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

249 Pages·2012·1.21 MB·English

by  Simon Thompson

Politics and
the Emotions
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Politics and
the Emotions
The aff ective turn in
contemporary political studies
Edited by
PAUL HOGGETT
AND
SIMON THOMPSON

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Contents
Acknowledgements v ii
List of contributors ix
1 Introduction 1
Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson
PART ONE Emotion, antagonism and
deliberation
21
2 Passionate participation: Emotional experiences and
expressions in deliberative forums
23
Marion Barnes
3 Deliberative rituals: Emotional energy and enthusiasm in
debating landscape renewal
41
Bas van Stokkom
PART TWO Politics and fear
59
4 The liberalism of fear and the desire for peace 61
Michael Northcott
5 Mobilizing fear: US politics before and after 9/11 79
Scott Lucas
PART THREE The aff ective dimension of political
mobilization
93
6 Political despair 95
Deborah B. Gould
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vi CONTENTS
7 ‘Building on a fi rm foundation of tolerance and love?’
Emotional refl exivity in feminist political processes
115
Mary Holmes
PART FOUR The politics of reparation
137
8 The apology in politics 139
Michael Cunningham
9 Peace-building in Sierra Leone: The emotional dimension 157
Steven Kaindaneh and Andrew Rigby
PART FIVE Politics and the triumph of the
therapeutic
181
10 The therapeutic fantasy: Self-love and quick wins 183
Tim Dartington
11 The slippery slope and the emancipation of emotions 199
Cas Wouters
I ndex 217
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Acknowledgements
T
he origins of this book lie in a series of research seminars entitled ‘Politics
and Emotions’, which was very generously supported by the Economic
and Social Research Council (award/grant reference RES-451-25-4281).
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List of contributors
Marian Barnes is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Applied Social
Science, University of Brighton, United Kingdom. A major theme of her work
for the last 20+ years has been user involvement and user movements,
public participation, citizenship and new forms of democratic practice. Her
books include: P ower, Participation and Political Renewal (2007) (with Janet
Newman and Helen Sullivan); and Subversive Citizens: Power, Agency and
Resistance in Public Services (2009) (with David Prior), both Policy Press.
Michael C unningham is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. His principal research interests are
Northern Irish politics on which he has published widely including British
Government Policy in Northern Ireland 1969–2000 (Manchester University
Press, 2001) and, more recently, the politics of apology on which he has
published several articles.
Tim D artington is a researcher and social analyst in health and social care and
associate at The Tavistock Institute in London and the Tavistock & Portman
NHS Trust. He is a member of Organisation for Promoting Understanding
of Society (OPUS) and of the International Society for the Psycho-Analytic
Study of Organizations (ISPSO). He is the author of M anaging Vulnerability,
the Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care (Karnac Books, 2010).
Deborah B. Gould was involved in ACT UP for many years as well as the
Chicago activist group, Queer to the Left, and is a founding member of
the art/activism/research collaborative group, Feel Tank Chicago. She is an
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her scholarly interests are in contentious politics and political emotion. Her
book M oving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS was pub-
lished by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.
Paul H oggett is Professor of Social Policy at the University of the West of
England and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is the author of several
books in social policy but also has a long-standing interest in understanding
public life from a nonrationalist perspective. His books in this area include
Partisans in an Uncertain World (Free Association Books, 1992), E motional
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