Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions

Clément, Maéva; Sangar, Eric

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“…On the other hand, many psychologists and other researchers focussing on emotions showed the relevance of measuring them either via questionnaires or via biological measurements apparatus and observations (Nold et al, 2004; Rimé, 2005). Respondents may for example be asked to identify the level of the emotions they experienced in various contexts (Kahneman, 2000; Clément and Sangar, 2018).…”

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Challenges and Opportunities of Field-based Data Collection with a Game. Analysis of the Development and use of a Game to Collect Data on People’s Emotional Experience in their Environment

Henriet

Burnay

Dalimier

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Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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The authors developed and used a game ( Tigo-Tigo) to collect data on people’s emotional experience in their environment in an area hit by a typhoon (Philippines). With the aim of encouraging the use of games for data collection in the field, they provide an in-depth analysis of all phases of the process, from the game development to the experience of the game sessions and the quality of the data produced. Designing a data collection game is creating an immersive experience that get people to share information with the researcher. However challenging to develop as it has to meet both data gathering and game requirements, Tigo-Tigo successfully produced complex data and a positive experience. By following its simple rules, the respondents were led to formulate and share both quantitative (emotion levels) and qualitative (explanations for emotion-environment associations) data. Moreover, the game was motivating and changed the status of participation, as the researchers played with the respondents in an inversed power setting. Finally, its particular interactional structure also improved the quality of the data produced by reducing expectation as well as cultural and translation barriers encountered in the field.

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Section: Motivations To Create a Data-collection Gamementioning

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Challenges and Opportunities of Field-based Data Collection with a Game. Analysis of the Development and use of a Game to Collect Data on People’s Emotional Experience in their Environment

Henriet

Burnay

Dalimier

et al. 2020

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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“…The study of political emotions is closely associated with that of affect and feelings. The study of affect is typically reserved for research on uncontrollable, unconscious bodily reactions, whereas feelings are conscious emotions (Clément & Sangar, , pp. 4, 5).…”

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“…4, 5). Following others, I use emotions as an umbrella concept (Clément & Sangar, , pp. 4, 5; Mercer, ) allowing for the study of political emotions both as involuntary and as a potential resource for strategic political activity.…”

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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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“…Until recently, emotions were not located within the analytical realm of IR (Åhäll and Gregory, 2015; Clément and Sangar, 2018; Crawford, 2000; Hutchison and Bleiker, 2014). By and large, according to mainstream realist and critical theories, the modern nation-state was either a rational, impersonal and disembodied institutional survival tool situated within the irrationally anarchic province of the international, or the result of a capitalistic structural determination.…”

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“…Visuality and emotions have become the new fascinations of IR scholarship in the last two decades (Åhäll and Gregory, 2015; Anderson, 2011; Blanchette, 2014; Clément and Sangar, 2018; Crawford, 2000; Eken, 2016; Eroukhmanoff and Fazendeiro, 2018; Hast, 2018; Hutchison and Bleiker, 2014; Koschut, 2017; MacDonald, Hughes and Dodds 2010; Mercer, 2014; Solomon, 2015). While offering new dimensions to understand the ways in which world politics operate, they bring about new theoretical and methodological problems as well.…”

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How geopolitical becomes personal: Method acting, war films and affect

Eken

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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This article is about weaponisation of emotions through visual culture. It interrogates how geopolitics trickles down to everyday life and becomes personal through the embodiment of screen actors. While International Relations is attempting to move beyond the limits of existing disciplinary methods and methodologies to better grasp the emotional depths of world politics, this article delves into the ‘method’ in performance arts to understand how visual culture diffuses emotional narratives of the state to the population and affectively enables people to experience the international from the perspective of the United States. In this sense, focusing on ‘method acting’ which revolutionised performance arts in the United States from the 1950s, the article examines the mundane encounters in visual culture through which screen/state actors emotionally situate the audience to make them viscerally experience geopolitics, personally feel like a state/warrior and embody a commitment to the war effort at an emotional level.

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Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions

Cited by 35 publications

References 59 publications

Challenges and Opportunities of Field-based Data Collection with a Game. Analysis of the Development and use of a Game to Collect Data on People’s Emotional Experience in their Environment

Challenges and Opportunities of Field-based Data Collection with a Game. Analysis of the Development and use of a Game to Collect Data on People’s Emotional Experience in their Environment

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

How geopolitical becomes personal: Method acting, war films and affect

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