The Politics of Negative Emotions

Dan Degerman, Dan Degerman

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781529228809
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Thema: Política mundial

Negative emotions, including anger, fear, and shame, have been at the heart of recent political events, such as the protests against COVID-19 restrictions. These negative emotions can be politically destructive, leading people to act rashly without due concern for democratic principles. However, they can also accurately signal wrongdoing and motivate acts to redress the situation, as displayed in the Black Lives Matter and climate change movements. This volume brings together perspectives from political science and philosophy to shed new light on the political faces of negative emotions. Engaging with real-world political events from Europe, the US, and Africa, contributors critically evaluate much-discussed emotions, such as anger and fear, but also less prominent ones, such as frustration and discomfort.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Feeling Our Way through Politics
• 1 Anger, Fast and Slow: Mediations of Justice and Violence in the Age of Populism
• 2 ‘We Will March Side by Side and Demand a Bigger Table’: Anger as Dignity Claim
• 3 Moving between Frustration and Anger
• 4 The Resentment–Ressentiment Complex: A Critique of Liberal Discourse
• 5 Green Shame: The Next Moral Revolution?
• 6 Against Comfort: Political Implications of Evading Discomfort
• 7 For Love and for Life: Emotional Dynamics at the World Congress of Families
• 8 The Functionality of Affects: Conceptualising Far-Right Populist Politics beyond Negative Emotions
• 9 Moral Economies of Exclusion: Politics of Fear through Antagonistic Anonymity
• 10 Contesting the Politics of Negative Emotions in Educational Policy Making: A Ban on Asylum Seekers’ School Visits in Finland
• Index