Understanding affect in (post)Covid China: insights from lived experiences

了解新冠疫情后中国的影响：来自生活经历的见解

• 批准号: 2879409
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879409
• 关键词: Understanding; affect; post; Covid; China

This doctoral project will provide an innovative reconceptualization of China's covid pandemic as deeply affective. The 'affective turn' in human geography has opened up fruitful discussions on the interconnections between bodies and the world (Gregg and Seigworth, 2010; Thrift and Dewsbury, 2000). Yet, while most studies are situated in Western societies (e.g. Anderson, 2016; Closs Stephens, 2016), little is known about how affective life unfolds in other social formations, with contemporary China being a notable example (Palmer and Winiger, 2019; Zhang, 2018). The project will therefore contribute to deepened understanding of China by offering an alternative perspective on the affective life of zero-Covid policy. The project is theoretically underpinned by the now prevalent research on affect which is defined as the omnipresent relations and connections between bodies and the world (Gregg and Seigworth, 2010; Thrift and Dewsbury, 2000). There has been a proliferation of affect-based studies on how transverse 'affective atmospheres' take shape in everyday space and travel between porous bodies through sensory engagements (e.g. Bissell, 2010; Wilson, 2011). Whilst this strand of work has tended to focus on atmospheres resulting from relatively organic encounters, others have argued that collective affects can also be purposefully designed and governed to facilitate political and socio-economic agenda (Jupp et al., 2017). By contrast, recent scholarships have been interested in the other side of the affective spectrum, namely the passive, inert, and anaesthetic 'unfeelings' that have become endemic to late capitalist societies (Berlant, 2015; Heyes, 2020). However, knowledge of affects is always situated in 'particular geo-historical conjunctures' and therefore must be re-scrutinised when applying to other empirical contexts (Anderson, 2016, p. 749). Indeed, to date affect theory has been predominantly applied in neoliberal capitalist societies in the global North (Fregonese, 2017; Pettit, 2018 being notable exceptions), raising questions as to whether and how its theoretical strength can be leveraged elsewhere. Therefore, this project attends to the unique conditions and characteristics of China and asks how affective life is differently produced and lived.

这个博士项目将提供一个创新的重新概念，即中国的covid大流行具有深刻的影响。人文地理学中的“情感转向”开启了关于身体与世界之间相互联系的富有成效的讨论（Gregg and Seigworth, 2010; Thrift and Dewsbury, 2000）。然而，尽管大多数研究都是在西方社会进行的（例如Anderson, 2016; Closs Stephens, 2016），但对其他社会形态中情感生活的发展知之甚少，当代中国就是一个显著的例子（Palmer and Winiger, 2019; Zhang, 2018）。因此，该项目将为零冠疫情政策的有效生命提供另一种视角，从而有助于加深对中国的了解。该项目在理论上得到了目前流行的情感研究的支持，情感被定义为身体与世界之间无所不在的关系和联系（Gregg and Seigworth, 2010; Thrift and Dewsbury, 2000）。关于横向“情感氛围”如何在日常空间中形成并通过感官参与在多孔体之间传播的基于情感的研究已经大量出现（例如Bissell, 2010; Wilson, 2011）。虽然这一系列工作倾向于关注相对有机接触产生的氛围，但其他人认为，集体影响也可以有目的地设计和管理，以促进政治和社会经济议程（Jupp等人，2017）。相比之下，最近的奖学金关注的是情感光谱的另一面，即晚期资本主义社会特有的被动、惰性和麻木的“无感情”（Berlant, 2015; Heyes, 2020）。然而，关于情感的知识总是处于“特定的地理历史时刻”，因此在应用于其他经验背景时必须重新审视（Anderson, 2016，第749页）。事实上，迄今为止，影响理论主要应用于全球北方的新自由主义资本主义社会（Fregonese, 2017; Pettit， 2018是值得注意的例外），这引发了关于其理论力量是否以及如何在其他地方发挥作用的问题。因此，这个项目关注中国独特的条件和特点，并探讨情感生活是如何以不同的方式产生和生活的。