Political emotions and political atmospheres

Osler, Lucy; Szanto, Thomas

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“…The willingness to be conformed to a specific social model is something that already presupposes the process of group identification and is able to elicit collective emotion. As described by Osler and Szanto (2021), collective political emotions have specific features and can be defined as "jointly felt appraisals of a politically relevant object, person or even in light of the given community's political concerns" (p. 13). In particular, robustly shared political emotions seem to have requirements that, in our view, can play a strong role in a process like the diagnostic one, where the idea of conformity and the fear of what can be dangerous to the society (a strong collective identity) guide part of the epistemological and hermeneutical praxis.…”

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“…Robustly shared political emotions involve the following elements (Osler & Szanto, 2021): Two-dimensional affective intentionality requirement: The sharedness is part of the emotion itself, and there is a mutual awareness of it.Public recognition requirement: External members also recognize the emotion at stake, and there is a predominance of the public sphere.Reciprocity requirement: There are reciprocal relations between the community’s perspective and the members’ perspectives.Normativity requirement: “The sharedness of political emotions must have a certain normative impact on members’ emotion regulation, their political motivation and comportment and on the appropriateness of their emotions.” (p. 16)…”

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“…Normativity realigns individuals "around a shared emotional perspective and enforce[s] the political identity of groups" (Ivi [Osler & Szanto, 2021], p. 18). As such, experiences of robust political emotions "not only impact how we ought to feel in a particular moment but how we ought to feel in similar moments going forward and they work to strengthen one's sense of belonging to a political community" (Ivi [Osler & Szanto, 2021], p. 18). 2 As such, the normative function of collective (political) emotions has the power:…”

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Psychiatric diagnosis as a political and social device: Epistemological and historical insights on the role of collective emotions.

Bizzari¹,

Brencio²

2024

The Humanistic Psychologist

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The overarching aim of this contribution is to show how there are many elements in the making of a psychiatric diagnosis that are not confined to the nature of the “disease”—a topic that would require another work in order to be properly clarified—but rather that are grounded in the historical context and social elements. The circular and mutual influences of these elements contribute to forge certain epistemological frameworks that legitimize the use of certain diagnostic categories. This essay is divided into three sections. In the first section, we highlight how the notion of psychiatric diagnosis needs to be considered in light of some specific epistemological assumptions that deal both with theoretical principles, never mentioned in the most used diagnostic manuals, and with power relations. In the second section, we analyze the role of collective emotions in the making of a diagnosis and particularly their political implications. In the third section, we provide a historical and epistemological analysis of the birth of Asperger’s syndrome, highlighting the role of collective emotions and their ideological impact on this diagnosis.

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Psychiatric diagnosis as a political and social device: Epistemological and historical insights on the role of collective emotions.

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2024

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“…By unravelling the knots of experience, the authors aim to bring to the fore the political thread of atmospheres, exploring the latter's potential means of resistance. Lucy Osler and Thomas Szanto spot the political dimension of atmospheres in the fact that the latter can be created and can influence who experiences them (Osler & Szanto, 2021). They explain that "political atmospheres occur at the 'micro' level, at events such as political rallies, meetings, or speeches."…”

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Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres

Kanellopoulou¹

2022

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The underground is strongly linked to imaginaries woven by humans' actions towards the unexplored world below their feet. It has nourished myths and fictions about the afterlife, escapism and exile. In Plato's Republic, the allegory of the soldier Er, descending to the Inferno (Richardson, 1926) revives humanity's fears and beliefs about communication with the unknown and the challenge of limits. In Homer's Iliad, the dead also descend to a subterranean realm ruled by gods. In the Homeric Odyssey, the katábasis is described as a heroic journey to a supernatural world (Burgess, 2016). Although underground ways of life have been envisaged in literature, fiction, religion and folk tales, human settlements throughout history have reaffirmed practical ways of living on the Earth's surface through adaptation to each region's climate. Visions and imaginaries about the underworld have profoundly changed with the advent of industrial society, by mechanising, measuring and wishing to conquer every inch of the terra. The underground world was rationalised while it was accessed, tamed and forged by new aspirations about the expandable limits of humankind's territory. The troglodyte (from the Greek, meaning living in holes) houses and settlements dispersed around the globe remind us of human beings' ongoing efforts to protect their bodies from hostile weather, but also of the effort to deal with the scarcity of building materials and comfort of housing conditions. But what link could one make between Friedrich Engels's criticism of the unhealthy, wretched conditions of the working classes in industrial Manchester and Liverpool, the semi-underground apartments for migrant populations in Athens (Maloutas & Botton, 2021) or the abandoned bunkers providing refuge for the unwanted of society's global metropolises? The stratification of classes in human settlements is the result of finite, valuable (for its use) space and the constant quest for better living conditions "on an upper level" with sufficient air and light. This social stratification of the urban environment was celebrated by architects and planners of the 20 th century 1 who wished to structure the city vertically -such as Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres Ambiances, 8 | 2022

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Migration intentions in a politically divided context: The interactive roles of affective polarization and dyadic political attitudes

Cheung,

Lui

2024

Population Space and Place

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This study examines migration intentions in a politically divided context, focusing on the interactive roles of individuals’ and the spouses’ affective polarization and political attitudes. Our study uses Hong Kong as a case study to elucidate migration intentions in the context of political polarization and increasing authoritarianism. We investigate how individuals facing the same political conditions exhibit varying inclinations to migrate. Our analysis is based on dyadic data from a representative household survey involving 1003 married couples. The findings reveal that spousal pro‐democratic attitudes and affective polarization are associated with stronger migration intentions, with significant implications for predicting migration patterns. Moreover, the study highlights the significance of the interactive role between individuals’ and the spouses’ political attitudes in shaping migration intentions. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between dyadic political attitudes, affective polarization, and migration intentions in highly developed societies with advanced economies.

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Political emotions and political atmospheres

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Psychiatric diagnosis as a political and social device: Epistemological and historical insights on the role of collective emotions.

Psychiatric diagnosis as a political and social device: Epistemological and historical insights on the role of collective emotions.

Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres

Migration intentions in a politically divided context: The interactive roles of affective polarization and dyadic political attitudes

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