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the cultural politics of emotion: The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed, 2013-11-15 First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed, 2014-06-11 Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on. The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives. New for this editionA substantial 15,000-word Afterword on 'Emotions and Their Objects' which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studiesA revised BibliographyUpdated throughout. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed, 2014-06-11 A bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how emotions work and their effects on our daily lives. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion Athina Karatzogianni, Adi Kuntsman, 2012-03-13 Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Cultural Feelings Ben Highmore, 2017-05-18 Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural studies. Ben Highmore argues that feelings are political and cultural forms that orchestrate our encounters with the world. He utilises a range of case studies from twentieth-century British culture, focusing in particular on Home Front morale during the Blitz, the experiences of Caribbean migration in the post-war decades, the music of post-punk bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and more recent ‘state of the nation’ film and television, including Our Friends in the North and This is England. He finds evidence in oral history, in films, photographs, television, novels, music, policy documents, and journalism. Through these sources, this book tells a vivid and compelling story of our most recent history and argues that the urgent task for a progressive cultural politics will require the changing of moods as well as minds. Cultural Feelings is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in affect theory, emotion and culture. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Queer Phenomenology Sara Ahmed, 2006-12-04 In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Language and the Politics of Emotion Catherine A. Lutz, Lila Abu-Lughod, 1990-06-29 Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Compassion Lauren Berlant, 2014-03-14 In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how being compassionate is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place in scenes that are anxious, volatile, surprising, and even contradictory. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India Lisa Mitchell, 2009 The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India |
the cultural politics of emotion: Differences that Matter Sara Ahmed, 1998-11-26 Differences That Matter challenges existing ways of theorising the relationship between feminism and postmodernism which ask 'is or should feminism be modern or postmodern?' Sara Ahmed suggests that postmodernism has been allowed to dictate feminist debates and calls instead for feminist theorists to speak (back) to postmodernism, rather than simply speak on (their relationship to) it. Such a 'speaking back' involves a refusal to position postmodernism as a generalisable condition of the world and requires closer readings of what postmodernism is actually 'doing' in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Sara Ahmed hence examines constructions of postmodernism in relation to rights, ethics, subjectivity, authorship, meta-fiction and film. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Emotional Politics of Racism Paula Ioanide, 2015-05-20 With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support colorblindness and racial equality. With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into these contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence. How U.S. publics dominantly feel about crime, terrorism, welfare, and immigration often seems to trump whatever facts and evidence say about these politicized matters. Though four case studies—the police brutality case of Abner Louima; the exposure of torture at Abu Ghraib; the demolition of New Orleans public housing units following Hurricane Katrina; and a proposed municipal ordinance to deny housing to undocumented immigrants in Escondido, CA—Ioanide shows how racial fears are perpetuated, and how these widespread fears have played a central role in justifying the expansion of our military and prison system and the ongoing divestment from social welfare. But Ioanide also argues that within each of these cases there is opportunity for new mobilizations, for ethical witnessing: we must also popularize desires for justice and increase people's receptivity to the testimonies of the oppressed by reorganizing embodied and unconscious structures of feeling. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Blush Elspeth Probyn, 2005 Exposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Queer Attachments Professor Sally R Munt, 2012-12-28 Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force? In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces – from eighteenth-century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics of Tracey Emin. She finds that the dynamics of shame are consistent across cultures and historical periods, and that patterns of shame are disturbingly long-lived. But she also reveals shame as an affective emotion, engendering attachments between bodies and between subjects – queer attachments. Above all, she celebrates the extraordinary human ability to turn shame into joy: the party after the fall. Queer Attachments is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Ugly Feelings Sianne Ngai, 2009-07-01 Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late-twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Passionate Politics Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Francesca Polletta, 2001-10 Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organisational models that dominate academic political analysis. These essays reverse the trend. |
