《The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia》

《The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia》 内容介绍：

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide an analytical tool for a nuanced and enriched analysis of social, political, and economic transformations in East Asia. Crucially, this book addresses four key issues, namely the relationship between affect and power; the relationship between affect and ideology; the relation of the body to subjectivity; and the link between affective labour and biopolitical economy. The contributors pay particular attention to the way that potentiality and imagination become animated by affect (i.e., happiness, anger), resulting in new modes of governance and creating new sites for value extraction among particular groups (such as unemployed workers in China, Southeast Asian care workers in Japan and South Korea, etc.) Conversely, resistive affects (i.e., anger, tears, unhappiness) are deployed by those marginal groups to counter reigning hegemonies, and the chapters highlight these strategies and the complexity and unevenness of the political technology of affect. The interdisciplinary nature of this book means it will have a broad appeal across a number of fields of study, including anthropology, sociology, media studies, communications, history, cultural studies, Asian studies, and gender and women’s studies.

作者Jie Yang ed.介绍：

Jie Yang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Canada

《The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia》 目录大纲：

Foreword, Sara Ahmed Introduction, Jie Yang Part I: Happiness and Psychologization 1. Happiness for the Chinese Heart: Manufacturing "Confucian Remedies" for Happiness in Contemporary China, Yanhua Zhang 2. The Happiness of Normality: Counseling and Self-Reflexivity in China, Jie Yang Part II: Affect, Body, and Subjectivity 3. Banking in Affects: The Child, a Landscape, and the Performance of a Canonical View, Teresa Kuan 4. Fashion and the Re-mapping of Gender and Affects in Contemporary China, Xin Huang Part III: Tears, Media, and Affective Articulation 5. Tears, Capital, Ethics: Television and the Public Sphere in Japan, Daniel White 6. Crying Your Heart Out: The Televisual Construction of "Female Laid-Off Workers" and Melodramatic Salvation in the Age of Market Economy, Shuyu Kong Part IV. Gender, Affective Labor, and Biopolitical Economy 7. "Affective Foreigners Save our Elder Citizens": Media Discourse of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan", Ayaka Yoshimizu 8. Fulfilling the Self and Transnational Intimacy through Emotional Labor: The Experiences of Migrant Filipino Domestic Workers in South Korea, Toshiko Tsujimoto Part V: Affect, Modernity, and Empires 9. Affective Attachments to Japanese Women’s Language: Language, Gender, and Emotion in Colonialism, Momoko Nakamura 10. Haan and the Affective Dimension of Modernity in South Korea, Sung Kil Min 11. The Weeping Communist: Managing Affectivity in North Korea, Craig MacKie