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

这个博士项目将提供一个创新的重新概念化的中国的新冠肺炎大流行作为深刻的情感。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和Seigworth，2010; Thrift和Dewsbury，2000）。然而，尽管大多数研究都是在西方社会进行的（例如安德森，2016;克洛斯·斯蒂芬斯，2016），但人们对情感生活如何在其他社会形态中展开知之甚少，当代中国就是一个值得注意的例子（Palmer和Winiger，2019; Zhang，2018）。因此，该项目将通过提供另一种视角来了解零冠状病毒政策的影响力，从而有助于加深对中国的了解。该项目在理论上得到了现在流行的关于情感的研究的支持，情感被定义为身体与世界之间无所不在的关系和联系（Gregg和Seigworth，2010; Thrift和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旅行的基于情感的研究已经激增（例如Bissell，2010; Wilson，2011）。虽然这一系列的工作往往集中在相对有机的相遇所产生的气氛上，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（Alfrep等人，2017年）。相比之下，最近的奖学金一直对情感光谱的另一面感兴趣，即被动，惰性和麻醉的“冷漠”，这已经成为晚期资本主义社会的特有现象（Berlant，2015; Heyes，2020）。然而，关于影响的知识总是处于“特定的地理历史结合点”，因此在应用于其他经验背景时必须重新审视（安德森，2016年，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，本项目关注中国独特的条件和特点，并询问情感生活如何不同地产生和生活。

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.