Power and Emotion

ISBN-13: 9780367739997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Jonathan Heaney; Helena Flam

Opis

This collection, featuring leading international academics, seeks to address, unite and deploy two core concepts of social and political science, emotion and power, in a variety of ways and topics, including education, organizations, social movements, politics, ‘old’ and ‘new’ media, rhetoric and in comparative intellectual history.

Spis treści

1. Emotions and power: a bifocal prescription to cure theoretical myopia  2. The transnational movement for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation as an emotional (rule) regime?  3. Compassion, power and organization  4. The paradox of power: conceptions of power and the relations of reason and emotion in European and Chinese culture  5. Emotions, power and space in the discourse of ‘People of the Real World’ 6. The power of popular publicity: new social media and the affective dynamics of the sport racism scandal  7. A feeling for democracy? Rhetoric, power and the emotions  8. Memorial ceremonies in schools: analyzing the entanglement of emotions and power  9. Emotions, power and schooling: the socialisation of ‘angry boys'

O autorze

Jonathan G. Heaney has recently completed a PhD in the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. His thesis examined emotions and social change in the Republic of Ireland. He is a member of the European Sociological Association Emotions Research Network (RN11) and the International Political Science Association Research Committee (RC36) on Political Power.

Helena Flam received her Fil. Kand in Sweden and her PhD from Columbia University, USA. She has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany, since 1993. She has published widely on emotions, social movements and work organizations, and is co-founder and member of the ESA Emotions Network (RN11).