the cultural politics of emotion: An Emotional State Anna M. Parkinson, 2015-08-28 Reveals the extent of Germany's emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique Moisi, 2009-05-05 In the first book to investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization, Dominique Moïsi shows how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a “clash of emotions.” The West, he argues, is dominated and divided by fear. For Muslims and Arabs, a culture of humiliation is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Asia, on the other hand, has been able to concentrate on building a better future, so it is creating a new culture of hope. Moïsi, a leading authority on international affairs, explains that in order to understand our changing world, we need to confront emotion. And as he makes his case, he deciphers the driving emotions behind our cultural differences, delineating a provocative and important new perspective on globalization. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Affect Effect George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, Michael MacKuen, Ann N. Crigler, 2008-09-15 Passion and emotion run deep in politics, but researchers have only recently begun to study how they influence our political thinking. Contending that the long-standing neglect of such feelings has left unfortunate gaps in our understanding of political behavior, The Affect Effect fills the void by providing a comprehensive overview of current research on emotion in politics and where it is likely to lead. In sixteen seamlessly integrated essays, thirty top scholars approach this topic from a broad array of angles that address four major themes. The first section outlines the philosophical and neuroscientific foundations of emotion in politics, while the second focuses on how emotions function within and among individuals. The final two sections branch out to explore how politics work at the societal level and suggest the next steps in modeling, research, and political activity itself. Opening up new paths of inquiry in an exciting new field, this volume will appeal not only to scholars of American politics and political behavior, but also to anyone interested in political psychology and sociology. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Feeling Politics D. Redlawsk, 2006-06-10 As part of the study of emotions and politics, this book explores connections between affect and cognition and their implications for political evaluation, decision and action. Emphasizing theory, methodology and empirical research, Feeling Politics is an important contribution to political science, sociology, psychology and communications. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Emotions in Politics N. Demertzis, 2013-10-31 Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political psychology and the political sociology of emotions to explore the complex relationship between politics and emotion at both the mass and individual level with special focus on cases of political tension. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Affective Communities in World Politics Emma Hutchison, 2016-03-11 A systematic examination of emotions and world politics, showing how emotions underpin political agency and collective action after trauma. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Feeling Power Megan Boler, 2004-11-23 First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the development of progressive pedagogies from civil rights and feminist movements to Boler's own recent studies of emotional intelligence and emotional literacy. Drawing on the formulation of emotion as knowledge within feminist, psychobiological, and post structuralist theories, Boler develops a unique theory of emotion missing from contemporary educational discourses. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Heritage, Affect and Emotion Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson, 2016-07-01 Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that which is more-than-representational, through the development of theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor network theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of heritage studies, this book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostalgia, pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of contributions that collectively - and with critical acuity - question how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings of both ’heritage-as-objects’ and ’objects-as-representations’ by opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in moments of encounter. Whilst representational understandings of heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of researchers who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes, practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation and other heritage work. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Documentary B. Smaill, 2009-11-30 Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries circulate in the public sphere. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Political Emotions Martha C. Nussbaum, 2013-10-01 How can we achieve and sustain a decent liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of social justice, Martha Nussbaum makes the case for love. Amid the fears, resentments, and competitive concerns that are endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love—in intense attachments to things outside our control—can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy. Great democratic leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., have understood the importance of cultivating emotions. But people attached to liberalism sometimes assume that a theory of public sentiments would run afoul of commitments to freedom and autonomy. Calling into question this perspective, Nussbaum investigates historical proposals for a public civil religion or religion of humanity by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, and Rabindranath Tagore. She offers an account of how a decent society can use resources inherent in human psychology, while limiting the damage done by the darker side of our personalities. And finally she explores the cultivation of emotions that support justice in examples drawn from literature, song, political rhetoric, festivals, memorials, and even the design of public parks. Love is what gives respect for humanity its life, Nussbaum writes, making it more than a shell. Political Emotionsis a challenging and ambitious contribution to political philosophy. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist Sunil Yapa, 2016-01-14 A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot . . . 