Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds, Freie Universität Berlin, Landoltweg 11, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2020 Dec;44(4):610-628. doi: 10.1007/s11013-020-09675-5.
In this article, we explore the power of shared embodiment for the constitution of an affective community. More specifically, we examine how people afflicted by long-term, arduous experiences of war, migration, and discrimination sensually articulate and, at least temporarily, renegotiate feelings of non/belonging, care, and in/exclusion. Methodologically, we draw on emplaced ethnography and systematic phenomenological go-alongs with a group of elderly migrants, born and raised in different parts of Vietnam, who had arrived in Germany within different legal-political frameworks and who, during the time of our psychological-anthropological research, frequented the same psychotherapeutic clinic. We apply the notion of "affective communities" (Zink in Affective Societies: Key Concepts. Routledge, New York, 2019) to grasp how the group experienced a sensual place of mutual belonging outside the clinic when moving through different public spaces in Berlin as part of their therapy. Particular attention is paid to the participants' embodied and emplaced memories that were reactivated during these excursions. Shared sensations and spatiality, we argue, made them feel they belonged to an ephemeral community of care that was otherwise hardly imaginable due to their distinct individual biographies, contrasting political attitudes, and ties to different social collectives. In analyzing this affective community, we highlight how significant spatio-sensorial modes of temporal solidification can be in eliciting embodied knowledge that positively contributes to therapeutic processes.
在本文中，我们探讨了共同体现对于情感共同体构成的力量。更具体地说，我们研究了那些长期遭受战争、移民和歧视的人们如何通过感官表达并至少暂时重新协商非归属感、关怀感和排斥感。在方法论上，我们借鉴了实地民族志和系统现象学的方法，与一群老年移民一起进行研究，他们出生和成长在越南的不同地区，他们在不同的法律政治框架下抵达德国，并且在我们进行心理人类学研究期间，他们经常光顾同一家心理治疗诊所。我们应用了“情感共同体”的概念（Zink 在《情感社会：关键概念》中提出），以理解当这些移民作为治疗的一部分在柏林的不同公共空间中穿行时，他们如何在诊所之外体验到一个相互归属的感官场所。特别关注参与者在这些旅行中重新激活的身体和场所记忆。我们认为，共同的感觉和空间使他们感到自己属于一个短暂的关怀共同体，否则由于他们独特的个人背景、对比鲜明的政治态度和与不同社会群体的联系，这个共同体几乎是难以想象的。在分析这个情感共同体时，我们强调了时空凝固的空间感官模式在引发有助于治疗过程的身体知识方面的重要性。
