Discourse and Emotions in International Relations

Koschut, Simon; Hall, Todd H.; Wolf, Reinhard; Solomon, Ty; Hutchison, Emma; Bleiker, Roland

doi:10.1093/isr/vix033

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“…Second, we locate our argument within Lacanian psychoanalytical approaches to politics and IR (Arfi, ; Hook, ; Rogers & Zevnik, ; Solomon, ). Third, we relate to the affects/emotions work on world politics (Bleiker & Hutchison, ; Hutchison & Bleiker, ; Koschut et al, ; Ilgit & Prakash, ; Pace & Bilgic, ). Our Lacanian framework adopts a middle position on the continuum between the cognitively and culturally oriented work on emotions and the focus on the nonrepresentational and the bodily that characterizes the affect scholarship.…”

Section: Narrative Discourse and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By defining and conceptualizing these sticking points, we develop a methodology, which overlaps with those provided in the literature on emotions in IR. Koschut's work (; Koschut et al, ) is particularly helpful in this respect, as he extends the discourse‐analytical principle of intertextuality also to emotions, arguing that “[e]motions often relate to similar emotions expressed in other culture‐specific and/or historical discourse and narratives” (Koschut et al, , p. 485). Koschut further differentiates between the microfocus on interpreting emotions and the macroattitude of contextualizing them in broader discourses (Koschut, ; Koschut et al, ).…”

Section: Narrative Discourse and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”

Eberle

Daniel

2019

Political Psychology

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Using the case of the Czech narrative on "Russian hybrid warfare" (RHW), this article contributes to the broader question of why narratives succeed. Building on Lacanian psychoanalysis, narrative scholarship, and affect/emotions research in International Relations, we suggest that narrative success is facilitated also by two interrelated factors: embedding in broader cultural contexts and the ability to incorporate and reproduce collectively circulating affects. We develop a methodological framework for encircling unobservable affects within discourse via "sticking points"-linguistic phenomena infused with affective investment. We outline three categories of sticking points-valued signifiers, fantasies, and biographical narratives. Utilizing the approach in our case study, we focus on a narrative based around the notion that Russia waged a "hybrid war" against "the West" and that this should be faced with quasi-military measures, which was successful in changing the language of Czech national security. We show that this narrative incorporated a range of sticking points, which contributed to its relative success. It utilized valued signifiers, such as "the West," "the Kremlin," "agents," and "occupation," weaved them together into a fantasy of a threat to the nation's "Western" identity, and intertwined this with the biographical narratives of history as a lens for world politics and East/West geopolitics.

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Section: Narrative Discourse and Affectmentioning

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Section: Narrative Discourse and Affectmentioning

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“Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”

Eberle

Daniel

2019

Political Psychology

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“…Against this backdrop, at least two basic research strategies offer tools useful for the empirical study of the strategic use of political emotions: temporal comparisons and comparisons between different political contexts (e.g., comparison across domestic and international fora, cross‐country‐ or cross‐sectoral comparisons). A temporal comparison allows for the study of change and continuity of emotional appeals over time, where any identified changes suggest reflection on behalf of the actors' making such appeals and thus the strategic usage of emotions (for further discussion, see Eroukhmanoff & Fazendeiro, ; Koschut, ). Comparisons across different political contexts allow for the study of whether (or not) political actors appeal to emotions differently in different contexts and for making claims about the strategic usage of emotions.…”

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Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

Lynggaard

2019

Political Psychology

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This introductory article to the special issue zooms in on the literature on political emotions with a specific focus on methodological questions of "how to study" political emotions. To the extent that methodological matters are addressed in the extant literature, the associated challenges are often portrayed as a clash between social science and natural science disciplines, a clash frequently illustrated by the meeting between political science and neuroscience. Rather than being a clash between academic disciplines, this article argues that many of the methodological challenges facing emotional research have their origin in scholars' diverse views on the relationship between themselves as researchers and political emotions as a research object. In the light of this acknowledgment, the article encircles and discusses the methodological challenges associated with three key conceptual distinctions between: (1) individual and collective emotions, (2) emotions and reason, and between (3) involuntary political emotions and the strategic usage of political emotions. Using the contributions to this special issue as illustrations, the article argues in favor of moving beyond mutually exclusive dichotomies regarding these conceptual distinctions and offers pathways for dealing with current methodological challenges to emotional research. It points to methodological pluralism, transparency, and context-sensitive research strategies.KEY WORDS: methodology, individual and collective emotions, emotions and reason, involuntary and strategic emotions bs_bs_banner

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“…In particular, within the last two decades, the growing literature on emotions will enable us to delve into the Arab Spring through the analysis of emotions in-depth (Crawford, 2014;Edkins, 2003;Fierke, 2013;Hutchison & Bleiker, 2014;Koschut et al, 2017;Ling, 2014;Linklater, 2014;Mercer, 2014). As Sara Ahmed clearly stresses, emotions are closely acquainted and bind individuals from different backgrounds to particular objects and to others (Ahmed, 2004;Hutchison & Bleiker, 2014, p. 123).…”

Section: Reflections Of Emotions In the Arab Spring: Tunisia And Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Considering that 'emotions in world politics' is an emerging field in the discipline of IR with open questions and gaps as Koschut (2017b, p. 1) contends, recent scholarly works paved the way for new analyses of emotions (Bially Mattern, 2011;Bleiker & Hutchison, 2008;Crawford, 2000;Fattah & Fierke, 2009;Hutchison, 2016;Hutchison & Bleiker, 2014;Koschut, 2017aKoschut, , 2017bKoschut et al, 2017;Solomon, 2018). It is worth to note that Crawford (2000), Mercer (2006Mercer ( , 2010, Bleiker and Hutchison (2008), Bially Mattern (2011) were among the first regarding conceptualization of emotions in world politics.…”

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The role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in light of repertoires

Coşkun

2019

Globalizations

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This article examines the role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in the context of collective level emotions in mobilizations. Emotions are understood as a catalyst whose mechanism of action is performed through repertories. This article seeks to answer how emotions, having a triggering role, are performed through repertoires while accelerating mobilization against authoritarian orders, creating the intersection of individual and collective level emotions in public spheres of Tunisia and Egypt, and thus affecting the transnational diffusion of emotions. The significant reason to address emotions is to explain what stimulated the Arab Spring and how it spread over the region starting from Tunisia and Egypt. This article synthesizes two literatures: International Relations (IR) and social movements studies in light of emotions and components of repertoires which are as follows: collective action, collective identity, symbolic politics, network society and information politics.

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Discourse and Emotions in International Relations

Cited by 91 publications

References 37 publications

“Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”

“Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”

Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

The role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in light of repertoires

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