Affective World-Making

Simi Malhotra has a cumulative experience of more than twenty-two years of teaching and research guidance at PhD, MPhil, and postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her latest publications are the co-authored/co-edited books Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (2022), Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (2021), Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021), and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021). She is the recipient of several grants and awards, the latest being the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award.

This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship.

1) Architecture Affects: From Phenomenology to Planetarity 2) In-Between Performances: Worlding, Ethical Consciousness and Affective Responses to Contemporary Choreographies 3) Sound of Resistance: A Study of Climate and Culture through Rap Music 4) Travel, Medical Affect and the Romantic Planetarity 5) Performance Art and 'Affect': Negotiating 'Planetarity' in the context of Global Consumerism and Materiality 6) Feel-ing Poetry: Affective Aesthetics of Instapoetry 7) Child's Play and Survival: Examining Children's Games in the Squid Game 8) The YouTube Reaction Video as a site of Affective Fan Practices 9) 'No one understands the Savagery of this Place': Affect and Sense of a Place in Louise Glück'sA Village Life 10) Composing the [ ] Inhuman 11) Non-Human Visions: From Experimental Cinema to Hollywood 12) Submergence 'Within' and 'Without': Local and Planetary Memories in Arula Ratnakar's 'Submergence' 13) Erotic environmentalism: The Awegasmic Activism of Ecosexuality 14) To Stare or Not to Stare: An Affective Study of Disability through Select Hindi Films 15) Shame and its Lovers: Unstable Affective Transmissions in Garth Greenwell's Fiction 16) The Politics of Pain and Anger: Representing Sexual Trauma in Graphic Narratives