Emotions and Nationalism: A Reappraisal

Heaney, Jonathan G

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“…Emotions, for a long time, have been considered as the ‘other' of reason and put into the negative side of this dichotomy (Calhoun : 52). When we consider modernity's inclination to set binary oppositions such as reason–body, order–chaos, male–female, agent–structure, individual–society, and so on, it is not surprising that emotions have long been regarded as private and irrational categories rather than public and rational ones (Heaney ).…”

Section: Emotions and Politicsmentioning

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Reading politics through emotions: ontological ressentiment as the emotional basis of current politics in Turkey

Tokdoğan¹

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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For almost sixteen years now, politics in Turkey have been analysed with reference to the theme of victimhood. It is true that the political discourse of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP) gained its power by the mass response to its victimhood claims. Nevertheless, as this article argues, the legitimacy of the victimhood claim rests mainly on the already‐existing emotions of masses, aroused and triggered by political elites. Thus, Turkish politics during the AKP period cannot be thoroughly understood without taking into consideration the emotions of both political elites and the masses. This article shares insights into the sixteen‐year‐long AKP reign of power based on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's appeals to such emotions as humiliation, envy, disgust, hatred, anxiety, and anger. It further argues that these emotions reveal a much deeper and stronger emotional trait which we identify as ontological ressentiment.

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Section: Emotions and Politicsmentioning

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Reading politics through emotions: ontological ressentiment as the emotional basis of current politics in Turkey

Tokdoğan¹

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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“…A relational approach is thus missing. One exception is Heaney (:257), who introduces the idea of “national habitus” that amalgamates “the emotional, cognitive and symbolic” to provide a “process–relational” view of “the feeling of belonging” in the nation. Although Heaney goes one step further than do Hage and Skey in providing a dynamic account of the emotions–nationalism relationship, his analysis continues to overlook how emotions mediate everyday interactions among fellow nationals with various dispositions toward the nation.…”

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“…Yet, conceptualization of emotions remains homogeneous, linear, and nonrelational (see Heaney for an exception). This is puzzling given that the conflict‐ridden character of the nation as “a site of active political contestation between cultural communities with strikingly different belief systems” (Bonikowski :428) is by now largely a consensus among nationalism scholars.…”

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Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study

Adar

2018

Sociological Forum

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Until recently, sociologists have paid surprisingly little attention to the relationship between emotions and nationalism. Existing accounts remain homogeneous, linear and nonrelational. To remedy this gap, this article compares public controversies in Turkey over the Armenian genocide at two historical moments: its semi‐centennial anniversary in 1965, and the publication of an article in 2004 by the Armenian‐Turkish journalist Hrant Dink that led to his assassination in 2007. It demonstrates that the genocide, and the conflicting epistemic structures that it incites, is a source of anxiety for Armenians due to their actual displacement within the nation. It is also a source of anxiety for Turks due to the perceived threat of displacement within the nation. These relational anxieties over the nation played an important role, during these two events, in reproducing hierarchical and exclusionary configurations, experiences, and representations of nationhood. During the 1965 semi‐centennial, Armenians reacted to the mainstream Turkish public's anxieties by pledging their loyalty to the state. Dink's assassination in 2007, on the other hand, showcases how an attempt by the excluded to redefine the what and who of the nation united otherwise separate social sections around a nationalist front.

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“…Anderson's concept of the ‘imagined community’ encapsulates some of the processes of national identification, but confines itself to a mainly cognitive level, without examining the emotional dimensions involved ( ibid .). Emotion acts as an under‐labourer, simply taken for granted under the banner of ‘community’ (Heaney ). Anderson laid the groundwork for research to examine the role of emotion in generating a sense of belonging.…”

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Rising: Reverence, Relevance, Revelry — Commemorations of the 1916 Rising in Dublin, Easter 2016

Averill

2019

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This article describes an empirical study examining the official commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising, held in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016. Through a combination of newspaper content analysis and empirical data, this study examines the process of generating what Mabel Berezin and Rogers Brubaker have termed ‘communities of feeling’. Analysis of newspaper content between September 2014 and March 2016 highlighted four main themes: (1) a belief that Ireland would have attained sovereignty even if the 1916 Rising had not happened; (2) the equivocal stance of the government towards celebrating the 1916 Rising, which throughout the Northern Ireland troubles habitually presented difficulties for the state; (3) comparisons between commemorating the centenary in 2016 and the jubilee in 1966; and (4) reflections on the purpose of commemorations, particularly the changed emphasis on the role played by women during the Rising as well as the inclusion of religious faiths other than the Catholic Church in such commemorations. The second section of the study provides an analysis of the commemorative events and the nature of contemporary Irish nationalism based on data collected using Non‐Participant Observation. Overall, the study seeks to understand the inter‐connections between nationalism, emotions and social action in the context of Irish nationalism as portrayed during the 1916 commemorations in Dublin.

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Emotions and Nationalism: A Reappraisal

Cited by 51 publications

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Reading politics through emotions: ontological ressentiment as the emotional basis of current politics in Turkey

Reading politics through emotions: ontological ressentiment as the emotional basis of current politics in Turkey

Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study

Rising: Reverence, Relevance, Revelry — Commemorations of the 1916 Rising in Dublin, Easter 2016

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