Browsing No 7 (2016) by Issue Date
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What Can an Affect Do? Notes on the Spinozist-Deleuzean Account
(LIR. journal, 2016)The role of cognition and the thought-determining power of affects has been a subject of lively debate within current affect theory. In this article I focus on a recent critique put forth by Leys and Zerilli, according ... -
Sensual Grass Touching Humid Skin: Finding Love in the Relationship between Subject and Landscape
(LIR. journal, 2016)The starting point of this article is the notion of landscapes as intra-active places for dwelling and becoming. Informed by feminist and material ecocritical theory, it aims to make visible a connection between vegetation, ... -
Editorial - Introduction
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Contradiction and Radical Hope: Utopia as Method in the Lived Experience of Love
(LIR. journal, 2016)In this article, I explore the contradictions, tensions and hopefulness of love. Participants in my research shared accounts of love that acknowledged the anguish, loss and pain of love in uneven political worlds marked ... -
With a Little Help From My Friends. Gender and Intimacy in Two Friendship Research Projects
(LIR. journal, 2016)Friendship is an undertheorized but increasingly important relationship in late modernity. In this article, the authors present findings from two ongoing research projects about friendship, gender and age in contemporary ... -
A Special Place in the Heart. Human-Animal Affection in Lena Furberg’s Stallgänget på Tuva
(LIR. journal, 2016)This article examines emotions in girls’ relationships with horses as portrayed in Lena Furberg’s cartoon Stallgänget på Tuva (The Stable-Gang at Tuva). Published in the comic Min Häst (My Horse) between 1996 and 2008, ... -
Freedom or Love? Marriage, Single Life, and the Road to Happiness in Swedish 1920s Magazines
(LIR. journal, 2016)This article analyses discourses about self-supporting women in Swedish women’s magazines in the 1920s, after the attainment of legal equality in marriage and the acquisition of the right to vote. The self-supporting ... -
Killjoy and the Politics of Laughter. Russian Television Humour about Alyaksandr Lukashenka and its Reception in Belarusian Online Media
(LIR. journal, 2016)Drawing upon the perspective of the cultural studies of emotions, this article examines the reception of political satire and the re-contextualization of humour. More precisely, it investigates the multiplicity of ...