{"product_id":"affinities-9780745664637","title":"Affinities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities  potent charges and charismatically lively connections in personal life, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant or toxify the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world through what she calls the ''socio-atmospherics of everyday life''. This book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range, and to engage in a more open, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAffinities\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of profound originality showing us what is to be gained from finding ways to become attuned to the effervescent, atmospheric aspects of social life. Beyond sociological clichés and comfortable academic conventions, this beautiful book is proof that sociology can be magical if we have the courage to believe in that possibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLes Back, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jennifer Mason has created a beguiling example of the contemporary sociological imagination at work. She shifts boundaries to incorporate fresh fields of vision, giving new depth to sociological enquiry. Unquestionably a delightful work of perceptive scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCarol Smart, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a guide for retraining social science's rationalistic or categorical version of reality into a more worldly realism of potencies, energies and sentience. It conjures a world in which affinities matter as a way of conceptualizing how to live.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKathleen Stewart, The University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Affinities as an Invitation to Think Differently 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Sensations of Living\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Sensations? 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFacets of Sensation 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Ashes, ghosts and the ‘sense of presence’ 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. ‘Grandma’s Hands’ by Bill Withers (version by Gil ScottHeron) 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The sensations of others: children’s perspectives 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooks 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoices, volume and imitation 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSize, height, weight, growing 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlay fighting and real fighting 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBodily proximity with others 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelational traces and bodily inscriptions 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The sensory-kinaesthetic intimacies of violence 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Becky Tipper’s creaturely ‘moments of being’ 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Meat, ‘food-animals’ and Rhoda Wilkie’s ‘sentient commodities’ 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLayering the Argument: Sensations of Affinity 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife is full of sensory-kinaesthetics 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensations are multiple and atmospheric, emanating in encounters 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensations as sensations: not representations, adjuncts or qualities 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA sensory-kinaesthetic attunement reveals characters 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAffinities are charged with the energies of fascination, wondering and discordance 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Ineffable Kinship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Ineffable Kinship? 59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFacets of Ineffable Kinship 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Family resemblances in literature and art 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Resemblance interactions 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA familiar conversation topic and form 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResemblances as striking, fleeting and capricious 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegotiating and ‘settling’ resemblances 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn uneasy combination of the potent and the trivial 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Resemblance stories 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The still-beating heart 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Nordqvist and Smart’s donors as ‘enigmatic presences’ 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Konrad’s ‘nameless relations’ and ‘transilience’ 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Super-donors and dubious progeniture 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. ‘The Seed’ by The Roots, featuring Cody Chesnutt 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLayering the Argument: Affinities of Ineffable Kinship 106\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphors of genetics and heritability 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetics and the ‘frisson’ of ineffability 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWondering about what is circulating and relating 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics? 123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFacets of Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics 126\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Animate places and things in literature 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNan Shepherd’s ‘living mountain’ 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJon McGregor’s city that ‘sings’ 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaruki Murakami’s ‘pulsing’ city 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarbara Kingsolver’s Africa as an ‘attendance in my soul’ 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Atmospheric memories of animate places and things 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe atmospherics of a teenager’s city 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnat Hecht’s ‘tangible memories’ of home 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKarin Widerberg’s atmospheric memories of ‘the homes of others’ 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Animate technologies, vehicles and journeys 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhone feelings 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe threaded worlds of train travel 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMimi Sheller’s ‘automotive emotions’ and ‘feeling the car’ 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLynne Pearce’s ‘autopia’ of driving and thinking 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Weathery weather in social science and literature 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Writing weather stories 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Socio-atmospherics and the time of the floods 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShock: the power and magnitude of water 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBearing witness and being in touch 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn atmosphere of ‘getting on with it’ 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegacies of the floods 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Weather poetics 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLayering the Argument: Ecologies and SocioAtmospherics 168\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcologies as convivialities, assemblages, happenings and animated space 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe feel of places, things, journeys and technologies 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnigmatic ecologies and the socio-atmospherics of living 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom what is connected to the dynamics of connection 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcological poetics 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: Affinities in Time 186\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree layers of the argument 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime: a final layering 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime and sensations 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime and ineffable kinship 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime, ecologies and socio-atmospherics 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccepting the invitation of affinities 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 000\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404413346135,"sku":"9780745664637","price":51.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745664637.jpg?v=1730486393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affinities-9780745664637","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}