This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of aff

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides, both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adapta

As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black liv