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From the Scottish Independence Referendum and Brexit to Covid, immigration-, austerity- and climate-policies, emotions have proven to be key-components in affecting social and cultural politics.

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Carolyn Pedwell is Professor in Digital Media in the Sociology Department at Lancaster and the author of three monographs: Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation McGill-Queens UP, ; Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy Palgrave, ; and Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison Routledge, She is also the co-editor with Gregory J.

Seigworth of The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures Duke UP, Ann Cvetkovich is currently Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism Rutgers, ; An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures Duke, ; and Depression: A Public Feeling Duke, She has been coeditor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

She currently has two books in progress: Feeling My Way Through the Archives: A Journey in Queer Method and How To Live in A Body: A Survival Guide for Troubled Times. Taste is a crucial site where both the emotions of politics and the politics of emotions are negotiated, distributed and enforced.

From one angle at least, social struggle is struggle through, in, and about taste. When it comes to fashion, emotions thus serve as a powerful lens through which the symbolic significance of material objects and cultural practices can be observed. Burberry, with its quintessentially British heritage, is a striking case in point, as it used to embody a particular vision of upper-class English identity associated with tradition and refinement.

However, the paper argues that the appropriation of Burberry by chav culture is not merely a superficial act of consumerism, but rather a deeply emotional and affective response to social exclusion and marginalization. It reflects a desire for visibility, belonging, and the assertion of agency within a society that often renders certain identities invisible or demonized.

Re- Appropriations of Burberry thus challenge dominant narratives of Englishness: in asserting alternative forms of belonging and cultural expression, they proof to be powerful technologies of emotions that simultaneously create and divide communities. This becomes manifest in cultural forms, artefacts and representations that re-evaluate — and sometimes simply co-opt —taste distinctions.

Bio Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at Goethe Uni Frankfurt and is currently visiting professor at the University of Erlangen. Her research focuses on Affect Theory, Contemporary Literature and Material Culture. Her second book project is tentatively entitled Cluttered Epistemology: Hoarding in Contemporary Literature and Culture.

This paper argues that the performance of communal affect through acts of service aims at reinforcing the communal underpinnings of British democracy by fostering a sense of shared responsibility and belonging. Amid economic turmoil marked by numerous city councils declaring bankruptcy, the push for increased social solidarity based on voluntary work, which entails privatising and moralising public services, resonates with neoliberal ideals.

It cultivates a sense of personal and collective identity, ultimately reframing perceptions of diminished social services and infrastructures while providing a disguised rationale for austerity policies. Affectively potent yet politically vague, this spiritually charged goal may serve as justification and consolation for the harsh and seemingly isolating realities of British life after Brexit, in a country facing recession.

Bio Julia Boll holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a habilitation from the University of Konstanz. She is currently Adjunct Professor Privatdozentin of British Studies at the University of Konstanz. Before, she was Interim Professor for British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

She has spoken and written on representations of war, violence, grief and pornography; ethics in literature on science; neoliberalism; theatre, transnationalism and utopia; the performativity of knowledge; the relationship between Early English cultures and nostalgic nationalism; the performativity of the commons; and the diachronic representation of bare life on stage.

The title of the tri-partite television documentary refers to what the British public knows as the Brixton Riots. Replacing the pejorative term with one that insinuates resistance against those in power the narrative presents the Brixton Uprising in April as a reaction to the New Cross house fire in January of the same year.

The three one-hour films suggest that the protest was a reaction to the hostilities of the National Front and to aggressive racist policing.