Navigating the Intimate Unknown: Vulnerability as an Affective Relation

Rozmarin, Miri

doi:10.1080/08038740.2021.1899284

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“…The support that young women receive from their female friends enables them to establish a subjective position that allows transformation in their relatedness to social structures. By relating to young women’s vulnerability as both an affective pattern and an affective becoming that enables creativity and collectivity (Rozmarin, 2021), our analysis expands the conceptualization of sexual subjectivity beyond the neoliberal focus on individuality, autonomy, and control of sexual pleasure and sexual relations (Bay-Cheng, 2019; Lamb, 2012; Schalet, 2010).…”

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“…In turn, these asymmetrical relations evoke certain vulnerabilities (Zengin, 2016). Rozmarin (2021) offers an account of vulnerability as an affective pattern of the encounter of bodies with power formations, which also enables creativity and transformation. Vulnerability as an affective relation depends on sociocultural formation, but at the same time enables subjective transformation.…”

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

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Rozmarin

2023

YOUNG

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

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Rozmarin

2023

YOUNG

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“…Being in the world imply being and becoming vulnerable (Vosman et al. , 2016; Rozmarin, 2021) and the pathic dimension is widely considered in organizational aesthetics (Strati, 2019).…”

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“…It is about intensities: the light that causes our eye to flinch (Katila et al, 2023), the sound that makes us start (Henriques, 2010), the image of violence which raises our body temperature (Page, 2017). Being in the world imply being and becoming vulnerable (Vosman et al, 2016;Rozmarin, 2021) and the pathic dimension is widely considered in organizational aesthetics (Strati, 2019).…”

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The fluid affective space of organizational practices

Gherardi

2023

QROM

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PurposeThe article contributes to affective ethnography focussing on the fluidity of organizational spacing. Through the concept of affective space, it highlights those elements that are ephemeral and elusive – like affect, aesthetics, atmosphere, intensity, moods – and proposes to explore affect as spatialized and space as affective.Design/methodology/approachFluidity is proposed as a conceptual lens that sits at the conjunction of space and affect, highlighting both the movement in time and space, and the mutable relationships that the capacity of affecting and being affected weaves. It experiments with “writing differently” in affective ethnography, thus performing the space of representation of affective space.FindingsThe article enriches the alternative to a conceptualization of organizations as stable entities, considering organizing in its spatial fluidity and in being a fragmented, affective and dispersed phenomenon.Originality/valueThe article's writing is an example of intertextuality constructed through five praxiographic stories that illustrate the multiple fluidity of affective spacing in terms of temporal fluidity, fluidity of boundaries, of participation, of the object of practice, and atmospheric fluidity.

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“…From this perspective, vulnerability becomes the condition of life (Chouliaraki, 2020;Koivunen et al, 2018). Affect theory provides a productive framework for the conceptualisation of vulnerability as an affective relation which entails both the entanglements with political conditions that hinder one's life, and the affective becoming of bodies that allow transformation and movement beyond a fixed and stable subject position (Rozmarin, 2021). This also has consequences for our understanding of the political: these vary from resisting such notions of intimacy where it is seen as opposed to the political (Kolehmainen and Juvonen, 2018) to the limiting of politics to humans only (Bennett, 2010;Tsing, 2015).…”

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Navigating the Intimate Unknown: Vulnerability as an Affective Relation

Cited by 14 publications

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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”

The fluid affective space of organizational practices

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