L'expression des émotions et la société

Political Emotion

“…That these were all articulated and recorded in observation diaries suggests that these emotions were collective, that they had a social nature, 18 and that they were a result of shared conscious and emotional work. 19 With the movement's development and the growth in awareness that a rapid transformation of the system would not succeed, the protesters began to talk about their "hatred" of government leaders, "sadness," "despair," "apathy," and "unfulfilled hopes."…”

‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [. . .] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?

“…When taking the power divides between dominant and marginalised pasts into account, paralleling the Holocaust to evoke sympathy is not as self-evidently helpful or effective as Miles suggested. According to the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1947), only those pasts that can be experienced emotionally will be relevant for societies. Conversely, this means that pasts without an emotional attribution are not 'rememberable' (Halbwachs, 1947).…”

“…According to the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1947), only those pasts that can be experienced emotionally will be relevant for societies. Conversely, this means that pasts without an emotional attribution are not 'rememberable' (Halbwachs, 1947). Ann Laura Stoler (2009), whose work echoes Michel Foucault's concept of power-knowledge, argues that the harnessing of emotions is a part of the rationale of state powers and consequently a technique to govern.…”

Love at the Time of Independence

“…), which is also necessary in order to love oneself. It is as if we were looking at two concepts of the theory of affect competing with each other: the Halbwachsian concept (all emotions are regulated by social norms, and we carry society within us; see Halbwachs and Granger 2014), and a more Massumi-Deluzian concept (affects are those impulses that break the structure and are uncontrollable, irrational, and illogical: see Massumi 2015).…”