1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today his father is in charge of one of the largest protests in the history of Western democracy. But in a matter of hours reality will become a nightmare. Hordes of protesters - from all sections of society - will test the patience of the city's police force, and lives will be altered forever: two armed police officers will struggle to keep calm amid the threat of violence; a protester with a murderous past will make an unforgivable mistake; and a delegate from Sri Lanka will do whatever it takes to make it through the crowd to a meeting - a meeting that could dramatically change the fate of his country. In amongst the fray, Victor and his father are heading for a collision too. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, set during the World Trade Organization protests, is a deeply charged novel showcasing a distinct and exciting new literary voice. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Political Sociology of Emotions Nicolas Demertzis, 2020-06-01 The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of emotions is coterminous with political sociology itself plus the emotive angle added in the investigation of its traditional and more recent areas of research. The worldwide predominance of affective anti-politics (e.g., the securitization of immigration policies, reactionism, terrorism, competitive authoritarianism, nationalism and populism, etc.) makes the political sociology of emotions increasingly necessary in making the prospects of democracy and republicanism in the twenty-first century more intelligible. Through a weak constructionist theoretical perspective, the book shows the utility of this new sub-field by addressing two central themes: trauma and ressentiment. Trauma is considered as a key cultural-political phenomenon of our times, evoking both negative and positive emotions; ressentiment is a pertaining individual and collective political emotion allied to insecurities and moral injuries. In tandem, they constitute fundamental experiences of late modern times. The value of the political sociology of emotions is revealed in the analysis of civil wars, cultural traumas, the politics of pity, the suffering of distant others in the media, populism, and national identities on both sides of the Atlantic. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Moving Subjects, Moving Objects Maruška Svašek, 2012-05-01 In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Promise of Happiness Sara Ahmed, 2010-04-06 The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy. |
the cultural politics of emotion: On Being Included Sara Ahmed, 2012-03-28 Ahmed argues that a commitment to diversity is frequently substituted for a commitment to actual change. She traces the work that diversity does, examining how the term is used and the way it serves to make questions about racism seem impertinent. Her study is based in universities and her research is primarily in the UK and Australia, but the argument is equally valid in North America and beyond. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Emotions Helena Wulff, 2024-11-01 Emotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. The Emotions: A Cultural Reader applies a cross-cultural perspective on emotions. It examines the fact that emotions are socially and culturally constructed, while highlighting problems of comparison and translation of local terms and emotional experiences. Are emotions cultural or universal? To what extent are there culturally distinct emotions? The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. By presenting both classic essays and new cutting-edge chapters from anthropology, sociology and psychology with important contributions from philosophy and neuroscience, the volume connects a rich range of cross-cultural studies to form a thriving interdisciplinary debate on emotions. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Emotional Self Deborah Lupton, 1998-06-18 `This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.' - Feminism and Psychology This broad-ranging and accessible book brings together social and cultural theory with original empirical research into the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The emphasis of the analysis is on the emotional self as a dynamic project that is continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. Using an interdisciplinary approa |
the cultural politics of emotion: Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed, 2014-08-25 In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Politics of Resentment Jeremy Engels, 2015-06-18 In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A number of more recent school shootings have given this debate a renewed sense of urgency, as have the continued use of violent metaphors in public address and the dishonorable state of America’s partisan gridlock. This conversation, unfortunately, has been complicated by a collective cultural numbness to violence. But that does not mean that fruitful conversations should not continue. In The Politics of Resentment, Jeremy Engels picks up this thread, examining the costs of violent political rhetoric for our society and the future of democracy. The Politics of Resentment traces the rise of especially violent rhetoric in American public discourse by investigating key events in American history. Engels analyzes how resentful rhetoric has long been used by public figures in order to achieve political ends. He goes on to show how a more devastating form of resentment started in the 1960s, dividing Americans on issues of structural inequalities and foreign policy. He discusses, for example, the rhetorical and political contexts that have made the mobilization of groups such as Nixon’s “silent majority” and the present Tea Party possible. Now, in an age of recession and sequestration, many Americans believe that they have been given a raw deal and experience feelings of injustice in reaction to events beyond individual control. With The Politics of Resentment, Engels wants to make these feelings of victimhood politically productive by challenging the toxic rhetoric that takes us there, by defusing it, and by enabling citizens to have the kinds of conversations we need to have in order to fight for life, liberty, and equality. