Anxiety and the biographical Gestalt of political leaders

Berenskötter, Felix

doi:10.1057/s41268-021-00225-z

J Int Relat Dev

2021

DOI: 10.1057/s41268-021-00225-z

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Anxiety and the biographical Gestalt of political leaders

Felix Berenskötter

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“…Rumelili's intervention (2021) taking cues from existentialist thought, expands our understanding of anxiety as a recurring public mood along with its effects on international relations. Her essay, followed by highly engaged responses by Berenskötter (2021), Gustafsson (2021), Steele (2021) and Zevnik (2021), give us a theoretical grounding to process the different implications of our age of anxiety.…”

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Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety

Subotić

Ejdus

2021

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This symposium is a follow-up to the 2019 CEEISA/ISA conference ‘International Relations in the Age of Anxiety’ held at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in June 2019. The central piece in the symposium is the keynote address by Bahar Rumelili on the untapped potential of existentialism in IR followed by highly engaged responses by Felix Berenskötter, Karl Gustafsson, Brent Steele and Andreja Zevnik. In this introduction we first describe the context in which we organised the conference and our motivations to choose the topic of the age of anxiety. We also reflect on how the global pandemic, which erupted in January 2020, made our topic more relevant than ever before. We then briefly introduce each piece and discuss what we see as the key questions they raise.

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Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety

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Ejdus

2021

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Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders

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Keep Calm and Carry on? Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown

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International Political Sociology

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On September 8, 2022, after more than 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The responses among the public, media, and state institutions to the news were varied, with competing views on the role of the monarchy and the legacy of the queen. The questions this article seeks to answer are (1) how the monarch’s death introduced a fissure into the United Kingdom’s autobiographical narrative and (2) how exactly this moment led on the one hand to efforts to reaffirm the dominant UK autobiographical narrative and on the other to efforts to contest this narrative. In framing this analysis using Gestalt psychology, we theorize the role of perception in subjects’ experience of a fissure as well as their subsequent attempts to manage the ensuing anxieties. We show how perception enables and guides avenues for narrative contestation as well as conservative attempts to (re)establish the predominant autobiographical narrative by exploring how the government and the royal family sought to create a sense of continuity and transfer royal authority onto the next generation while activists attempted to subvert this established narrative to problematize the country’s (post)colonial history and societal inequalities.

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Anxiety and the biographical Gestalt of political leaders

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety

Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety

Energy Security Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region: Competing Visions of Technopolitical Orders

Keep Calm and Carry on? Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown

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