Affect in Relation brings together perspectives from social science and cultural studies to analyze the formative, subject constituting potentials of affect and emotion. Relational affect is understood not as individual mental states, but as social-relational processes that are both formative and transformative of human subjects.

Birgitt Röttger-Rössler is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Jan Slaby is Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

1. Introduction: Affect in Relation - Jan Slaby & Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

PART I - Affective Families

2. Ageing Kin, Proximity and Distance: Translocal Relatedness as Affective Practice and Movement - MaruSka SvaSek
3. Education Sentimentale in Migrant Students' University Trajectories: Family, and other Significant Relations - Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
4. "Germans With Parents From Vietnam": The Affective Dimensions of Parent-Child relations in Vietnamese Berlin - Birgitt Röttger-Rössler & Anh Thu Anne Lam

PART II - Affect and Place

5. Spatialities of Belonging: Affective Place-Making among Diasporic Neo-Pentecostal and Sufi Groups in Berlin's Cityscape - Hansjörg Dilger, Omar Kasmani, & Dominik Mattes
6. "Midan Moments": Conceptualizing Space, Affect and Political Participation on Occupied Squares - Bilgin Ayata & Cilja Harders
7. Muslim Domesticities: Home Invasions and Affective Identification - Gilbert Caluya

PART III - Affect at Work

8. Immersion at Work: Affect and Power in Post-Fordist Work Cultures - Rainer Mühlhoff & Jan Slaby
9. Managing Community: Coworking, Hospitality and the Future of Work - Melissa Gregg & Thomas Lodato
10. Automation and Affect: A Study of Algorithmic Trading - Robert Seyfert

PART IV - Affect and Media

11. Affect and Mediation - Lisa Blackman
12. Intensive Bondage - Marie-Luise Angerer
13. Beyond Turkish-German Cinema: Affective Experience and Generic Relationality - Nazli Kilerci & Hauke Lehmann