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

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 …

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

Against the contemporary universalist injunction to 'be empathetic', this paper explores the
possibilities of what I call 'alternative empathies' in the aftermath of the Atlantic slave trade …

This article seeks to intervene in what I perceive to be a problematic opposition in feminist
theory between ontological and epistemological accounts of existence and politics, by …

In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American
women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of …

This Forum addresses a glaring paradox in International Relations (IR). That is, world
politics daily exercises emotions in practice; yet, the field of IR lacks any formal recognition …

Postcolonialism and feminism as critical discourses have enriched the understanding and
explanatory potential of international relations. One could argue that in the last two decades …

Whose personal is more political? This article explores the role of experience in
contemporary feminist politics, arguing that it operates as a form of capital within abstracted …

We live in a time of feelings. Anger, disgust, and anxiety abound in the public sphere and in
social analyses. Positive feelings are also increasingly demanded and exchanged in the …