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Political Emotions Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, Ann Reynolds, 2010-07-02 Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling critiques on the opposition of the public and private spheres, chapters in this volume examine why some sentiments are valued in public communication while others are judged irrelevant, and consider how sentiments mobilize political trajectories. Emerging from the work of the Public Feelings research group at the University of Texas-Austin, and cohering in a New Agendas in Communication symposium, this volume brings together the work of young scholars from various areas of study, including sociology, gender studies, anthropology, art, and new media. The essays in this collection formulate new ways of thinking about the relations among the emotional, the cultural, and the political. Contributors recraft familiar ways of doing critical work, and bring forward new analyses of emotions in politics. Their work expands understanding of the role of emotion in the political realm, and will be influential in political communication, political science, sociology, and visual and cultural studies. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Emotions, Media and Politics Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, 2019-01-15 Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital ingredient in shaping our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions, as they circulate through the media, can also be divisive and exclusionary. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen makes the case for researching the role of emotions in mediated politics. Drawing on a series of studies, she explores the complex relationship between emotions, politics and media. The book includes analyses of how Facebook structures emotional reactions; the anger of Donald Trump; the use of personal storytelling in feminist Twitter hashtags; the role of emotionality in award-winning journalism; and the communities created by political fandoms. Essential reading for scholars and students, this important volume opens up new ways of thinking about and researching emotions, media and politics. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Affective Relations C. Pedwell, 2014-09-09 Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernandez, Jo Labanyi, 2016-06-20 Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere. The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms—political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media—with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications. |
the cultural politics of emotion: Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Griet Vandermassen, 2005-02-10 Why should feminism and the biological sciences be at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences—and in particular evolutionary psychology—have the need and the potential to become powerful allies. Properly understood, the Darwinian perspective proposed in this volume will become essential to tackling the major issues in feminism. |
the cultural politics of emotion: The Emotions of Protest James M. Jasper, 2018-05-24 In Donald Trump’s America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women’s March, held the day after Trump’s inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump’s tweets and the march’s popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again. There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus has mostly been on the calculating brain—a byproduct of structuralism and cognitive studies—and less on the feeling brain. James M. Jasper’s work changes that, as he pushes the boundaries of our present understanding of the social world. In The Emotions of Protest, Jasper lays out his argument, showing that it is impossible to separate cognition and emotion. At a minimum, he says, we cannot understand the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street or pro- and anti-Trump rallies without first studying the fears and anger, moral outrage, and patterns of hate and love that their members feel. This is a book centered on protest, but Jasper also points toward broader paths of inquiry that have the power to transform the way social scientists picture social life and action. Through emotions, he says, we are embedded in a variety of environmental, bodily, social, moral, and temporal contexts, as we feel our way both consciously and unconsciously toward some things and away from others. Politics and collective action have always been a kind of laboratory for working out models of human action more generally, and emotions are no exception. Both hearts and minds rely on the same feelings racing through our central nervous systems. Protestors have emotions, like everyone else, but theirs are thinking hearts, not bleeding hearts. Brains can feel, and hearts can think. |
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Das Buch The Cultural Politics of Emotion ist eine Sammlung von selbstständigen Aufsätzen, die keinem übergeordneten Narrativ folgen und nach einzelnen Emotionen wie Liebe, Hass, …
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In this section, I will address how disgust works performatively not only as the intensification of contact between bodies and objects, but also as a speech act. In other words, I want us to …
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opportunity to rethink the cultural politics of emotion Although the political formations in the region are laden with a multitude of emotions they tend to be poorly understood This book explains …
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In this chapter, I want to argue that norms surface as the surfaces of bodies; norms are a matter of impressions, of how bodies are 'impressed upon' by the world, as a world made up of …
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progressive cultural politics will require the changing of moods as well as minds. Cultural Feelings is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in affect theory, emotion and …
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Rich Sentiments and the Cultural Politics of Emotion
Their folk models of emotion, sentiment, and selfhood at times contradict and coincide with each other, revealing the emergence of the new meanings that emotion takes on.
