Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect. It builds on the authors extensive work on the American West, where he developed the idea of expanded critical regionalism to underline the West as multiple, dynamic and relational; engaged in global / local processes, tensions between the rooted and the routed, and increasingly as relevant to debates around the politics of precarity and vulnerability. This book uses affective critical regionality to enable a re-valuing of the local as a powerful means to appreciate the everyday and the over-looked as vital elements within a more inclusive understanding of how we live. Exploring a variety of cultural materials including fiction, memoir, theory, poetry and film it demonstrates how this approach can deepen our understanding of, and simultaneously provoke new relations with, place. Moving beyond the US context through its use of international theoretical voices and texts, it will show how the concept is applicable to other cultural spheres.
See more
Current price
€46.79
Original price
€51.99
Save 10%
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
Weight: 349g
Dimensions: 153 x 224mm
Publication Date: 17 Aug 2016
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781783480838
About Neil Campbell
Neil Campbell is Professor of American Studies and Research Manager at the University of Derby U.K. He has published widely in American Studies including the books American Cultural Studies with Alasdair Kean (Routledge 2011) American Youth Cultures (ed Edinburgh University Press 2004) and co-editor of Issues on Americanisation and Culture (Edinburgh University Press 2004). His major research project is an interdisciplinary trilogy of books on the contemporary American West. The first two are The Cultures of the American New West (Edinburgh/Columbia UP 2000) and The Rhizomatic West (Nebraska 2008) and he has just completed the final part Post-Westerns on cinematic representation of the New West. He is with Christine Berberich & Robert Hudson co-editor of Land & Identity: Theory Memory and Practice (Rodopi 2012) and with Alfredo Cramerotti co-editor of Photocinema (Intellect 2013). Affective Landscapes also edited with Christine Berberich & Robert Hudson is forthcoming with Ashgate in 2014 as is the special section on affective landscapes in the Journal Cultural Politics.