Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy
暫譯: 情感關係:跨國同理心的政治

Pedwell, C.

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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 engendering transnational social justice. Opening up new ways of thinking and feeling empathetic politics beyond universalist calls to 'put oneself in the others' shoes', it examines empathy's dynamic links to processes of location, translation, imagination and attunement. Affective Relations is interested in how empathy might be translated differently - how dominant liberal, neoliberal and neocolonial visions and practices of empathy can be reinterpreted in the context of transnationality to activate alternative affective connections, solidarities and potentialities.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《情感關係:跨國同理心的政治》探討了當代情感性要求「要有同理心」背後的權力動態及其複雜的社會和地緣政治影響。通過分析一系列流行和學術的網站及文本,包括歐巴馬的演講和回憶錄、暢銷商業書籍、國際發展文獻、流行科學著作、後殖民文學以及女性主義、反種族主義和酷兒理論,本書調查了將同理心視為促進跨國社會正義的情感工具的可能性、風險和矛盾。它開啟了思考和感受同理心政治的新方式,超越了普遍主義呼籲「將自己置於他人立場」的框架,檢視同理心與地點、翻譯、想像和調適過程之間的動態聯繫。《情感關係》關注同理心如何可能被不同地翻譯——主導的自由主義、新自由主義和新殖民主義的同理心視野和實踐如何在跨國性背景下被重新詮釋,以激活替代的情感聯結、團結和潛能。

作者簡介

Carolyn Pedwell is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is author of Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison and co-editor of 'Affecting Feminism: Questions of Feeling in Feminist Theory', a special issue of Feminist Theory.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

卡羅琳·佩德威爾(Carolyn Pedwell)是英國紐卡斯爾大學媒體與文化研究的高級講師。她是《女性主義、文化與具身實踐:比較的修辭》(Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison)的作者,並且是《影響女性主義:女性主義理論中的感受問題》(Affecting Feminism: Questions of Feeling in Feminist Theory)這本女性主義理論特刊的共同編輯。