The cultural politics of emotion / by Sara Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Sara, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Social aspects.

Emotions.

Political culture.

Political psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Summary:

What do emotions do? How do emotions move us or get us stuck? In developing a theory of the cultural politics of emotion, Sara Ahmed focuses on the relationship between emotions, language and bodies. She shows how emotions are named in speech acts, as well as how they involve sensations that are felt by the skin. The Cultural Politics of Emotion develops a new methodology for reading 'the emotionality of texts' and offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation. New for this edition: an extensive Afterword, 'Emotions and Their Objects,' which situates the book in relation to the emergent field of affect studies, as well as in relation to the author's body of scholarly work. New for this edition: An extensive Afterword, 'Emotions and Their Objects' which situates the book in relation to the emergent field of affect studies, as well as in relation to the author's body of scholarly work A revised Bibliography Updated throughout.

Contents:

Introduction: Feel Your Way

CHAPTER 1 The Contingency of Pain

CHAPTER 2 The Organisation of Hate

CHAPTER 3 The Affective Politics of Fear

CHAPTER 4 The Performativity of Disgust

CHAPTER 5 Shame Before Others

CHAPTER 6 In the Name of Love

CHAPTER 7 Queer Feelings

CHAPTER 8 Feminist Attachments

Conclusion: Just Emotions

Afterword: Emotions and Their Objects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748691146 : (ebk : Ebookcentral)

9780748691142 : (ebk : Ebookcentral)

9781322059709

OCLC:

1076648535