How do emotions move and how do emotions move us? How are feelings and recognitions distributed socio-materially? Based on a multi- site ethnographic study of a 'romantic' correspondance system, this article explores the themes of love, privacy, identity and public displays. Informed by...

This article welcomes the recent renewed interest in the topic of class within sociology and cultural studies. This comes after a long period – from around the middle part of the 1980s and into the 1990s – during which social class was dismissed as a mode of understanding...

The aim of this article is to analyze friendship ties and the emotions connected to them in some particular phases of life: periods when subjects are faced with difficult challenges such as mourning, separation, job loss or illness. Under these circumstances, friendship ties and emotions take on...