Affecting Argumentative Action: The Temporality of Decisive Emotion

Lantz, Prins Marcus Valiant

doi:10.1007/s10503-021-09546-2

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“…The concept of outcome spans the objective and subjective realms, denoting how the imagined object of action would affect both the actor and the surrounding world. Thinking about future outcomes of present action choices brings future emotion to the present as anticipated feelings (Helm, 2009;Lantz, 2021). These anticipated emotions are, as argued by Helm (2009) and Holmes (2010), integral to discriminating between better or worse courses of action (see also Dewey, 2008); for example, inviting best friends to a dinner involves anticipated emotions of joy and pleasure but may also spark anticipated emotions of guilt regarding friends who are not invited.…”

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Emotionalising hope in times of climate change

Wettergren

2024

Emotions and Society

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The aim is to theorise hope from a sociology of emotion perspective and propose a general framework for the analysis of discrete emotions – the emotive-cognitive chain of evaluation – that can be applied by analysing different types of hope. Hope is defined as the emotion of future possibility, distinct from self-confidence, faith and trust. Hope as a foreground emotion, subject to emotive-cognitive evaluation, arises in a bad present (target) as an outcome of past failed hopes. The object of hope is future improvement. Given limited agency in fundamentally uncertain circumstances, an external source of hope is located. Background import informs the assessment of the present as bad, what improvement to hope for (object) and the identification of sources. I argue that fear is a companion emotion of hope, and that a reasonable balance between hope and fear can make hope more in tune with real circumstances. Elaborating on the action continuum of hope, I propose that hope is never truly passive and that action itself generates hope. As a collective emotion, hope becomes collectively evaluated and mutually supported in a responsive social context. Responsive hope may, however, also be delusional. Different hope constructs are illustrated, drawing on findings in a project on the post-apocalyptic environmental movement. Theorising hope in the context of the climate crisis highlights the specific quality of hope as an emotion of future possibility and the significance of hope for present action and future object outcomes, its potential for social change and how we collectively create the future.

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Emotionalising hope in times of climate change

Wettergren

2024

Emotions and Society

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The Social Psychology of Framing: The Emotional Content of Finnish Anti-Wind Power Frames

Husu

2023

Sociological Research Online

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Protests against wind power have become increasingly common in Western countries and in Finland. This article explores various anti-wind farm frames and their emotional dynamics and content. The framing approach highlights cognitive and constructive rather than emotional aspects. However, social-psychological understanding of emotions enables us to recognise those types of emotions that give content to a specific frame and are essential to understanding individual motivations for building frames and joining protests. This article points out three anti-wind farm frames: Nimby (love, feelings of security, fear of disruption, and anger); populist (experience of helplessness, fear, grief and anger); and environmentalist (concern and respect). The frames reveal how online activisms oriented towards the same cause and goal arise from multiple emotional contents, indicating the actors’ concerns over the effects of wind turbines on their own well-being and reflecting their own different positions.

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Domestic fear beyond traumatic terror: understanding mothers’ everyday experiences of recurring fear in the context of domestic violence

Moussion-Esteve

2022

Emotions and Society

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This article offers an empirical critique of trauma-informed fear models by documenting how mothers experienced repetitive fear of domestic violence in France. I challenge the reduction of victims’ responses to traumatic ‘terror’ and suggest that the neurological fear models which circulate in training and advocacy discourses fail to acknowledge the domestic setting and the resources on which they draw to respond to fear. Analysing ethnographic data, the article adopts a structural theory of emotion and domestic violence. I draw on Jack Barbalet’s notion of fear containment and rework his model by applying it to non-elite and individual mothers through what I call ‘instrumental’ counterchallenge and submissiveness. I show that their fear practices are combined with fear containment. The article analyses fear as an occasion for knowledge acquisition and an auxiliary for instrumental action. The article highlights the hidden fear responses that go unnoticed when analysis prominently relies on neurological trauma: mothers act on their fears to confirm or overrule fearful anticipations and they experience fear as an occasion for knowledge acquisition to guide future action.

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Affecting Argumentative Action: The Temporality of Decisive Emotion

Cited by 3 publications

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Emotionalising hope in times of climate change

Emotionalising hope in times of climate change

The Social Psychology of Framing: The Emotional Content of Finnish Anti-Wind Power Frames

Domestic fear beyond traumatic terror: understanding mothers’ everyday experiences of recurring fear in the context of domestic violence

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