Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Guilmette, Lauren
Abstract
This work seeks to explore the possibilities of applying affect theory to practices of social justice, specifically, through the affect theories based on energetics described by Teresa Brennan. The first section gives an overview on Brennan’s main arguments and how I interpret her through a Spinozistic lens. This project then explores the positive and negative roles that happiness, anger, grief, and humor have had in various social movements and how they have often been mis- or underused in these moments. The final section offers Brennan’s theory of “Living Attention” as a means of understanding our own affects and the affects of others and how to use them effectively and healthily.
Extent
66 p.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Erica J., "Rethinking Affect Through Social Justice: Teresa Brennan, Energetics, and Living Attention" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 2261.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/2261
Identifier
FA00013247
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.