Bodies out of place: affective encounters with whiteness

Shaddai Tembo

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100839

Bodies out of place: affective encounters with whiteness

Shaddai Tembo^*

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School of Education and Social Sciences

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Abstract

This essay foregrounds the role of affect in felt experiences of whiteness by illustrating two accounts, one that took place on 25th May 2020 between Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper in Central Park, and an encounter from the authors previous study on Black educators’ experiences of working in white spaces. In doing so, this essay is an affective attunement to the ways that felt intensities inform our experience of power relations and ultimately constrain the capacities of bodies to act.

Original language	English
Article number	100839
Number of pages	8
Journal	Emotion, Space and Society
Volume	41
Early online date	27 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100839
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2021

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whiteness
affect
affective encounters

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