Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-bja10046
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
Abstract This essay draws both on the history of emotions and on celebrity studies to analyse the more than two hundred lectures given by Gustave Lambert, a would-be polar explorer, between 1866 and 1870. These lectures are examined through the press coverage they provoked in various French periodicals and, secondarily, through correspondence. The article argues that Arlie Hochschild’s concept of emotional work is relevant to the analysis of Lambert’s lecturing and its effects both on his audiences and on himself.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-bja10044
Stephanie Rutherford, Victoria Shea, Chris Pearson
Abstract This essay suggests that culling campaigns against canids in postwar Canada have striking affective dimensions. Drawing on examples of canid management in the 1950s and 60s from Nunavik, Alberta, and Ontario, we contend that the killing of supposedly rabid dogs and wild canids was predominantly about affective excess and emotional management. The wildness of these animals was perceived to lead to excessive nonhuman affectivity, which was seemingly exacerbated by rabies. Human encounters with these animals were characterised by excessive affective responses, a result of long-standing fears of rabies, anxieties about northernness and assertions of ‘civilisation’ in the context of settler colonialism. This fear was then channelled into round ups and killings of canids. The killing was what Monique Scheer calls an ‘emotional practice’ designed to soothe anxieties, to cleanse and to civilise. Drawing on archival and other documentary sources, we aim to show the value in exploring more fully the intersections between affect and animal histories.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-bja10045
Corey Lee Wrenn
Abstract Sociologists James Jasper and Jane Poulsen have argued that activists’ deployment of emotionally triggering ‘moral shocks’ can stimulate recruitment for movements, particularly for those which are less successful in recruiting through social networks. Others have suggested that, more than a recruitment tool, these moral shocks are useful for sustaining activist motivation. This study, however, explores the tendency of activists to disengage from moral shocks as a means of managing emotions such as compassion fatigue, burnout and psychological distress. Although many respondents see the utility in moral shocks as an outreach tool, they carefully consider their own exposure to protect their emotional well-being and protest sustainability. Results are based on an email-based qualitative interview with twenty-five newly recruited activists and established activists in the Western Nonhuman Animal rights movement.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-bja10043
Javier Sadarangani
Although Chilean independence has been the focus of much historiographical attention, the study of political emotions is still a pending issue. This essay aims to understand the experience and the role of love, zeal and patriotism during the Chilean independence process between 1808 and 1823. By studying these expressions and their associated practices, the essay argues that love, zeal and patriotism were used to imagine and design the characteristics of the desired political subject, which was conceived as playing a fundamental role in the success of the political project aimed to be established. To this end, the essay will make use of a variety of documentation from the period, but taking as a core document the epistolary of Bernardo O’Higgins, one of the most important figures of the Chilean emancipation process, and of the Southern Cone.
虽然智利独立一直是许多史学关注的焦点,但政治情绪的研究仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。本文旨在了解在1808年至1823年智利独立过程中,爱、热情和爱国主义的经历和作用。通过研究这些表达及其相关实践,本文认为,爱、热情和爱国主义被用来想象和设计所期望的政治主体的特征,这些特征被认为在旨在建立的政治项目的成功中起着根本性的作用。为此,本文将利用这一时期的各种文献,但以智利解放过程中最重要的人物之一Bernardo O 'Higgins的书信为核心文件,以及南锥体。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010185
A. Bernau
This essay considers the iconic English hedgerow in light of its history as material, made object and its ontological status as vital ecology. It argues that both of these aspects are associated with particular ‘aesthetics of care’, which are entwined with one another in inextricable, and often agonistic, ways. Central to this argument are the interrelated aspects of the hedge understood as commodity or property, its role in materialising property relations, and the hedge’s own living ‘properties’. Caring for the hedge; the hedge as expression of care for the property that is demarcated and secured through it (and the ecological and social relations that ensue); caring with hedges as the needs of multispecies living need to be addressed – all of these are at stake, and care in these different relations is rooted in histories of suffering (physical as well as emotional cares) and histories of care as a form of disposition marked by attentiveness and effort. Both ‘property’ and ‘properties’ are deeply embedded in systems and stories of ownership, place and land use; both are coming under increasing pressure in the midst of climate crisis, which demands new forms of multispecies, multitemporal care.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010196
Marika Sardar
{"title":"Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture, edited by Rizvi, Kishwar","authors":"Marika Sardar","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29950,"journal":{"name":"Emotions-History Culture Society","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84607760","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 : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010183
S. Trigg, A. Welch
{"title":"Objects, Material Culture and the History of Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe","authors":"S. Trigg, A. Welch","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29950,"journal":{"name":"Emotions-History Culture Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82735480","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 : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010184
S. Downes, S. Trigg
Drawing on the work of Sianne Ngai in Ugly Feelings (2005), in this essay we focus on two examples from early fifteenth-century medieval literature that represent medieval books as ‘ugly’ either because they arouse negative feelings of aversion or disgust or because they are considered in some way aesthetically lacking or inadequate. Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames and Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe present women’s involvement with troubling or difficult books. The ‘ugly book feelings’ which both narrators encounter challenge not only their authority as writers, but their very sense of self. Such feelings, however, are transitory when placed in narrative context: in the two examples we discuss, a single material text serves as the catalyst for a moment of emotional transformation which may be spiritual and/or intellectual. Attending to literary representations of ugly book feelings, we argue, complements existing scholarship on late medieval women’s relationship to material textual culture by placing such feelings at the centre of a broad emotional spectrum.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010192
Eduardo Olid Guerrero
{"title":"Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean, written by Johnson, Paul Michael","authors":"Eduardo Olid Guerrero","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29950,"journal":{"name":"Emotions-History Culture Society","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76587954","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 : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-02010194
Yanjin Liu
{"title":"Exploring the Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters, edited by Petrilli, Susan, and Meng Ji","authors":"Yanjin Liu","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29950,"journal":{"name":"Emotions-History Culture Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74138800","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}