Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0320-372X
Abstract
This essay introduces this issue’s Forum Kritika on Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects which gathers representative papers presented at the Critical Island Studies Colloquium held at the University of Macau in April 2024. It begins with a reflection on the concept of archipelagic affects by first moving affects and emotions beyond the confines of continental thought and then resituating them within an archipelagic frame attuned to colonial histories, diasporic routes, and Indigenous epistemologies, while emphasizing relationality over totality, opacity over mastery, and multiplicity over singularity. To honor that shift, this essay abandons the conventional introductory responsibilities of framing and synthesis in order to facilitate a relational orientation among the essays, thereby affording them the space to freely speak with, rather than against, one another. This methodological choice aims to enable the essays to constellate the aforementioned concerns across disparate sites—which drift from the imagined shores of children’s Robinsonades to modern reappropriations of Philippine folklore, from Japanese colonial island margins to Malaysian standup comedy stages, and even to Indigenous pageants in a landlocked “island”—as they simultaneously and singularly reimagine affects and emotions as movements across a world that is always already, according to Édouard Glissant, “spread into archipelagos.”
Recommended Citation
De Chavez, Jeremy
(2026)
"Introduction: Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
49, Article 20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2259
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss49/20
