Mateusz Laszczkowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, where he teaches political anthropology, with a focus on place, space, material infrastructures, and affect. He is the author of 'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana (Berghahn Books, 2016). Madeleine Reeves is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Manchester and editor of Central Asian Survey. Her interests lie in the anthropology of politics and place, with a particular focus on Russia and Central Asia. Her monograph Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2014) won the 2015 Joseph Rothschild Prize and the 2016 Alec Nove Prize.

"A brilliant contribution that brings political anthropology into ethnographic and conceptual conversation with affect theory. Each of the book chapters provides a unique ethnographic angle on 'affective states, ' with a fantastic, field-defining introduction." - Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge"A pioneering volume on contemporary political life that offers an exciting new approach to theorizing the state through the lens of affect, one that focuses our attention on the powerful structures of sentiment that mediate relations between citizens and government. A must read for those who want to understand the affective intensities of politics in these very uncertain times." - Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside

• Introduction: Affective States: Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves Chapter 1. Negotiating Uncertainty: Neo-liberal Statecraft in Contemporary Peru Annabel Pinker and Penny Harvey Chapter 2. The Fines and the Spies: Fears of State Surveillance in Eritrea and in the Diaspora David Bozzini Chapter 3. "Recognize the Spies": Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace Sarah Kendzior Chapter 4. Moral Subjectivity and Affective Deficit in the Transitional State: On Claiming Land in South Africa Christiaan Beyers Chapter 5. 'Father Mao' and the Country-Family: Mixed Feelings for Fathers, Officials, and Leaders in China Hans Steinmuller Chapter 6. The Turn of the Offended: Clientelism in the Wake of El Salvador's 2009 Elections Ainhoa Montoya Chapter 7. Living from the Nerves: Deportability, Indeterminacy, and the 'Feel of Law' in Migrant Moscow Madeleine Reeves