This article advances a synthetic framework for examining the relationship between affect and power. Combining critical discursive psychology with analyses of stance and emotion thematization, the framework enables a dialogic analysis of the macro and micro levels on which affect weaves into social life. The approach is applied in an analysis of women’s talk about their hair, which they construct as ‘black’ or ‘African’. Guided by the notion of ‘affective-discursive practice’, the article investigates the relationship between affect and meaning-making revealed in talk, as well as relations of power that arise from it. In the analysis, individuals are found to articulate their affective experiences in unlike ways and to hence position themselves differently in relation to the hegemonic discourses of beauty and race. The article discusses how the dialogic research on affect and discourse enriches our understanding of the role of feelings in the micropolitics of everyday life.

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批判性情感研究：论在情感、身体和权力研究中应用话语分析

本文提出了一个综合框架来检验情感和权力之间的关系。该框架将批判性话语心理学与立场和情感主题化分析相结合，能够对影响社会生活的宏观和微观层面进行对话分析。该方法用于分析女性谈论她们的头发，她们将头发定义为“黑色”或“非洲”。以“情感-话语实践”的概念为指导，本文研究了谈话中所揭示的情感与意义制造之间的关系，以及由此产生的权力关系。在分析中，发现个人以不同的方式表达他们的情感体验，因此在与美和种族的霸权话语相关的情况下定位自己不同。