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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... Protest . Francesca Polletta is associ- ate professor of sociology at Columbia University , and the author of Free- dom Is an Endless Meeting : Democracy in American Social Movements ( forthcoming ) . The University of Chicago Press ...
... Protest . Francesca Polletta is associ- ate professor of sociology at Columbia University , and the author of Free- dom Is an Endless Meeting : Democracy in American Social Movements ( forthcoming ) . The University of Chicago Press ...
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... protest seemed like a way to develop a more multifaceted image of political actors , with a broader range of goals and motivations , tastes and styles , pains and pleasures , than were commonly recognized in the academic literature ...
... protest seemed like a way to develop a more multifaceted image of political actors , with a broader range of goals and motivations , tastes and styles , pains and pleasures , than were commonly recognized in the academic literature ...
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... protest . Emotions , properly understood , may prove once again to be a central concern of political analysis . Max Weber , more than anyone , set social scientists down the road of associating emotions with irrationality . Unlike ...
... protest . Emotions , properly understood , may prove once again to be a central concern of political analysis . Max Weber , more than anyone , set social scientists down the road of associating emotions with irrationality . Unlike ...
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... protest hardly mattered . Fears of fas- cism and communism only exacerbated these dismissive tendencies in the 1950s . Even the social movements of the 1960s did not always arouse sym- pathy , as they could be dismissed as the work of ...
... protest hardly mattered . Fears of fas- cism and communism only exacerbated these dismissive tendencies in the 1950s . Even the social movements of the 1960s did not always arouse sym- pathy , as they could be dismissed as the work of ...
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... protest was flawed in many ways . In one tradition , emotions came di- rectly from crowds , having little to do with individuals ' own lives and goals . They appeared and disappeared in response to what was happening in one's immediate ...
... protest was flawed in many ways . In one tradition , emotions came di- rectly from crowds , having little to do with individuals ' own lives and goals . They appeared and disappeared in response to what was happening in one's immediate ...
Contents
IV | 27 |
V | 45 |
VI | 58 |
VII | 74 |
VIII | 81 |
IX | 83 |
XI | 99 |
XII | 113 |
XIX | 193 |
XXI | 210 |
XXIII | 229 |
XXIV | 231 |
XXV | 249 |
XXVII | 265 |
XXVIII | 280 |
XXX | 301 |
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