Public Emotions

261 Pages·2007·1.377 MB·English

by  Perri Six, Susannah Radstone, Corinne Squire, Amal Treacher (eds.)

Public Emotions
Also by the editors
Perri 6
MANAGING NETWORKS OF TWENTY FIRST CENTURY ORGANISATIONS
(co-author)
BEYOND ‘DELIVERY’: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AS SENSE-MAKING AND
SETTLEMENT
(co-author)
E-GOVERNANCE: STYLES OF POLITICAL JUDGMENT IN THE INFORMATION
AGE POLITY
TOWARDS HOLISTIC GOVERNANCE: THE NEW REFORM AGENDA
(co-author)
Susannah Radstone
SWEET DREAMS(editor)
MEMORY AND METHODOLOGY(editor)
REGIMES OF MEMORY (co-editor)
CONTESTED PASTS: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY (co-editor)
CULTURE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS(co-editor)
ON MEMORY AND CONFESSION: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF TIME
Corinne Squire
CULTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY(editor)
MORALITYUSA (co-author)
HIV IN SOUTH AFRICA
LINES OF NARRATIVE(co-editor)
Amal Treacher
THE DYNAMICS OF ADOPTION (co-editor)
LINES OF NARRATIVE (co-editor)
Public Emotions
Edited by
Perri 6
Nottingham Trent University
Susannah Radstone
University of East London
Corinne Squire
University of East London
Amal Treacher
University of Nottingham
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Corinne Squire and Amal Treacher 2007
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Contents
List of Figures and Pictures vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Perri 6, Corinne Squire, Amal Treacher and Susannah Radstone
Part I Emotions, Conflict and Settlement: a New
Durkheimian Approach 35
Chapter 1 Rituals Elicit Emotions to Define and Shape Public
Life: a Neo-Durkheimian Theory 37
Perri 6
Chapter 2 The Emotions at War: A Musicological Approach
to Understanding Atrocity in Sierra Leone 62
Paul Richards
Chapter 3 Public Emotion in a Colonial Context: a Case of
Spirit-Writing in Taiwan under Japanese Occupation 85
Stephan Feuchtwang
Part II Intrapsychic and ‘Public’ Emotions 103
Chapter 4 Anxiety, Mass Crisis and ‘the Other’ 105
Hélène Joffe
Chapter 5 Another Repressed Returns: the Re-Branding of
German Psychoanalysis 119
Stephen Frosh
Chapter 6 Surface Tensions: Emotion, Conflict and the Social
Containment of Dangerous Knowledge 139
Andrew Cooper
Chapter 7 Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis
and the Emotions 156
Michael Rustin
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Part III Cultural, Historical and Political Formations
of Emotion 179
Chapter 8 Theory and Affect: Undivided Worlds 181
Susannah Radstone
Chapter 9 Feeling Entitled: HIV, Entitlement Feelings and
Citizenship 202
Corinne Squire
Chapter 10 The Future is Not There for the Making: Enduring
Colonialism, Shame and Silence 231
Amal Treacher
Index 247
List of Figures and Pictures
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1 The four elementary types of ritual forms 48
Figure 1.2 Time enduring ritual compared with the four time
committed ritual forms 51
Figure 1.3 Some key specific bilateral relationships between
the four core types 54
Chapter 9
Picture 1: ‘Are youHIV prejudiced? National AIDS Trust, 2003.
Reproduced with kind permission of the National AIDS Trust 211
Pictures 2a, b, and c: ‘HIV/AIDS/POVERTY/SKINT/NO MONEY’
Crusaid, 2003. Reproduced with kind permission of Crusaid and
Henrik Knudson 212
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Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank, first, all contributors to this volume,
for their creative engagement with the book’s theme, and their pain-
staking work in readying their chapters for publication. We also owe a
great debt to our editor Jill Lake and her assistant Melanie Blair at
Palgrave, who have been unfailingly supportive and helpful about this
endeavour.
We are extremely grateful to the participants in the Matters of Feeling
seminar series, out of which this book grew, and to Economy and Society
for funding meetings of this study group. Participants in the earlier
Affect, Ethics and Citizenship seminar series also had a powerful
influence on this book’s concerns. In particular, we would like to
acknowledge the thought-provoking, insightful and generous con-
tributions of the late Ian Craib, who was involved with this project at
its beginning.
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Notes on the Contributors
Perri 6 is Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University. He
is author or co-author of more than 20 books and numerous articles.
He is well-known for his contribution to the development of the neo-
Durkheimian institutional theory. His recent books include Managing
networks of twenty first century organisations (with N Goodwin, E Peck
and F Freeman, 2006), Beyond ‘delivery’: policy implementation as sense-
making and settlement(with E Peck, 2006), E-governance: styles of political
judgment in the information age polity (2004), and Towards holistic
governance: the new reform agenda(with D Leat, K Seltzer and G Stoker,
2002), and he is currently working on another book to be published
in 2007 with Christine Bellamy and Charles Raab on the tensions
between joined-up government and confidentiality.
Andrew Cooper is Professor of Social Work at the University of East
London and the Tavistock Clinic. He is also a practising psychoana-
lytic psychotherapist who has always taken an interest in the applica-
tion of psychoanalytic thinking within the public sphere, and in the
development of cross-disciplinary theoretical models of psycho-social
phenomena.
Stephan Feuchtwang is a professorial research associate of the Depart-
ment of Anthropology, London School of Economics. His current
research interest is an anthropology of history, which he is currently
pursuing by enquiry into the transmission of grievous loss and which
in turn will lead him to joint projects of research on self-realisation, its
hopes and ambivalence, its frustration, and its substantiation at the
expense of ‘others’. His main area of research has been China and
Taiwan, but now it includes Germany.
Stephen Froshis Pro-Vice-Master, Professor of Psychology and Director
of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University
of London. He was previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist and
Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic.
His most recent books are The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999), Young
Masculinities(with Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman, 2002), After Words
(2002), Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis (2002),Critical Narrative Analysis
in Psychology (with Peter Emerson, 2004), Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’:
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