Disaffected

Mobilizing pride/shame: lesbians, tourism and parades

“…In this paper I show that pride and shame are coconstructions and have spatial and embodied affects (Barber and Clark 2002, Crimp 2002, Sedgwick 2003. I will argue that the public performance of Pride Scotland may bring about the shame affect (as theorized by Eve Sedgwick 2003 andSilvan Tomkins 1995;see also Ash 2005;Gibbs 2002;Probyn 2004). Shame may arise from a desire to 'fit in', and at the same time, a feeling of being 'out of place'.…”

For Love of the Word: English Teaching, Affect and Writing

“…The pedagogical encounter as Eros, where love of teacher and love of subject slide together, has been explored by Erica McWilliam (1996) who says that the 'elating and elated teaching body is often the sight/site out of which future scholars are propelled into an on-going love affair with their disciplines … the body of the teacher … performs what it looks like to have a love affair with a body of knowledge' (p. 374). The effect of this on the student body can be analogous to what Anna Gibbs (2002) calls, after Tomkins, 'affect contagion' (p. 337). Later in this paper, we'll return to the teaching body infused by, and provocative of, love.…”

Mapping Affect Studies

“…This preoccupation with writing style as method in affect studies is not exclusively that of non-representational folks, authors like Anna Gibbs (2002) Patricia Clough (2009) Karen Barad (2014) and myself (2017, 2018) have suggested that the use of experimental writing and even poetry hold great promises to increase and direct the capacity for speculation about the infra-empirical realm. To put it in different words, what you cannot see and analyze is left for imagination to play with.…”