Settling space and covering the nation: Some conceptual considerations in analysing affect and discourse

Wetherell, Margaret; McCreanor, Tim; McConville, Alex; Barnes, Helen Moewaka; Grice, Jade Le

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2015.07.005

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“…The article by Merriman and Jones (2016) is the latest contribution to a growing literature on the affective dimension of nations (Closs Stephens, 2016;Militz & Schurr, 2015;Wetherell et al 2015).…”

Section: Marco Antonsich and Michael Skey Loughborough Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective nationalism

Antonsich

Skey

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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Section: Marco Antonsich and Michael Skey Loughborough Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective nationalism

Antonsich

Skey

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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“…We suggest that affect becomes patterned through practice into sometimes highly invested and disturbing, but reasonably ordered forms. We have a particular interest in what we call the ‘emotion canons’ of national commemoration – that is the hegemonic, taken for granted, ‘practiced’ modes of embodied being which are pervasive and which form emotional standards for understanding and accounting for one's response to events (McConville et al ; Wetherell et al ).…”

Section: Affect and Commemorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our project used author videography to create what Sumartojo and Pink () have referred to as a ‘trace through the world’, through which the analytic process can work interactively with the ethnographer's feelings, memory and knowledge, to produce an account of experience. ‘Wide angle’ video of each event was produced with a particular understanding that the researcher was a ‘sensing device’, part of the ‘apparatus’ for developing critical affective–discursive analyses (McCreanor et al ; Wetherell et al ) of choreographed commemoration. We acknowledge the subjectivity of the auto‐ethnographer and treat it as central to our topic – the ways that event assemblage, calls to emote and discourse entwine in his affect and in his interpretations of events.…”

Section: The Research Processmentioning

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New light; friendly soil: affective–discursive dimensions of Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand

McCreanor

Wetherell

McConville

et al. 2018

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper investigates affective–discursive dimensions of nation‐building via commemorations of nationhood within Aotearoa New Zealand to ask about how these assemblages construct feeling trajectories for citizen participants. We report auto‐ethnographic analyses of participation in specific Anzac Day war remembrance events that occurred in the capital city Wellington. Analyses point to the ways in which engagement in the choreographies of commemoration constructs varied emotion‐laden subject positions for participants and how these psycho‐social differences index and evoke contrasting memorial politics. We conclude that while the differences in affective ambience at different events may prompt citizens towards nationalistic or more conciliatory identity politics, the ceremonies create space for participants to feel and enact diverse affective practices.

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“…This area focuses on "the established, immediately familiar and orthodox procedures for emoting and making sense" (2015, p. 60). Similar to Wetherell et al (2015), we see these affective-discursive threads as recurring ways of talking and feeling about the matters in question.…”

Section: Ethnographic Fieldwork: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

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“…The ethnographic specificities of emotional threads (cf. Wetherell, 2012;Wetherell et al, 2015) in the legitimation of children's music are laid out in the following paragraphs.…”

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“This one Grandma knew, too, exactly this one!” Processes of Canonization in Children’s Music

Vestad¹,

Dyndahl²

2017

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Processes of musical canonization occur at different levels of culture and society. People have a strong propensity to categorize, differentiate, and evaluate the music that is important to them, and music is ascribed value in action by people in real-life settings. Based in these premises, the article discusses two questions: First, how does the idea of a canon of children's music influence the daily musical activities and repertoires used in children's day care facilities and family homes? Second, in what ways is music legitimized in the everyday lives of children? Our data is collected by observation and interviews conducted in two pedagogical day care facilities and nine family homes. Children, day care staff and parents participated in the study. We find that a discussion of canonization in children's music along the following four paths of legitimation is meaningful: the "good, old stuff," the need for renewal, the inclusion of other types of music other than that aimed at a child audience, and the need for a wide array of genres and sentiments. Finally, we argue that although the legitimation and canonization in children's music obviously involve considerations of musical aspects, separating these canonization processes from the prevailing socio-cultural ideas of childhood and children's best interest is impossible.

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Settling space and covering the nation: Some conceptual considerations in analysing affect and discourse

Cited by 113 publications

References 27 publications

Affective nationalism

Affective nationalism

New light; friendly soil: affective–discursive dimensions of Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand

“This one Grandma knew, too, exactly this one!” Processes of Canonization in Children’s Music

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