Into the 21st century

On emotionalisation of public domains

“…The latter examines emotions themselves as material, cognitive or social entities and practices transforming in history, shaped by its configurations (Reddy, 2001;Scheer 2012), and more specifically, by the contemporary cultural condition of overwhelming emotionality of contemporary cultural life (McCarthy, 2017). This remarkable debate over the nature and cultural work of emotions in individual and collective life encourages the broad study of feelings beyond the niche of mainstream social and cultural studies, resulting in burgeoning and cutting-edge academic research with increasing venues for intellectual exchange (Holmes et al, 2019;2020). Perhaps the vibrant scholarly preoccupation with emotionality, whether through critical or normative perspectives, could itself be seen as part of the emotionalisation trend (See for ex.…”

Psicología Social de las Emociones: Breve panorama del giro visual y del giro digital

“…La participación ha estado caracterizada por un apego emocional basado en la confianza en lo colectivo y en su acción conjunta. Estas investigaciones representan una nueva generación de académicos y activistas que reconocen el papel de las emociones en la política porque lo han vivido y sentido (Holmes, Manning y Wettergren, 2019). De esta manera, se han creado nuevos lazos entre ciudadanos y académicos que compartieron las mismas emociones.…”

‘Being there’: emotional memories, gatherings of the Emotions Research Network and happy birthdays

“…In March 2023 it was the journal's fifth birthday. The journal's long ten-year gestation (see Holmes et al, 2019) perhaps makes us feel particularly happy to have got to this point. So, someone write us an article about happy birthdays.…”