This collection grapples with how affect, imagination, and embodiment can operate to either constrain or enable the justice of institutions and the experiences of specific social identities.

Danielle Celermajer is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on institutional and cultural reforms required for the prevention of human rights violations, responsibility for systematic injustice, and multispecies justice.

Millicent Churcher is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research draws together insights from affect and social imaginary studies as well as institutional theory to explore how concrete institutions may constructively engage the imaginations and affects of social agents to achieve social justice outcomes.

Moira Gatens is Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. She publishes in the areas of political and feminist philosophy, Spinoza studies, and Philosophy and Literature.

Introduction

Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens and Anna Hush

1. Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism

José Medina

2. South Africa's Blue Dress: (Re)imagining human rights through art

Eliza Garnsey

3. The 'Affairs' of Political Memory: Hermeneutical Dissidence from National Myth-Making

Mihaela Mihai

4. Character is a Sacred Bond: Reflections on Sovereignty, Grace, and Resistance

Richard K. Sherwin

5. The Tick-tick-ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human rights Institutions

Danielle Celermajer

6. Toward a Democratic Groove: Cultivating Affective Dynamics in Institutional Transformation

Romand Coles and Lia Haro

7. Listening to Claims of Structural Injustice

Emily Beausoleil

8. The Imaginary Institution of the University: Sexual Politics in the Neoliberal Academy

Anna Hush

9. Reframing Honor in Heterosexual Imaginaries

Millicent Churcher and Moira Gatens