Politics and the Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies

ISBN-13: 9781441173812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 248 str.

Simon Thompson

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Politics and the Emotions is a unique collection of essays that reflects the affective turn in the analysis of today's political world.Contributed by both prominent and younger scholars from Europe, US, and Australia, the book aims to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions. To do so, essays are organized around five key thematic areas: emotion, antagonism and deliberation, the politics of fear, the affective dimension of political mobilization, the politics of reparation, and politics and the triumph of the therapeutic. In addition, each chapter includes a case study to demonstrate the application of concepts to practical issues, from the war on terror in the UK and the AIDS activist organization ACT UP in the US to women's liberation movement in New Zealand and Dutch policy experiments.Politics and the Emotions provides an accessible introduction to a rapidly developing field that will appeal to students in political theory, public and social policy, as well as the theory and practice of democracy.

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List of Contributors

1. Introduction
Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson

Part I. Emotion, Antagonism and Deliberation
2. Passionate Participation: Emotional Experiences and Expressions in Deliberative Forums
Marion Barnes     

3. Deliberative Rituals: Emotional Energy and Enthusiasm in Debating Landscape Renewal
Bas van Stokkom

Part II. Politics and Fear
4. The Liberalism of Fear and the Desire for Peace
Michael Northcott
   
5. Mobilizing Fear: U.S. Politics Before and After 9/11
Scott Lucas

Part III. The Affective Dimension of Political Mobilization
6. Political Despair
Deborah B. Gould

7. "Building on a Firm Foundation of Tolerance and Love?" Emotional Reflexivity in Feminist Political Processes
Mary Holmes

Part IV. The Politics of Reparation
8. The Apology in Politics
Michael Cunningham

9. Peace-Building in Sierra Leone: The Emotional Dimension
Steven Kaindaneh and Andrew Rigby
 
Part V. Politics and the Triumph of the Therapeutic
10. The Therapeutic Fantasy: Self-Love and Quick Wins
Tim Dartington
   
11. The Slippery Slope and the Emancipation of Emotions
Cas Wouters