Historicizing both emotions and politics, this book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its effects. The sources range from parliamentary buildings and social movements, to images and speeches of presidents, from fascist cemeteries to the International Criminal Court. Both the timeframe and the geographical focus have been chosen to highlight the increasingly participatory character of nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, which is inconceivable without the work of emotions.
Author(s): Ute Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen, Agnes Arndt, Michael Amico, Karsten Lichau, Hannah Malone, Julia Wambach, Juliane Brauer, Caroline Moine
Series: Palgrave Studies In The History Of Emotions
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 402
Tags: Modern History; Political History; History: General; European History; US History
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introducing Political Feelings: Participatory Politics, Institutions, and Emotional Templates
Politics and Emotion: A Special Affair
Institutions and Emotional Templates
Emotion Work and ‘Moments of Emergence’
Political Institutions and Change
Organization of the Book
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Feeling Political in Public Administration: French Bureaucracy between Militancy and Sens de l’État, 1789–2019
Bureaucratizing Militancy: The French Revolutionary Nation and the Oaths of the Fonctionnaires Civiques (1789–1799)
Unsettling the Feeling Rules of Bureaucracy: Carnot’s École d’Administration and the Unionism of Civil Servants (1848)
The Institutionalization of the Sens de l’État: The Birth of the ENA (1945)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Feeling Political in Parliament: Rules, Regulations, and the Rostrum, Germany 1849–1951
A United Germany: Setting a Template
Weimar: Templating Democracy
Bonn: A Post-totalitarian Template
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Feeling Political Through Law: The Emergence of an International Criminal Jurisdiction, 1899–2019
‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’: The Emergence of an International Criminal Jurisdiction
‘Where Law Exists a Court Will Rise’: The Legal Evolution of an International Criminal Jurisdiction
‘To Supplement Symbolism with Substance’: The Political Development of an International Criminal Jurisdiction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Feeling Political Through Pictures: Portrayals of US Presidents, 1796–2020
Portraying Composure: George Washington
Portraying Perseverance: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Portraying Hope: Barack Obama
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Feeling Political Through the Radio: President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats, 1933–1944
Rising Out of Depression
The Constitutional Revolution of 1937
The Second World War
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Feeling Political on Armistice Day: Institutional Struggles in Interwar France
‘Larger than the Colosseum’: The State’s Desire for Triumphant Glorification
‘Can There Be a Celebration for Men Whose Hearts Are Heavy with Grief?’ The Veterans’ Campaign for the Jour de l’Armistice
From Neglect to Apotheosis: Institutionalizing the Jour de l’Armistice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Feeling Political in Military Cemeteries: Commemoration Politics in Fascist Italy
Fascism and the Templating of Emotions
The Political Purposes of Emotional Templates
Means of Communicating Emotions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Feeling Political Through a Football Club: FC Schalke 04, 1904–2020
The Emotional Templating of Schalke’s Volksgemeinschaft during the Third Reich
The Ineffectiveness of Emotional Templating in Times of Early Deindustrialization
The Slow Re-emergence of Emotional Templating and Nostalgia Marketing from the 1980s and the Legacy of the 1930s
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Feeling Political by Collective Singing: Political Youth Organizations in Germany, 1920–1960
Moment of Emergence: The ‘Weimar Song’
‘The Third Reich Moves with Us!’: Singing in the ‘Volksgemeinschaft’
‘Nest Warmth’ and Visions of the Future: Singing among the Falken and the Free German Youth
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Feeling Political across Borders: International Solidarity Movements, 1820s–1980s
The Philhellenic Movement of the 1820s: People’s Solidarity against Cold State Diplomacy
The Spanish Civil War: Feeling and Institutionalizing the International Socialist Brotherhood
International Solidarity and the Defence of Human Rights in Chile after 1973: Competing Political Emotions?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Feeling Political in Demonstrations: Street Politics in Germany, 1832–2018
Moments of Emergence: Feeling Political, 1830s–1840s
Mass Politics around 1900
New Feelings and Social Movements, 1960s–1980s
Conclusion
Bibliography
Person Index
Subject Index