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As Goodman shows us, the moral defence of the family as a way of life becomes a matter of ‘global politics’. I have already considered how the defence of the war against terrorism has …
Emotions in Politics: A Review of Contemporary Perspectives and …
Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, this review article synthesizes diverse perspectives on the role of emotions in political interactions, emphasizing their impact on individual and …
The Politics of Emotion in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, Film, …
The Politics of Emotion in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, Film, and Culture . TU Hang . Course Description . This course examines Chinese literature, film, and culture from the late seventies to the contemporary era, with a focus on the expression and representation of …
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed Edinburgh University Press. Contents Acknowledgements vi ... 1 The Contingency of Pain 20 2 The Organisation of Hate 42 3 The Affective Politics of Fear 62 4 The Performativity of Disgust 82 5 Shame Before Others 101 6 In the Name of Love 122 7 Queer Feelings 144 8 Feminist Attachments 168 Conclusion ...
The Politics of Emotion in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, Film, …
The Politics of Emotion in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, Film, and Culture . TU Hang . Course Description . This course examines Chinese literature, film, and culture from the late seventies to the contemporary era, with a focus on the expression and representation of …
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural ...
dataset that traces Chinese netizens’ discussion of American politics on an online forum, this study examines key predictors of cultural power – novelty, emotion, status, and linguistic features – using an innovative diachronic word-embedding …
Cultural Theory and Emotions - Springer
generally not sufficient to determine which emotion is being experienced. Cultural definitions come into play in defining how a particular pattern of arousal or physiological changes should be labeled. For example, cultural knowledge is important in determining whether a rapid heart rate is symptomatic of excitement or fear in a given situation.
From the Imagination of Cultural Politics of Emotion to a …
From the Imagination of Cultural Politics of Emotion to a Community of Sentiment -Take the Example of Mainland Chinese Students Migrating from Mainland China to Taiwan to listen to Taiwan Music . Yingbo Tian . Athens Institute for Education and Research 9 Chalkokondili Street, 10677 Athens, Greece .
Resisting Trauma: Exploring Queer Emotional Narratives in …
The cultural politics of emotion, as proposed by Sara Ahmed (2015), redefines emotion as a social-cultural practice rather than an individual psychological state. Emotions, in this context, are not confined to subjects or objects but are produced through the circulation of
The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-building: Ritual …
The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-building: ... politics, the trend towards ritual and performance seems even more pronounced. Democratic ... to communicate via emotion. Thus, as we will discuss in more depth in the following section, according to Durkheim (1995 [1912]), the intense emotions that can be generated among the ...
Emotion as Power: Capital and Strategy in the Field of Power
cultural, critical, social psychological, positivist and so on has made a significant contribution to our – ... 2004, p.229). When emotion meets politics, in much of the scientific analysis, it continues to be treated as something ‘other’ to mainstream, elite, and everyday political power, as something deployed in various ways by . 5
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Cultural Politics of Emotion, I explore how emotions work to shape the ‘sur-faces’ of individual and collective bodies. Bodies take the shape of the very contact they have with objects and others. My analysis proceeds by reading texts that circulate in the public domain, which work by …
Branding politics: Emotion, authenticity, and the marketing culture …
value versus use value, emotion and reason, and the tension of authenticity and cynicism. The original research is based upon 38 one-on-one, in-depth interviews with political consultants, including media strategists, communication directors, and advertising producers who are involved in the encoding and cultural production of political discourse.
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The series privileges the cultural politics of emotion and affect as key categories of heritage experience. These are the reg-isters through which the authors in the series engage with theory, methods and innovations in scholarship in the sphere of heritage studies. Published Heritage, Affect and Emotion Politics, practices and infrastructures
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cultural politics of the emotions conveyed by music, as well as reflections on the . 7 . individual and the Mainland Chinese students as a group. The expected results ... imagination,emotion and sentiment, so this study is an innovation. 2024-5908-MED – 29 APR 2024 . 5. 1 . 2 . 3 .
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The Cultural Politics Of Emotion: The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2013-11-15 First Published in 2004 Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2014-06-11 Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world ...
The Politics of Emotion in the Mexican Revolution: The Tears of …
a top-down process, the cultural-political construct that emerged in this pe-riod ‘was shaped, resisted, and ultimately negotiated by a multitude of actors and interests, and lo mexicano came to serve counterhegemonic impulses as well as regime projects’ (Joseph et al. 2001: 8). While the cultural politics of
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of four community -based cultural heritage projects and archives. It follows three groups of girl s and ... Chapter 1: Introduction: conviviality, heritage, politics, and emotion 1.1 Introduction :DONLQJGRZQWR&DUGLII·VIRUPHUGRFNODQGV neighbourhood through the city centre, I left the bright ...
