ABSTRACT
Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the collection offers a sense of the diversity of perspectives that have emerged over the last thirty years from a variety of intellectual traditions. Its wide span and trans-disciplinary character is designed to capture the increasing significance of the study of affect and emotion for the social sciences, and to give a sense of how this is played out in the context of specific areas of interest. The volume is divided into four main parts:
- universals and particulars of affect
- embodying affect
- political economies of affect
- affect, power and justice.
Each main part comprises three sections dedicated to substantive themes, including emotions, history and civilization; emotions and culture; emotions selfhood and identity; emotions and the media; emotions and politics; emotions, space and place, with a final section dedicated to themes of compassion, hate and terror. Each of the twelve sections begins with an editorial introduction that contextualizes the readings and highlights points of comparison across the volume. Cross-national in content, the collection provides an introduction to the key debates, concepts and modes of approach that have been developed by social scientist for the study of emotion and affective life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |118 pages
Universals and particulars of affect
part |33 pages
Emotions, history and civilization
part |42 pages
Emotions and culture
chapter |9 pages
Engendered Emotion
chapter |9 pages
Feeling and Thinking in Memory and Forgetting
part |40 pages
Emotions and society
chapter |5 pages
Power, Status, and Emotions
part |117 pages
Embodying affects
part |37 pages
Emotions, selfhood and identity
part |24 pages
Emotions, space and place
chapter |5 pages
Inequalities of the Heart
part |53 pages
Emotions and Health
chapter |8 pages
The Expressive Body
chapter |9 pages
Portrayals of Suffering
chapter |6 pages
The Work of Antidepressants
part |95 pages
Political economies of affect
part |37 pages
Emotion in work and organizations
chapter |12 pages
Challenging Racial Silences in Studies of Emotion Work
part |22 pages
Emotions, economics and consumer culture
part |33 pages
Emotions and the media
part |100 pages
Affect, power and justice
part |35 pages
Emotions and politics
chapter |9 pages
Rock the Boat, don't Rock the Boat, Baby
part |31 pages
Emotions and law
chapter |6 pages
Affective Versus Effective Justice
chapter |7 pages
Make-Believe Papers, Legal Forms and the Counterfeit
part |30 pages
Compassion, hate, and terror