Routledge Studies in Ajfective Societies presents high-level academic work on the social dimensions ofhuman affectivity. lt aims to shape, consolidate, and promote a new understanding of societies as Affective Societies, accounting for the fundamental importance of affect and emotion for human coexistence in the mobile and networked worlds of the 21st century. Contributions come from a wide range of academic fields, including anthropology; sociology; cultural, media, and film studies; political science; performance studies; art history; philosophy; and social, developmental, and cultural psychology. Contributing authors share the vision of a transdisciplinary understanding of the affective dynamics of human sociality. Thus, Routledge Studies in Ajfective Societies devotes considerable space to the development ofmethodology, research methods, and techniques that are capable ofunit-ing perspectives and practices from different fields.