War as Emotion: Cultural Fields of Conflict and Feeling - Springer
Frevert has explored the gendered emotional politics of duelling in Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel3 Frevert’s more recent . work extends forward to study the impact of these aristocratic attitudes on international relations …
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2013-11-15 First Published in 2004 Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion Athina Karatzogianni,Adi Kuntsman,2012-03-13 Fifteen thought provoking essays engage
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The politics of multiculturalism:multicultural governance in comparative perspective/Augie Fleras. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Multiculturalism—Political aspects—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Ethnicity—Political aspects—Cross-cultural studies. 3. Comparative government. I. Title. HM1271.F55 2009 320.08—dc22 ...
Emotion as Power: Capital and Strategy in the Field of Power
cultural, critical, social psychological, positivist and so on has made a significant contribution to our – ... 2004, p.229). When emotion meets politics, in much of the scientific analysis, it continues to be treated as something ‘other’ to mainstream, elite, and everyday political power, as something deployed in various ways by . 5 .
Feeling the Threat of Race in Education: Exploring the Cultural ...
Cultural Politics of Emotions in CRT-Ban Political Discourses Rican Vue University of California, Riverside Katrya Txay Ly University of California, Riverside ... examined how emotion is employed in the lan-guage of proposed and enacted legislation, news …
Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene - Springer
Cultural Politics of Hygiene Hygiene is back in the headlines. In slightly more than a decade, the SARS outbreak, the swine flu, and more recently the avian flu ... Affect, emotion, and feelings produced an impressive template for cleanliness, care, and order for the modern Indian nation, society, and household. Such a template, I further ...
Emotion as power: capital and strategy in the field of politics
ARTICLE Emotion as power: capital and strategy in the field of politics Jonathan G. Heaney School of Social Sciences Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Branding politics: Emotion, authenticity, and the marketing culture …
value versus use value, emotion and reason, and the tension of authenticity and cynicism. The original research is based upon 38 one-on-one, in-depth interviews with political consultants, including media strategists, communication directors, and advertising producers who are involved in the encoding and cultural production of political discourse.
The Documentary Politics Emotion Culture - ResearchGate
3 1 Introduction: Representation and Documentary Emotion To speak about documentary is to immediately bring to mind the genre’s associations with science, education and social responsibility, or
Why feelings trump facts : anti-politics, citizenship and emotion
students of politics (professors included) and practitioners of politics really need to understand why feelings matter and to engage at an emotional level. Simply put, I think it is an emotional disconnection that exists at the root of what Claudia Chwalisz (2015) describes as ‘the populist signal’. So in this lecture I want to explore anti-
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daily lives The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2013-11-15 First Published in 2004 Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company Differences that Matter Sara Ahmed,1998-11-26 Differences That Matter challenges existing ways of theorising the relationship between feminism and postmodernism which ask is or should feminism ...
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Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2014-06-11 A bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how …
Introduction: Emotions and Change - Brill
Press, 2001); Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against Katie Barclay This introduction to the special issue on ‘Emotions and Change’ introduces the main theories of the role of emotion in processes of social and political ... Although the role of emotion in social, cultural and political change has
Cultural Memory Studies - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
as either the “theory of cultural memory” or as “cultural memory studies”. In addition to these cultural and disciplinary differences, of which one must be aware when translating and reading about the theory of cultural memory, there is also a historical index that illustrates the differences
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Ahmed: I was influenced, particularly in “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, by . the work of Alison Jaggar and Elizabeth Spelman, feminist philosophers look-ing at the history of philosophy and thinking about the relation between mind and body. I learned a lot from their feminist critiques of the tendency to devalue
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh, UP, 2004. Hemmings, Clare. 'Invoking affect: cultural theory and the ontological turn.' Cultural Studies 19.5 (2005): 548-567. Postcolonial / transnational feminisms Abu-Lughod, Lila. 'Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others.'
