20.500.12556/DKUM-98881 Movement, crisis, and (be)longing affect and migrant identity in Agnieszka Dale’s short stories Movement, crisis, and belonging This article examines how migrant belonging is regulated affectively before it becomes a matter of legal exclusion in Agnieszka Dale’s short stories Fox Season, A Happy Nation, and What We Should Feel Now. Rather than depicting spectacular moments of crisis, Dale’s narratives trace the quiet restructuring of domestic intimacy under the emotional pressure of pre-Brexit Britain. I argue that Dale uses childhood, household routines, and everyday gestures to reveal how migrants internalise surveillance at the level of affect. Drawing selectively on Sara Ahmed’s theory of emotional circulation, Lauren Berlant’s concept of intimate publics, and Judith Butler’s reflections on precarity, the article demonstrates that belonging in these stories emerges as anticipatory emotional labour rather than stable social recognition. By placing Dale in dialogue with Central/Eastern European discussions, the article situates her prose within a broader literary exploration of crisis as an affective condition. Članek preučuje, kako je pripadnost migrantov afektivno regulirana, preden postane predmet pravne izključitve v kratkih zgodbah Agnieszke Dale Fox Season (Sezona lisic), A Happy Nation (Srečen narod) in What We Should Feel Now (Kaj bi morali zdaj čutiti). Namesto da bi avtoričine pripovedi prikazovale spektakularne trenutke krize, sledijo tihemu prestrukturiranju domače intimnosti pod čustvenim pritiskom Britanije pred brexitom. Ugotovljeno je, da A. Dale uporablja otroštvo, gospodinjske rutine in vsakdanje geste, da bi razkrila, kako migranti ponotranjijo nadzor na ravni afekta. Članek, ki se selektivno opira na teorijo čustvenega kroženja Sare Ahmed, koncept intimnih javnosti Lauren Berlant in razmišljanja Judith Butler o prekarnosti, dokazuje, da se pripadnost v teh zgodbah pojavlja kot anticipatorno čustveno delo in ne kot stabilno družbeno priznanje. S tem, ko Agnieszko Dale postavi v dialog s srednjeevropskimi/vzhodnoevropskimi razpravami, članek njeno prozo umesti v širše literarno raziskovanje krize kot afektivnega stanja. migration cultural nomadism affect belonging kulturni nomadizem pripadnost afekt true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2026-07-15 03:09:50 2026-08-26 13:09:03 2026-08-28 12:06:56 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 str. 291-304 št. 1 Letn. 19 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-06-24 821.162.1-32.09:316.647.5 284510979 10.18690/scn.19.1.291-304.2026 1855-6302 RAZ_Cieplińska_Katarzyna_2026.pdf RAZ_Cieplińska_Katarzyna_2026.pdf 1 996B169BF1FF8F8DCD82AE9929928DF7 69950b725f3e3585a35fa888b8e300ec86c28879c204792815afb5fc166fe20c a128eb42-a13f-11f1-a6e9-00155d0001be https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=210568 https://journals.um.si/index.php/slaviacentralis/sl/article/view/6189 1 e18d7309-7fe9-11f1-8699-00155d580e34 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=208276 Filozofska fakulteta Univerzitetna založba Univerze v Mariboru Slavia Centralis 0 0 0