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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... rational- istic , structural , and organizational models that dominate academic polit- ical analysis . Social scientists portray humans as rational and instrumen- tal , traits which are oddly assumed to preclude any emotions . Even the ...
... rational- istic , structural , and organizational models that dominate academic polit- ical analysis . Social scientists portray humans as rational and instrumen- tal , traits which are oddly assumed to preclude any emotions . Even the ...
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... rational action " ( 1978 [ 1922 ] : 6 ) . This places emotional action in a similar category as " traditional " action , in a gray zone " between mean- ingful and merely reactive behavior . " Of course , Weber recognized the possibility ...
... rational action " ( 1978 [ 1922 ] : 6 ) . This places emotional action in a similar category as " traditional " action , in a gray zone " between mean- ingful and merely reactive behavior . " Of course , Weber recognized the possibility ...
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... rationally pursuing their material interests . For Marxists , the interesting questions had more to do with how to succeed ... rational and emotional ; emotions were a useful strategic factor ( which organizers could manipulate without ...
... rationally pursuing their material interests . For Marxists , the interesting questions had more to do with how to succeed ... rational and emotional ; emotions were a useful strategic factor ( which organizers could manipulate without ...
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... rational interests . But in the absence of empirical investigation , what Gustave Le Bon thought he saw in crowds in 1895 or Eric Hoffer believed he saw in political extremism in 1951 was more a projection of their own fears and ...
... rational interests . But in the absence of empirical investigation , what Gustave Le Bon thought he saw in crowds in 1895 or Eric Hoffer believed he saw in political extremism in 1951 was more a projection of their own fears and ...
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... rational protestors as devoid of emotions . Since the end of the 1960s , accordingly , emotions have played almost no role in theories of social movements and collective action . Just as scholars coming of age in the 1970s attacked ...
... rational protestors as devoid of emotions . Since the end of the 1960s , accordingly , emotions have played almost no role in theories of social movements and collective action . Just as scholars coming of age in the 1970s attacked ...
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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