Affective communities in world politics : collective emotions after trauma
Emma Hutchison
Bok · Engelsk · 2016
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016
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| Omfang | 378 p.
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| 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
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| Emner | Communities
Effects Emotions Group identity Vis mer... International organizations
International relations Political aspects Political psychology Political sociology Politics Psychiatry Psychological aspects Sociology Trauma Asiagroup Diplomacygroup Economygroup Emerginggroup Energygroup Peacegroup Russiagroup Securitygroup |
| Dewey | 159.942:327 . - 327
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| ISBN | 1-316-15467-X
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