Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social
justice are at stake-in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction …

Opening up modes of political thinking and feeling take us beyond Euro-American calls to
'put oneself in the other's shoes', this article explores how empathy is generated within …

Affective self-transformation premised on empathy has been understood within feminist and
anti-racist literatures as central to achieving social justice. Through juxtaposing debates …

The Politics of Empathy argues that empathy is a necessary condition for ethical subjectivity
and the emergence of a more compassionate world. One of the reasons empathy is …

The aim of our contribution is to clarify the nature of empathy and its role in sociality. Taking
issue with a recent proposal by Bubandt and Willerslev, we argue that their …

Empathy is an increasingly popular term in the public sphere and in academia. Although the
common belief is that empathy is a “psychological” topic, sociologists have made important …

Critical and cultural studies scholars have long debated the promise and perils of pressing
empathy, the sensation of shared feelings and experiences, into toppling systems of …

Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of
the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many …

While there is a growing interest in affect theory in Humanities disciplines, much of this work
is arguably still dominated by the Eurocentric assumption that cognition (or thought) is …

This chapter aims to show that the phenomenological tradition harbours an elaborate
conceptual framework for thematising empathy, one which remains relevant for …