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Concepts as Methodology. A Plea for Arrangement Thinking in the Study of Affect

Analyzing Affective Societies (Cover)

Analyzing Affective Societies (Cover)

Slaby, Jan; Mühlhoff, Rainer; Wüschner, Philipp – 2019

By way of an exemplary elucidation, we sketch a proposal on how the development and refinement of concepts can serve as a cross-disciplinary methodology in the study of affect and emotion. We focus on the working concept of an affective arrangement, which we characterize both historically and systematically and also with help of examples from recent affect research. We outline the concomitant thought style of arrangement thinking: a specific methodological orientation for qualitative work on relational affect. Thereby, we provide concrete materials for a view on the nature of conceptual practice in qualitative inquiry with broad application across the humanities, cultural studies and the social sciences.

Title
Concepts as Methodology
Author
Slaby, Jan; Mühlhoff, Rainer; Wüschner, Philipp
Date
2019
Identifier
DOI: 10.4324/9780429424366-2
Appeared in
Kahl (Ed.) 2019 – Analyzing Affective Societies
Language
eng
Type
Text
Size or Duration
pp. 27–42