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Author Hutchison, Emma, 1980- author.

Title Affective communities in world politics : collective emotions after trauma / Emma Hutchison, the University of Queensland.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Cambridge Studies in International Relations ; 140
Cambridge studies in international relations ; 140.
Summary Emotions underpin how political communities are formed and function. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in times of trauma. The emotions associated with suffering caused by war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty can play a pivotal role in shaping communities and orientating their politics. This book investigates how 'affective communities' emerge after trauma. Drawing on several case studies and an unusually broad set of interdisciplinary sources, it examines the role played by representations, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches. Representations of traumatic events are crucial because they generate socially embedded emotional meanings which, in turn, enable direct victims and distant witnesses to share the injury, as well as the associated loss, in a manner that affirms a particular notion of collective identity. While ensuing political orders often re-establish old patterns, traumatic events can also generate new 'emotional cultures' that genuinely transform national and transnational communities.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. Trauma and political community; 2. Theorizing political emotions; 3. Representing trauma and collectivizing emotions; Part II. The Emotional Constitution of Political Community: 4. Emotions and national community; 5. Emotions and transnational community; 6. Trauma, grief and political transformation; Conclusion. Affective communities and emotional cultures in international relations.
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Subject Political psychology.
Political psychology.
Emotions -- Political aspects.
Emotions -- Political aspects.
Emotions.
Psychic trauma -- Political aspects.
Psychic trauma.
Group identity -- Political aspects.
International relations -- Psychological aspects.
International relations -- Psychological aspects.
Group identity -- Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Group identity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Genre/Form Ebook.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781107095014 1107095018 (DLC) 2015042957 (OCoLC)930258185
ISBN 9781316154670 (electronic book)
131615467X (electronic book)
9781316549520 (electronic book)
1316549526 (electronic book)
9781107095014 (hardback)
1107095018 (hardback)
9781107477728 (paperback)