Affinities: potent connections in personal life

What does it mean when a life is changed through the serendipity of a chance encounter?

How is it that someone can feel an affinity with a place?

What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a chance encounter with a smell or a texture or a song?

In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.

In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities - potent charges and charismatically lively connections in our relationalities, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant the everyday.