Beyond apsychologistictrauma: a sense-based approach to the study of affect

Abstract

Taking trauma as an affect, this article discusses how body-matter assemblages can impact affect. Based on an ethnography of conflict-related loss and grieving from postwar Sri Lanka, it examines nuances of affective becomings, explicating a complex process that involves bodies, things, and spaces charged with intensities and in motion. The article also highlights the methodological challenges of studying such bodily processes. Based on that discussion, the article summons an approach to the study of trauma that re-engages with senses as a means of studying the nonverbal and nonconscious.

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