Affects and emotions are essential factors of the social and of coexistence in societies of the twenty-first century.
At the CRC Affective Societies – Dynamics of social coexistence in mobile worlds, our goal is to establish a new understanding of societies, in which the fundamental meaning of affectivity and emotionality is taken into account. For this we investigate mobile, interconnected, and mediatized worlds of the global present as well as transformation and crisis dynamics accompanying them.
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New Publication: “Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin
What does it mean to feel at home in a place that may soon no longer exist? How do looming urban transformations imprint themselves on our emotional experience, our memories, and our sense of self? And can the feeling of home ever be separated from the material and affective histories of dwelling?
Jul 15, 2025
New publication: "Affective Dynamics in #MyBodyMyChoice Memetic Performances on TikTok: Between Feminist Killjoys and Happy Feminism"
A new article by Margreth Lünenborg and Annabella Backes has been published as part of the special issue “Public Emotions and the Affective Forces of Social Activism” of the journal Javnost – The Public . The authors explore the affective dynamics of feminist digital activism by drawing ...
Jul 09, 2025
Affect meets film: Arabesque in Turkish-German cinema
Kilerci-Stevanović, N (2025). Poetics of Arabesk in Turkish-German Cinema. A Transnational Intervention in the Discourse. De Gruyter
Jun 25, 2025
