Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Moral Emotions in Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9783319810171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 275 str.

Benjamin Lamb-Books

Spis treści

Part I - Moral Emotions in Social Movements

 

Chapter 1    Indignant Hearts of Protest

 

Chapter 2    Moving Contexts of Abolition

 

Chapter 3    The Rhetoric of Slavery

Part II - Emotional Inequalities of Protest

 

Chapter 4    Gender Trouble in Abolitionism: On Ethos Work

 

Chapter 5    Systemic Racism and the Rhetoric of Recognition

 

 

Part III - Affect Matters

 

Chapter 6    How Charisma and Pathos Move Audiences

  Chapter 7    Looking Back Ahead: When Status Conflicts Explode

 

Conclusion

O autorze

Benjamin Lamb-Books received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is an invited contributor to the second edition of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and his previous writings have appeared in Social Movement Studies and Thesis Eleven.

Blurb

This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.