2 Responses to Carolyn Pedwell on Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy

1. Michael- says:

   November 19, 2013 at 4:38 pm

   Reblogged this on synthetic_zero.

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2. Matt H says:

   November 21, 2013 at 4:29 am

   I’d be interested to see how she sorts through all that theory mentioned. I recently read Didier Fassin’s “Humanitarian Reason…” which covers (what I assume is) a similar subject, but from the perspective of moral economies and (geopolitical) humanitarian sentimentality. I really can’t imagine how theories of affect would function in the realm of international politics and sentimental economies.

   It seems to me that affects are the ‘excess’ of encounters with empathy (empathy being the catalyst for the subjectification of the self and other). But, maybe I’m just reading too much into the title?

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