Once More with Feeling

This article introduces the special section “Feeling Revolutions, Feeling Politics.” We explore the various ways in which feelings emerge in political life and the work they do in both consolidating and resisting neoliberal and colonial power. We note that if the management of affective infrastructures is foundational to those structures of power, feelings are of equal importance to protest and insurgency. Focusing on the historical moment of decolonization, each article in the special section contributes to our understandings of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary feeling through the lenses of haunting and affect. Ultimately, they attune us to the importance of how and what we feel and how we might draw lessons from this for the future.