We often hear that society is becoming more visual, that we are becoming dominated by 'the
image'. It is certainly true that technology has made it much easier for us to produce and …

Mobilities of money, symbols and young people themselves are central to the formation of
the contemporary youth period. While rural young people remain marginal to theoretical …

Agency is a conceptual problem for youth studies. While the term is used in many analyses
of young people's lives, this paper argues that the nature and conceptual meaning of agency …

This paper takes an affective approach to theorizing the production and circulation of
fitspiration media within a women's Instagram fitness community. In the context of fitness …

This article discusses the postfeminist framing of women who participate in CrossFit (CF)
and whether that framing provides a counter to traditional narratives regarding the …

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young
people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit …

In sociological and cultural studies the relationship we have with our clothes has been
mostly analyzed in terms of fashion and identity, with a focus on the ways in which we use …

Affect and emotions are integral to everyday social life, and they have, in recent years, been
the subject of increased sociological theorising. Despite significant mainstream advances in …

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe
towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies …

Mit dem Wandel von der industriellen zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft werden Gefühle zu
entscheidenden beruflichen Kompetenzen. Sie unterliegen der Vermarktlichung und …