Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation
(2022) Representation : journal of representative democracy — Vol. 2022, n° 2, p. 1-18 (2022)
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- Despite a political context marked by affective explicitness and an ongoing affective turn in social sciences, representation theory rarely takes affects and emotions into account. In this article, I respond to this gap by focusing on indignation, as a key affect of the crisis of representation. Building on recent constructivist theories of representation and affect theory, I unpack three affective dynamics of indignation which play a constitutive role in representation: affective imitation, affective transformation and the creation of affective publics. I conclude by raising normative questions on the role of indignation, and affect at large, in theories and practices of representation.
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Knops, L. (2022). Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation. Representation : journal of representative democracy, 2022(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2091011 (Original work published 2022)