Trends in the Turn to Affect: A Social Psychological Critique

Body and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-166

  Wetherell, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

affect; affective contagion; affective practice; cultural politics of emotion; embodied social practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930513986     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X14539020     Document Type: Article

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