Introduction: Interrogating the 'everyday' politics of emotions in international relations

Abstract

The focus on the everyday in this Special Issue reveals different kinds of emotional practices, their political effects and their political contestation within both micro- and macro-politics in international relations. The articles in this Special Issue address the everyday negotiation of emotions, shifting between the reproduction of hegemonic structures of feelings and emancipation from them. In other words, the everyday politics of emotions allows an exploration of who gets to express emotions, what emotions are perceived as (il)legitimate or (un)desirable, how emotions are circulated and under what circumstances. Consequently, we identify two thematic strands which emerge as central to an interrogation of ‘everyday’ emotions in international relations and which run through each of the contributions: first, an exploration of the relationship between individual and collective emotions and, second, a focus on the role of embodiment within emotions research and its relationship with the dynamics and structures of power.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088219830428
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Politics, History and International Relations
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Aston Centre for Europe
Additional Information: © Sage 2019. The final publication is available via Sage at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1755088219830428
Uncontrolled Keywords: Embodiment,emotions,everyday politics,levels of analysis,micro-politics,power,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Publication ISSN: 1755-0882
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 08:25
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2019 15:43
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-06-01
Published Online Date: 2019-02-21
Accepted Date: 2019-02-06
Authors: Beattie, Amanda R (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-5952-2554)
Head, Naomi
Eroukmanhoff, Clara

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