Affects and emotions are essential factors of the social and of coexistence in societies of the twenty-first century.
At the CRC Affective Societies – Dynamics of social coexistence in mobile worlds, our goal is to establish a new understanding of societies, in which the fundamental meaning of affectivity and emotionality is taken into account. For this we investigate mobile, interconnected, and mediatized worlds of the global present as well as transformation and crisis dynamics accompanying them.
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Working Paper 01/2025 published: „Infrastructures of Feeling: Digital Mediation, Captivation, Ambivalence“
Rebecca Coleman proposes a concept of infrastructures of feeling, building on Raymond Williams’ work on structures of feeling and contributing to current work on digital media/tion, affect and time.
Jan 13, 2025
Ernst-Reuter-Prize for Laibor Kalanga Moko
Our colleague Laibor Kalanga Moko was awarded with this year's Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation ‘Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums’ (Supervision: PD Dr Paola Ivanov, Prof. Dr Kai Kresse). We are very pleased and congratulate him!
Dec 12, 2024
Dissertation award for Laibor Kalanga Moko
Dr. Laibor Kalanga Moko, who has been a research associate at the CRC Affective Societies in our sub-project "Contested Property" since 2019, has been awarded this year's doctoral prize of the Berlin Scientific Society.
Jul 30, 2024
