Pub Date : 2024-01-12DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000013
Poul Poder
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Pub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000010
Alessandra Minissale
Narratives are powerful emotional devices. They can trigger our curiosity and make us suspicious, compassionate, empathic or even horrified. In this article, I focus on how Italian judges and prosecutors navigate their gut feelings evoked by written and oral narratives told by witnesses, defendants and victims in criminal cases. Fieldwork included observations of hearings and deliberations, shadowing and interviews with judges and prosecutors, and collection of written judgments. The article shows that gut feelings are experienced as intuitive knowledge – when judges and prosecutors feel they know ‘in their heart’ or ‘inside them’ the ‘true story’ of the crime, but they also contrast this type of knowledge with the ‘objective story’ based on the evidence available in a case. The analysis indicates two main emotional practices used to manage gut feelings. First, legal encoding – the translation of lay narratives into legal categories – constitutes an emotion management strategy that legal professionals can use, individually or collectively, to distance their gut feelings, restricting interest to aspects of the story validated by the evidence. Second, gut feelings can be endorsed, rather than constricted, when they generate suspicion that something ‘hidden’ has to be found out, or curiosity of knowing more about the story than what is strictly relevant under the legal frame. Gut feelings and curiosity mostly emerged in relation to the motive behind murder cases. By showing how legal professionals use their gut feelings, the article contributes to reinforcing an understanding of emotions and emotional reflexivity as necessary for rational decisions.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000011
Nicolás Arenas
{"title":"The Emotional Life of Populism by Eva Illouz (with Avital Sicron) (2023)","authors":"Nicolás Arenas","doi":"10.1332/26316897y2023d000000011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897y2023d000000011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29742,"journal":{"name":"Emotions and Society","volume":"17 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138943676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000008
Emma Laurin
Building on interviews with 31 Swedish mothers and drawing on the concepts of emotion work, feeling rules, and cultural, economic and social capital, the article examines the emotion management mothers of neurodivergent and school-absent children carry out as they navigate school and care systems to improve their children’s situation. Three main findings are presented: (1) the mothers were left with a burdensome individual responsibility to obtain support for their children in the education and care sectors, and while doing so, they were expected to follow feeling rules emphasising reason, calmness and a constructive attitude; (2) the emotion work the mothers carried out in relation to the feeling rules was underscored by mother blame; and (3) the mothers’ emotion work was marked by their cultural, economic and social capital, though not always in a straightforward way. The article contributes to research on mother blame by illuminating the underexplored issue of emotion work among mothers experiencing mother blame. The results also add to previous research on mother blame and social class by demonstrating when and how mothers’ cultural, economic and social capital helps them fend off mother blame and when such resources play a more ambiguous role.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000009
Rishiraj Sen
"Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy by Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos and Lorenzo Zamponi (2022)" published on 10 Nov 2023 by Bristol University Press.
《抵制反弹:意大利街头抗议》，作者:Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos and Lorenzo Zamponi(2022)，布里斯托尔大学出版社于2023年11月10日出版。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000002
Anna Berg
Previous research on the consumption of misinformation tends to understand emotions as reactions to content that reside within the individual. What is missing from this research, however, is a closer look at the infrastructures that mediate individuals’ encounters with content. Because of this gap, there has often been insufficient analysis of how today’s information environment, and in particular the materiality of digital information infrastructures, lead users to engage with content. Based on a relational understanding of emotions inspired by affect theory, this article proposes the concept of information enthusiasm to describe specific emotional connections between users and information infrastructures. Drawing from interviews with 28 users of German alternative news sites that disseminate misinformation, disinformation, and hyper-partisan news content, I illustratively analyze a couple of these emotional connections, and show how they in turn influence users’ engagement with content. Overall, this article extends the prevailing understanding of emotions and misinformation, arguing that emotions not only influence individual judgment, but can also bind users to alternative news infrastructures leading them to actively seek out, embrace, and endorse misinformation.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000004
Anna Durnová, Daniel Karell
In a world of multiple crises – the heating of the planet, public health emergencies, economic meltdowns, sociopolitical polarisation and so on – truth is often politicised and then weaponised for political gain. This ‘post-truth’ rhetoric currently seems so prevalent that many of us now avoid debating reasonable questions about politics, policy and society. The rhetoric has also led to increasing questions about the role and importance of expertise (Felt et al, 2007; Weible and Satabier, 2009), greater attention paid to authorities’ ideologies, uncertainty, contradictions and mistakes (Durnová, 2019), and sometimes heated arguments about how evidence and ‘truth’ should be used to guide governments and social policy (Torgerson, 2010). The politicisation and weaponisation of truth have additionally rejuvenated portrayals of emotions and reason as opposing forces (Alexander, 2013), constructing a societal division between a purportedly emotional or ignorant public and a supposedly fact-oriented elite (Durnová, 2019). In this way, weaponised truth is both a result and cause of contentious politics. This dynamic is evinced in the discourses of posttruth phenomena, such as the Brexit vote, clashes between liberal cosmopolitanism and socially conservative values, and anti-covid protests. Yet, going beyond this recursive dynamic, the tension between emotions and reason may also be generative of politics, including cultivating and bolstering democratic politics. That is, while the division between masses and elites based on emotions and ‘true’ knowledge appears to threaten social cohesion and the mutual
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000005
Allegra H. Fullerton
{"title":"Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics: Negotiating Truth by Anna Durnová (2019)","authors":"Allegra H. Fullerton","doi":"10.1332/26316897y2023d000000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897y2023d000000005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29742,"journal":{"name":"Emotions and Society","volume":"179 37","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000007
Moran M. Mandelbaum
{"title":"Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War by Jakub Eberle (2019)","authors":"Moran M. Mandelbaum","doi":"10.1332/26316897y2023d000000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897y2023d000000007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29742,"journal":{"name":"Emotions and Society","volume":"14 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135112149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000006
Hannes Lagerlöf, Jane Pettersson
To site repositories for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste, nuclear waste management (NWM) actors need public support. In the past, NWM actors have tried to build public support by conveying what they believe are the ‘objective facts’ of repository technologies, hence countering public prejudices and fears on the subject. Thus, while the public has been represented as emotional by implementers, implementers have portrayed themselves as guided by mere unemotional reason, facts and ‘truth’. Faced with continued public opposition, however, implementers have now adopted a different approach that explicitly addresses public emotions. In this article, we explore contemporary siting policy as a case of ‘discursive projection’ of public emotions – that is, not as a ‘true’ account of public emotions but rather as indicative of implementers’ understanding of public emotions, of that which is rational, and that which is not. In the analysis, we understand policy as an ‘emotion regime’ that establishes which feelings are compatible – and which are not – with the ‘truth’ of repositories for spent nuclear fuel. Understanding the relation between emotions and reason from an emotional-sociological perspective, we show how the emotion regime in policy has been transformed from being a clear-cut case of the conventional approach to an at-first-glance radical understanding of the relation between rationality and emotion. The analysis shows which emotions are described as a threat to reason and which are described as aiding implementers’ reason and rationality, hence which emotions are idealised – and which are rejected.
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