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Laszczkowski, Mateusz; Reeves, Madeleine

doi:10.3167/sa.2015.590401

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“…The rationalization of administration through its detachment from emotions ensures impartiality and establishes the legitimate rule of state bureaucracies, according to the Weberian narrative. Until today, the dichotomy of rationality and emotionality persists (Illouz & Finkelman 2009), and affects have been largely disregarded by both political theory (Sauer 1999) and political anthropology (Laszczkowski & Reeves 2015). There are, of course, exceptions: Hochschild's The Managed Heart (1983) has become a canonical work that explores the invasion of rationality into emotional domains, coining the terms 'emotional labour' and 'feeling rules.'…”

Section: The 'Turn To Affect' In Studying the Intersections Of Statementioning

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On the Sensory Policing of Vices

Leser

2020

JEA

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This paper explores the policing of vices and offers a critical inquiry into the affective politics of policing practices seen through police and state ethnography, political anthropology, and the 'affective turn' in social and cultural theory. It shows how the moral worlds of policing sex work and performing raids in the red-light 'milieu' are constituted in the making of boundaries through visual, olfactory, somatosensory, and auditory sensations, which can be understood as normative performances in the realm of morality. Police officers do not engage in a neutral gaze but transform the sensuous into sensations that enact these normative distinctions between the 'normal' and the 'abnormal' -the morally questionable red-light 'milieu.' These practices can be read in regard to a morality that is conveyed in and through the officers' sensational performances in an observingly affective and somatic manner. Morality not simply is but is being done-and performing affects and sensations plays a significant role in the making of moral worlds in the realm of policing. Raiding the red-light 'milieu' is a performance on disorder and order, on what is normal and what is not, and thus a deeply political practice that reveals how order-and boundary-making operates through basic sensations and feelings, of the sensuous, the aesthetic, and the somatic.

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Section: The 'Turn To Affect' In Studying the Intersections Of Statementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Sensory Policing of Vices

Leser

2020

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“…These processes are variously understood in terms of familiarity and comfort (Berlant 1998), spheres of subjectification (Oswin and Olund 2010), extreme emotions (Pain 2009;Pain and Smith 2008), and affective investments in 'regimes of the normal' (Eng, Halberstam, and Esteban Muñoz 2005, 1;Peterson 2014;Wright 2010). A contribution of recent scholarship is the exposition of how emotions and affect are inseparable from political geographies (Navaro-Yashin 2012;Pain 2009;Pain and Staeheli 2014;Peterson 2017) and state governing practices (Harker and Martin 2012;Laszczkowski and Reeves 2015;Oswin and Olund 2010).…”

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Introduction: Engaging Geopolitics through the Lens of the Intimate

Barabantseva¹,

Mhurchú²,

Peterson³

2019

Geopolitics

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In this introduction to the special section on "Engaging Geopolitics through the Lens of the Intimate", we first locate the papers collected here in the context of developing an "Intimate Geopolitics" project at the University of Manchester. We then review the importance of 'intimacy' and the concept of 'the intimate' across an array of disciplinary studies, drawing especially on the rich body of work by critical geopolitics scholars who have long challenged categorical binaries and territorial boundaries. Our focus here is exploring what insights we can bring to understanding the nexus of intimacy and global politics by deploying the lens of the intimate-understood as a variety of processes of attachment and relationalityin six globally dispersed case studies. Collectively, the papers presented here not only engage a wide range of issues and locations, but also contribute to research engaging geographically specific contexts and practices. We note that the papers 'cluster' around issues of migration, borders, 'home', asylum and visa regimes, prompting us to suggest that the papers productively inform three foci of inquiry. Specifically, the papers 1) enrich our understanding of bordercrossing beyond simple association of this with the movement of people, things and ideas; 2) deepen our understanding of how geopolitics is constituted by forms of attachments and relationality that are integral to forms of governance; and 3) help us explore how attachments are not simply additive but productive of geopolitical concerns.

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“…The concept of emotional citizenship refers to how individuals perceive citizenship as a feeling, rather than as a set of rights and duties presented by the state and politically received by the citizen. Directly connecting emotions and the state and arguing that the "affective is the substance of politics", Laszczkowski and Reeves (2015: 2) look at how "affective states" (Stoler, 2007) relate an array of emotions, feelings and affects to state formation, development, continuation, and weakening. Emotional citizenship relies heavily on citizenship as a practice (Wood, 2013), that is, on the daily experience of citizenship (Nyers, 2007).…”

Section: Emotional Citizenship Home and Belongingmentioning

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Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ibričević¹

2019

MET

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This paper examines the case of voluntary return migration to a post-conflict society, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where the returnee freely chooses to go back despite having a viable alternative of livelihood and a well-integrated social presence abroad. The initial claim of the paper is that the motivation for this type of return is primarily emotional. Although the much researched (Brown, 2014) "patriotic love" is certainly part of returnees' emotional landscape, other emotions play an equal, and sometimes a more important role. Arguing that fear is a key emotion constituting returnees' daily experience of BiH citizenship, the paper identifies three dimensions of fear: ethnic discrimination, economic uncertainty and abuse of political power. Returnees' continued life and work in the home state represent an act of remarkable courage, the success of which does not occur because of the state structure envisioned by the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) that comprises the current BiH Constitution, but in spite of the obstacles it creates. The argument is based on a thematic analysis of 35 in-depth interviews conducted with members of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora/transmigrants, who have voluntarily decided to return and settle in BiH.

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Cited by 49 publications

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On the Sensory Policing of Vices

On the Sensory Policing of Vices

Introduction: Engaging Geopolitics through the Lens of the Intimate

Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

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