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of objective neutrality. In response, cultural criminologists have noted the slippery politics of such representational codes—codes that have functioned, in both the historical emergence of criminology and the contemporary ascendance of criminal justice, as cultural displays masking intellectual alliances with political and economic power.
Emotional Liberty: Politics and History in the Anthropology of …
Emotional Liberty: Politics and History in the Anthropology of Emotions William M. Reddy Duke University To speak of the relations among political power, history, and the anthropology of emotion is to speak of a gap that theory and methodology have been unable to bridge. Anthropologists working on emotions have continued to depend heavily
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emotion is expressed in a variety of cultural settings, the collection leaves us wait- ing for the other shoe to drop in understanding the nature of emotion itself. Double Talk: Bilingualism and ...
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emotion words and patterns that pervades specific cultural con-texts. On the other end, psychoanalytical and affect-theoretical ap-1 Drawing on Arlie Hochschild, Sara Ahmed (2010: 41) uses the term ‘inappro- proaches emphasize the variability and inherently indeterminate priate affect’ to describe such experiences.
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Emotion Feelings … Access Free Digital Cultures And The Politics Of Emotion Feelings Affect And Technological ChangeAmerica, this book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements as they struggle for new visions and practices of … Digital cultures and the politics of emotion feelings affect … cultures and the politics of ...
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The Cultural Politics Of Emotion Sara Ahmed The Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2013-11-15 First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Cultural Politics of Emotion Sara Ahmed,2014-06-11 Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than ...
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for them to perform what Truett-Anderson (1990) terms theatrical politics. The recognition of the importance of images, performance, and emotions in the prosecution of politics means that activist performances—particularly cultural forms of activism—become important sites of political intervention.6 Cultural Activism and Ethical Spectacles
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CATHERINE LUTZ & LIA ABU-LUGHOD (eds.), Language and the politics of emotion. (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction I.) Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1990. Pp. Vii + 217. This collection of eight essays (including two by the editors) grew out of a session at the I987 American Anthropological Association meetings entitled
Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media
tion to the cultural and historical specificity of media, it is possible to apply psychoanalytic discourse in a way that takes account of the psy-chological, cultural and political complexities of contemporary cultural experience. This book argues for the value of a framework in which to
Affective Communities and World Politics - E-International Relations
At the same time, a turn to emotions in world politics can do more than shine a brighter light on particular political issues and questions. An appreciation of the social and cultural nature of emotions, and of how social forms of emotion are structured through context and time, points to an understanding of emotions as collective, political
Emotions, Social Activity and Neuroscience: The Cultural-Historical ...
underpinning many of the dominant and popular accounts of emotion in the neurosciences. Acknowledging that neurobiology is important for any understanding of emotion, an alternative model of neuropsychology is sought in the work of theorists of the cultural-historical school, particularly A. N. Leontyev and A. R. Luria.
Cheang and Suterwalla Decolonizing the Curriculum 2020
ways we live our politics, not only in our teaching but also in the writing of this journal article, our aim is not to model ideal course structures or decolonial techniques, but more to argue for the importance of shifts in consciousness as the single most important strategy. For it is in the transparency and positionality of our practices as
Politics, Protest, Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Politics, emotion and identity performancepresents a series of personal ... cultural context. Taking this emphasis upon the inhuman, pre-subjective forces and
Emotion, Space and Society - Goldsmiths, University of London
emotion words and patterns that pervades specific cultural con-texts. On the other end, psychoanalytical and affect-theoretical ap-1 Drawing on Arlie Hochschild, Sara Ahmed (2010: 41) uses the term ‘inappro- proaches emphasize the variability and inherently indeterminate priate affect’ to describe such experiences.
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in - Springer
City newspaper, the Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsiváis denounced both Amores perros and Y tu mama también in the aftermath of their box-office success as examples of a shallow postmodern cinema, emphasizing ... The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema ...
Review - JSTOR
The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Sara Ahmed (New York: Routledge, 2004. 224 pages). Reviewed by Rachel C. Riedner, George Washington University Sara Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of Emotion provides a close reading of the everyday, lived emotions that are part of larger material and discursive structures of the nation-state. Specifically,