Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 4023
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137275264
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137275257
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave, 2014) is a major, single-authored monograph of 243 pages, consisting of a preface, introduction, 5 core chapters and a conclusion. Written over a period of 5 years, it is part Palgrave’s ‘Thinking Gender in Transnational Times’ series edited by the LSE. Transnational and interdisciplinary in scope, it explores ‘the politics of empathy’ across various popular, scholarly and geopolitical sites and texts, including political memoires, business best-sellers; international development; popular science; and postcolonial fiction. It brings together scholarship from affect studies; cultural studies; sociology; politics; literary studies; neuroscience; psychoanalysis; and gender studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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