Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

'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. 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.'

- Ann Cvetkovich, Professor and Director, Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

'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). By framing their interventions as simultaneously specific to Latin America and inserted within the broader conversations regarding affect studies, they are ableto 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.'