Books in the Transpekte: Transdisziplinaere Perspektiven der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften / Transpects: Transdisciplinary Perspectives of the Social Sciences and Humanities series

The book combines theoretical reframings of affect and emotion in global modernity with analyses of concrete instances of politics of passion from above or from below. By including debates and struggles in Western, Asian and African contexts, the volume attends to the actual plurality of affective rationalities and politics beyond a Eurocentric framework.

The author explores the history of plundering carried out by national and international companies in the region of Tumaco-San Lorenzo at the border between Colombia and Ecuador. She shows that the current oil palm agribusiness is just a new face of a process that began centuries ago and exposes its imperialist character.