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Affective intimacies offers novel insight into how the study of affect can advance new perspectives on power relations by addressing existing inequalities and asymmetries. This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and how do they renew and enrich theories of intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms. Lively and thought-provoking, this collection contributes to timely topics across the social sciences, representing multiple disciplines from gender studies, sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and queer studies. By so doing, it advances the value of interdisciplinary perspectives and creative methodologies to understanding affective intimacies.

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Marjo Kolehmainen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland Annukka Lahiti is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland Kinneret Lahad is a Senior Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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