ABSTRACT
This chapter is prompted by a series of emotional responses: first, to Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s 1822 “A Letter from Sydney”; second between the contributors to the workshop underpinning this volume; and third to the emotions alive in the volume’s chapters. The chapter posits that we learn from and intellectually (not just biologic ally) experience emotions and that they are valuable part of our evaluative abilities. From this premise, the chapter situates the authors’ understanding of emotions within the affective turn, and then reflects on and engages with emotions in the chapters across four registers. The chapter uses these overlapping registers to reflect on the importance of emotions in understanding debates about value and to respond to it in its complexity and contradiction.
