Affective communities in world politics : collective emotions after trauma


Emma Hutchison, the University of Queensland.
Bok Engelsk 2016
Utgitt
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016
Omfang
378 p.
Opplysninger
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The paradox of trauma: the breaking and remaking of community; The crucial but underappreciated role of emotions; Emotions and world politics; Structure of the book; Part I Conceptual framework; 1 Trauma and political community; The isolation of trauma; Conceptualizing trauma; Identity and meaning after trauma; The social and political dimensions of trauma From individual to collective: performing trauma and constituting communitySituating individual trauma in a communal context; Trauma and collective identity; Trauma and memory; Summary; 2 Theorizing political emotions; The challenge of expressing trauma; Political trauma, political emotions; The politics of emotion; Emotions in social research; Conceptualizing collective, political emotions; Political communities as affective communities; Summary; 3 Representing trauma and collectivizing emotions; Representation, narrative and discourse; Representing trauma, no matter how inadequately The politics of representing traumaRepresenting trauma and the power of emotions; Summary; Part II The emotional constitution of political community; 4 Emotions and national community; Narrating a national trauma across a transnational space: examining media representations of the 2002 Bali bombing; Paradise lost as "Terror Hits Home": the emotional resonance and collectivizing...; Grievable lives and sublime horror: from images of the unimaginable to those that invoke outrage and solace; Summary: emotions and the transnational mediation of a national trauma 5 Emotions and transnational communityPitiable pictures: how colonial frames prompted Western viewers to make emotional sense of the tsunami disaster; The disempowerment of local actors: the developing world as dark, primitive and powerless; Viewers as responsive distant actors: the need for urgent aid and the West as the developing world's "white knight"; Summary: from pity and compassion to a transnational aid commitment; 6 Trauma, grief and political transformation; China's chosen trauma: enacting the "Century of National Humiliation" Representing national humiliation: the celebration of trauma and the emotional inscription of the Chinese nationUnfinished mourning, emotions and the failure to work through trauma; The potentials for working through a traumatic past: toward the possibility of grieving trauma; South Africa and the struggle over apartheid: the TRC as an attempt to grieve and heal societal trauma; Emotions and a global politics of grief; Summary: from emotionally enacting trauma to reclaiming trauma through grief; Conclusion; Communities of feeling: how representations can configure boundaries of affect Emotions as social and political forces
Emner
Dewey
327
ISBN
1-316-15467-X

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