Introduction: Affective Intimacies

Kolehmainen, Marjo; Lahad, Kinneret; Lahti, Annukka

doi:10.1080/08038740.2021.1948724

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“…Yamit’s quote illuminates how “attacking” spaces enable her to experience a vital connection with her body. Yamit further describes the affective elements at the party as “energies” that open up possibilities to dance freely and to feel “attractive and sexy.” These “energies” reflect on how the trans-subjective affective relations in these spaces produce a dynamic atmosphere that allows greater flexibility in relation to social boundaries (Kolehmainen & Mäkinen, 2021).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relational concept of affect meets the empirical challenge of identifying power relations, affective inequalities, and their interpretation and judgment in the context of intimate relationships. The focus on interdependencies and relationality disrupts the neoliberal focus on individuality and choice and enables other ways of knowing, which challenge both individualistic characteristics of subjectivity and a deterministic conception of social forces (Hemmings 2005, 2012; Kolehmainen et al, 2021). Therefore, focusing on bodies’ affective responses allows an alternative understanding of sexual expression beyond the dichotomies represented by sexual scripts and identity categories (Paasonen, 2018).…”

Section: Affect Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”

Herz

Rozmarin

2023

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Although young women’s sexual body is often objectified by cultural practices, analysis of their affective responses highlights various possibilities of sexual subjectification. This paper uses the case study of “attacking”—a common Israeli heterosexual practice—to address the emergence of young women’s sexual subjectivity, using affect theory to reveal the gap between affective responses, self-perceptions, and the perceived normativity of the practice. We address vulnerability as an affective pattern of the encounter of bodies with power formations, which also enables transformation. Drawing on interviews with 39 young Israeli women, we demonstrate how “attacking” evokes affective dissonance that illuminates their need to negotiate social meanings and self-perceptions, revealing new forms of collectivity and action that enable sexual expression even when facing vulnerability. This approach challenges the objectification–subjectification dichotomy and expands theorization beyond the focus on autonomy and control of sexual pleasure.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Affect Theorymentioning

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Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”

Herz

Rozmarin

2023

YOUNG

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“…Bell concluded, ‘And it was a very interesting experience because I really had to feel everybody’s ass.’ Bell’s act of feeling here has an affective charge on the infrastructure of intimacy itself: it produces alternative modes of relating, enacting non-normative sexualities onto the privatised home. This rebuilding of infrastructures of intimacy works through the touch itself, the material distribution of intimate affect, ‘further highlight[ing] the political potential of affect in studying intimacies’ (Kolehmainen et al, 2022, p. 2).…”

Section: Elevating Narcofeminist Matters Of Care In Queer Chemsexmentioning

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Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency

Azbel

2023

The Sociological Review

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The potential of sexualised drug use to enact the queer body is largely unaccounted for within the expert public health knowledges where ‘chemsex’ is produced as a predominantly cisgender gay male practice harmful to health. Underpinned by such logics, COVID-19 prevention measures in 2020–2021 limited urban nightlife, which can be thought of as a queer ‘intimate infrastructure’, restricting chemsex to the home. Such changes in routine afforded by public health emergencies provide a particularly clear glimpse into the emergent and situated production of queer bodies. Drawing on ontopolitical research in drug studies, which treats bodily capacities as products of sociomaterial arrangements, I explore the generative effects that emerge from a shifting landscape of sex and drug practices. I draw on in-depth qualitative interviews with members of queer feminist collectives in Berlin, Germany at the time of the lockdowns to ask: what kind of community is enacted through an abrupt transformation in the material settings of sexualised drug use? I argue that the landscape of the home was co-constitutive of a queer narcofeminist collective body, providing an incisive rebuke not only of public health discourse on chemsex, but also of the bifurcation of ‘intimate infrastructure’ into the privatised heteronormative home versus the public gay dark room.

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“…The methodological framework for this article relies on an understanding of affective feminist intimacies (Kolehmainen et al, 2021) as emerging through networks of human and nonhuman entities. Combined with actor-network theory, Sara Ahmed's scholarship provides a fitting framework in this regard.…”

Section: Tracing Feminist Entanglementsmentioning

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Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’

Barbala

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This article investigates how affective hashtags on Instagram can contribute to forming intimate feminist entanglements transcending the digital sphere, resulting in offline demonstrations and rallies. In tracing the use of three Swedish hashtags emerging in the wake of #metoo, all surrounding women’s experiences with sexual harassment and violence, it is argued that affective hashtags can be a central component for explaining how social media-based campaigns can surpass online spaces and transition into more traditional forms of non-mediated feminist activity. Drawing from a 3-year immersion in feminist communities on Instagram, the article shows how hashtags here are reconceptualized into ‘affect triggers’, intimately entangling human and nonhuman entities along the way. It is suggested that a combination of feminist affect theory and insights from science and technology studies (STS) may offer a fruitful methodology for providing insights into the political potential of affect in forming augmented feminist realities.

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Introduction: Affective Intimacies

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”

Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”

Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency

Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’

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