Emotions and Time: Approaching Emotions Through a Fusion of Horizons

Eroukhmanoff, Clara; Fazendeiro, Bernardo Teles

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“…Against this backdrop, at least two basic research strategies offer tools useful for the empirical study of the strategic use of political emotions: temporal comparisons and comparisons between different political contexts (e.g., comparison across domestic and international fora, cross‐country‐ or cross‐sectoral comparisons). A temporal comparison allows for the study of change and continuity of emotional appeals over time, where any identified changes suggest reflection on behalf of the actors' making such appeals and thus the strategic usage of emotions (for further discussion, see Eroukhmanoff & Fazendeiro, ; Koschut, ). Comparisons across different political contexts allow for the study of whether (or not) political actors appeal to emotions differently in different contexts and for making claims about the strategic usage of emotions.…”

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Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

Lynggaard

2019

Political Psychology

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This introductory article to the special issue zooms in on the literature on political emotions with a specific focus on methodological questions of "how to study" political emotions. To the extent that methodological matters are addressed in the extant literature, the associated challenges are often portrayed as a clash between social science and natural science disciplines, a clash frequently illustrated by the meeting between political science and neuroscience. Rather than being a clash between academic disciplines, this article argues that many of the methodological challenges facing emotional research have their origin in scholars' diverse views on the relationship between themselves as researchers and political emotions as a research object. In the light of this acknowledgment, the article encircles and discusses the methodological challenges associated with three key conceptual distinctions between: (1) individual and collective emotions, (2) emotions and reason, and between (3) involuntary political emotions and the strategic usage of political emotions. Using the contributions to this special issue as illustrations, the article argues in favor of moving beyond mutually exclusive dichotomies regarding these conceptual distinctions and offers pathways for dealing with current methodological challenges to emotional research. It points to methodological pluralism, transparency, and context-sensitive research strategies.KEY WORDS: methodology, individual and collective emotions, emotions and reason, involuntary and strategic emotions bs_bs_banner

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Section: Evading Witnesses Of Truthmentioning

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Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

Lynggaard

2019

Political Psychology

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“…Moreover, emotions are not isolated experiences in time but are rather intertwined across temporalities. As Eroukhmanoff and Teles Fazendeiro (2018: 256) note, ‘emotions seldom remain the same as time passes, but neither do they change completely or remain disconnected to each other across time’. Inter-iconicity is thus also embedded in inter-emotionality by referring to a prior web of emotions in times of peace, war and solidarity such as referring to the anti-war movements of the 1960s.…”

Section: Seeing and Feeling Memes: ‘Je Suis Charlie’ ‘I Love Mcr’ Andmentioning

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Responding to terrorism with peace, love and solidarity: ‘Je suis Charlie’, ‘Peace’ and ‘I Heart MCR’

Eroukhmanoff

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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This article explores the affective responses to terrorist attacks in Western Europe, visually manifested through the memes ‘Je suis Charlie’, ‘Peace’, and ‘I heart MCR’ . By invoking the universal peace and solidarity signs, these responses mobilised an iconic repertoire that framed the responses as peaceful retaliations to terrorist attacks in solidarity with the victims and in that respect, helped to visualise and foster positive emotions in times of crisis. Indeed, the memes were articulated as the antidote (love) that can defy the brutality and hatred of terrorists. This article challenges this view in two ways. First, the article argues that the visual interventions constitute technologies of emotional governance that police subjects about whom to love, to whom solidarity should be extended and when and where those feelings should be displayed. Second, drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon, this article demonstrates that by propagating iconic representations of solidarity, peace and love, ‘meming’ attends to the logic of the sensational and the cliché and thereby falls short of contesting terrorism through sensing peace, love and solidarity. Finally, the article addresses how the violence of sensation can release the invisible forces that can be made productive in celebrating life.

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“…Her analysis is focused on 'reading texts that circulate in the public domain, which work by aligning subjects with collectives by attributing "others" as the "source" of our feelings' (Ahmed, 2014, p. 1). By studying media as texts and analysing how they represent emotions, scholars have provided a variety of insights into emotions and global politics by drawing upon interpretive methods, with discourse analysis being particularly prominent (Åhäll, 2018;Åhäll & Gregory, 2015;Eroukhmanoff & Fazendeiro, 2018;Hast, 2018;Hutchison & Bleiker, 2014;Koschut, 2018;Ross, 2013;Van Rythoven, 2015;Solomon, 2012). Emma Hutchison offers a clear articulation of what this approach involves, arguing that emotions should be studied 'through representations, through the words and images in which emotions are expressed and in turn imbued with social meaning' (Hutchison, 2016, p. 18).…”

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Making Sense of Emotions and Affective Investments in War: RT and the Syrian Conflict on YouTube

Chatterje-Doody

Crilley

2019

MaC

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Within the context of an ‘affective turn’ in media studies and the social sciences, this article explores the methodological challenges of researching emotions when studying online videos of conflict. Our study focuses on videos of the Syrian conflict shared on YouTube by the Russian state funded international broadcaster, RT. We propose that the concept of affective investment is a useful pivot between online videos of conflict and audience responses to them. Our study interrogates the role that affective investments play in 1) RT’s YouTube representations of the Syrian conflict, and 2) audience comments on these videos. We draw attention to the important intersections of RT’s representations of the conflict and audiences’ affective investments in those representations, and draw attention to the methodological issues raised. Our empirical focus is two critical junctures in the Syrian conflict: the commencement of Russia’s military intervention; and following the announcement of plans to withdraw Russian troops. We conclude by discussing the utility of affective investments in war when assessing online coverage of conflict, and suggesting avenues for further development.

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Emotions and Time: Approaching Emotions Through a Fusion of Horizons

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

Methodological Challenges in the Study of Emotions in Politics and How to Deal With Them

Responding to terrorism with peace, love and solidarity: ‘Je suis Charlie’, ‘Peace’ and ‘I Heart MCR’

Making Sense of Emotions and Affective Investments in War: RT and the Syrian Conflict on YouTube

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