Affective intimacies 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 they renew and enrich theories of
intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms.

This collection brings together a selection of original chapters which
invite readers to rethink such concepts as care, closeness and connectivity
through the notion of affective intimacies. Based on rigorous research, it
offers novel insights on a variety of themes from austerity culture to online
discussions on regretting motherhood, from anti-ableist notions of health to
teletherapies in the era of COVID-19, and from queer intimacies to critiques of
empathy.

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 for understanding affective intimacies.