In this article, we develop the concept of affective infrastructure as the entanglement of affects, meanings and materiality to analyse protest camps as a specific organisational form of social and political movement. Drawing on two ethnographic research projects investigating an asylum seekers’ protest camp in Helsinki, Finland, we argue that affects can be understood as having an infrastructural quality. The article contributes to research on affective politics by empirically studying the affective infrastructure of a protest camp. We distinguish between three interrelated dimensions of the affective infrastructure of a protest camp. First, affects are mobilised to mediate place-related meanings, the alteration of which is crucial to all protest camps. Second, affects are involved in creating the social space and atmosphere necessary to sustain a long-lasting protest. Third, affects impress themselves on abstract objects and ideas that must be managed as a part of the protest’s political message. Affects not only join subjects and objects together but also divide them, illustrating that an infrastructure becomes visible when it staggers or fails.

在本文中，我们提出了情感基础设施的概念作为情感、意义和物质性的纠缠，将抗议营地分析为社会和政治运动的一种特定组织形式。借鉴芬兰赫尔辛基寻求庇护者抗议营地的两个民族志研究项目，我们认为影响可以理解为具有基础设施质量。本文通过实证研究抗议阵营的情感基础设施，为情感政治研究做出了贡献。我们区分了抗议营地情感基础设施的三个相互关联的维度。首先，情感被调动来调解与地点相关的意义，其改变对所有抗议阵营都至关重要。其次，情感参与创造维持长期抗议所必需的社会空间和氛围。第三，影响给自己留下深刻印象的抽象对象和思想必须作为抗议政治信息的一部分加以管理。Affects 不仅将主体和客体连接在一起，而且将它们分开，说明基础设施在交错或失败时变得可见。