par Richaud-Berthoumieu, Lisa 
Référence Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (6-10 septembre 2021: University of Birmingham)
Publication Non publié, 2021-09-10
Référence Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (6-10 septembre 2021: University of Birmingham)
Publication Non publié, 2021-09-10
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | This paper introduces the collaborative project, on the politics of negative affects in China’s post-Reform period, from which this panel emanates. China scholars have how state-led rapid transformations have brought about new manifestations of anxiety, depression, and other forms ofdistress, both among marginalized groups and members of the middle-classes. But while the Chinese state’s concern with managing negative affects and promoting positivity has been widely documented, less explored is what negative affects do as experiences and expressed. Can recent discussions in cultural studies of negativity as a ground for transformative agency can be put to work in the Chinese context? Can we locate new disruptive potentials through the sharing and circulation of negative affects? What are the mediations through which such affects may become recognized as shared experiences having roots in broader, structural processes? Drawing on this turn to affect, the project questions the possibility that the Chinese state has actually laid the ground for the formation of an affective “we” shaped through the circulation and sharing of negative feelings, sometimes tounpredictable effect. |
