Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social MovementsJeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Francesca Polletta Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and organizational models that dominate academic political analysis. With this new collection of essays, Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger, indignation, fear, disgust, joy, and love into research on politics and social protest. The tools of cultural analysis are especially useful for probing the role of emotions in politics, the editors and contributors to Passionate Politics argue. Moral outrage, the shame of spoiled collective identities, or the joy of imagining a new and better society, are not automatic responses to events. Rather, they are related to moral institutions, felt obligations and rights, and information about expected effects, all of which are culturally and historically variable. With its look at the history of emotions in social thought, examination of the internal dynamics of protest groups, and exploration of the emotional dynamics that arise from interactions and conflicts among political factions and individuals, Passionate Politics will lead the way toward an overdue reconsideration of the role of emotions in social movements and politics generally. Contributors: Rebecca Anne Allahyari Edwin Amenta Collin Barker Mabel Berezin Craig Calhoun Randall Collins Frank Dobbin Jeff Goodwin Deborah B. Gould Julian McAllister Groves James M. Jasper Anne Kane Theodore D. Kemper Sharon Erickson Nepstad Steven Pfaff Francesca Polletta Christian Smith Arlene Stein Nancy Whittier Elisabeth Jean Wood Michael P. Young |
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... managed to ignore the swirl of passions all around them in political life. With this volume, we hope to reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger and indignation, fear 1 Introduction: Why Emotions Matter.
... managed to ignore the swirl of passions all around them in political life. With this volume, we hope to reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger and indignation, fear 1 Introduction: Why Emotions Matter.
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... anger and indignation, fear and disgust, joy and love, into research on politics and protest. Emotions, properly understood, may prove once again to be a central concern of political analysis. Max Weber, more than anyone, set social ...
... anger and indignation, fear and disgust, joy and love, into research on politics and protest. Emotions, properly understood, may prove once again to be a central concern of political analysis. Max Weber, more than anyone, set social ...
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... anger and indignation often spurred participation, a movement animated primarily by such sentiments was doomed to failure. Winning over opponents, or at least undermining public support for them, depended on conveying an image of calm ...
... anger and indignation often spurred participation, a movement animated primarily by such sentiments was doomed to failure. Winning over opponents, or at least undermining public support for them, depended on conveying an image of calm ...
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... anger. However, this line of thinking, like the Leninist and Alinskyist traditions, had little impact on academic models. The portrayal of emotions at the core of academic treatments of protest was flawed in many ways. In one tradition ...
... anger. However, this line of thinking, like the Leninist and Alinskyist traditions, had little impact on academic models. The portrayal of emotions at the core of academic treatments of protest was flawed in many ways. In one tradition ...
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... anger that puts fire in the belly and iron in the soul” (Gamson 1992: 32). Indeed, suspicion, hostility, anger, and other emotions may arise even before blame is allocated through more cognitive processes. Gamson (1992: 33) later ...
... anger that puts fire in the belly and iron in the soul” (Gamson 1992: 32). Indeed, suspicion, hostility, anger, and other emotions may arise even before blame is allocated through more cognitive processes. Gamson (1992: 33) later ...
Contents
Part Two Cultural Contexts | 81 |
Part Three Recruitment and Internal Dynamics | 133 |
Part Four The Emotions of Conflict | 231 |
Second That Emotion? Lessons from OnceNovel Concepts in Social Movement Research | 303 |
List of Contributors | 317 |
References | 321 |
Index | 353 |
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