This book gathers contributions from an emergent field of thinking and knowledge production in Latin America that emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality. Pierce, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, USA By framing their interventions as simultaneously specific to Latin America and inserted within the broader conversations regarding affect studies, they are able to balance the urgent need to theorize contemporary political and cultural interventions, and at the same time resist the tendency to “import” theory from the North.’ – Joseph M. ‘The fact that this book is being proposed in English, rather than Spanish and/or Portuguese, indicates that the editors and contributors are interested in changing the dynamics of field formation and knowledge brokering which tend to privilege the Global North (and English). Ann Cvetkovich, Professor and Director, Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada The essays in this timely and moving collection create innovative directions for studies of affect, emotion, and feeling that will be of value to scholars in both Northern and Southern hemispheres.’ ‘Viewing the affective turn from the vantage point of Latin America opens up new perspectives on affect theory’s origins in gender and sexuality studies and its political relevance.
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