ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how both negative emotions (disgust at supremacy) and positive emotions (desire for caring relationships) function as forms of eutopian critique and transformation. Moving beyond oppositional models of resistance, it demonstrates how critique can emerge through attraction to good feelings in caring relationships rather than heroic opposition to domination. The analysis shows how disgust with competitive masculinity and prioritisation of family relationships can create “discrete” forms of critique that gradually dissolve destructive dynamics by expanding spaces where different ways of relating can flourish.
