Affectivity as a lens to racial formations in the nordic countries

In this anthology, we explore the relationship between race and affect. We look at the ways in which race is affectively experienced - in the processes of both being racialised and racialising others - how race and racial formations are produced and reproduced through affect and emotion, and how race and racialised bodies provoke, produce and influence certain affects in the surrounding world. The anthology offers analyses that draw on various theoretical perspectives and approaches to affect, and apply these approaches to various national locations and empirical settings and material. The aim of the anthology is to show, through the affective lens, new insights into the processes of racialisation and racial formation in contemporary Western countries.