This edited book demonstrates how love both unites and separates academic thinking across the arts and humanities, and beyond: from popular romance studies to border criminology, from sexology to peace studies, and into the fields of health, medicine, and engineering. This book is both a reflection and a call for a greater understanding of the complexity and importance of love in our lives, and in our world.
Author(s): Madalena Grobbelaar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Debra Dudek
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 142
City: Cham
About This Book—Or Our Love Story: Finding Love in the Arts and Humanities
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: The Love Ethic: Love and Activism for Ecosocial Justice
Introduction
Love and Activism
Love in Practice
The Love Ethic
Case Study: The Love Ethic as Hope
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: The Power of Love: Love in Peace and Conflict Studies
Introduction
Peace and Love Studies
The Power of Love
Yogic Peace Education
Love Transforms
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Love and Hospitality: Love, Refugees, and Challenging Indifference
Introduction
The Absence of Love in Contemporary Asylum Policy
The Role of Agape Love
Hospitality on a Spherical Earth
Cultivating Love through Hospitality
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction
Introduction
Why Migrate?
Love is Essential
Love > Migration
Migration Metaphors
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: The Heart of the Matter: Love and Care in Health Humanities
The Heart as the Seat of Love
Therapeutic Love-as-care: The Heart in Health Humanities
Love and Care in Shakespeare
Love and Care in Contemporary Heart Health
Caregivers and Therapeutic Love-as-care
Therapeutic Love as Self-care
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Queering Love: Love in Literary and Media Studies
Love’s Story/ies
Upcycling Love: Novel Transformations
Amour fou: The Drive of Love Till Death in Film
Romance Rebooted: Teen Love on TV
Never-ending Story/ies?
References
Chapter 7: Embracing Intimate Civility: Love of Kith and Kin
Introducing Intimate Civility
Separations of Civility
Separations of Friendship
Defining Intimate Civility
Current Research on Intimate Civility
Intimate Civility: Attachment and Construction
How to Embrace Intimate Civility
Think Dialectically
Imagine Friendship
Grow by Looking
Divining Humanism: The Look of Love
References
Chapter 8: The Tyranny of Love: Love and Psychology
Introduction
Love as Suffering
Tragic Love
Loving Humans
Modern Love: Overburdened Presumptions
A Reconsideration of Love
References
Chapter 9: Consensuality: Love and Sex Post #Metoo
Some Notes on Positionality and Theorising
Consensuality and Somatic Inquiry: Theorising a Psychology of Consent
States of Play, Imagination, and Creativity
Moral Injury and Repair: A Case for Imaginative Ethics and Ethical Imagination
The Art of the Interaction: Aesthetics, Fiction, Representation, and The Imaginary
Ending Here?
References
Chapter 10: Love of Process: Intimacy and Attention Within Painting, Life, and Art
Introduction
Part One: Phenomenology as Process in Love and Art
Walking Blind
Painting and the Material Imagination
Part Two: Dyadic Relations—A Correspondence Between Love and Paint
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Conclusion: The Fire of Love
The Fire Within
The Dawning of New Era: A Time for Love
Love to Reclaim Joy
Ubuntu: I am Because We Are
References
Index
