpathyEmotionsSocial psychologyInterpersonal relationsPSYCHOLOGY / EmotionsSocial JusticeCultural studiesPSYCHOLOGY