Attempting to connect the academic discussion around the anthropology and philosophy of the emotions to real-life, everyday experiences, this collection brings together concrete cases and situations arising from specific social and political contexts throughout the Americas. In particular, the authors explore how emotions are generated, constructed, discovered, manipulated, and experienced throughout the Americas by exploring undertheorized topics ranging from investigating the emotional lives of prisoners in Colombia and Brazil who have committed “crimes of passion,” to Colombian soldiers’ experiences of core “emotional events,” to the role of emotions in immigration policy in the United States, to how emotions affect educators’ abilities to teach certain material. Taken as a whole, this innovative, interdisciplinary, collection of original essays is not merely comparative, but rather seeks to bring voices and methodologies from North and South America into conversation to generate innovative analyses and ways to reflect about emotions in response to violence, state policies, and educational systems.
Author(s): Ana María Forero Angel, Catalina González Quintero, Allison B. Wolf
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 227
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Force of Emotions
1 Organization of the Book
References
Part I: Emotional Communities in Contexts of Violence
Chapter 2: The Emotional Turn in Colombian Experiences of Violence
1 Introduction
2 An Overview of the History of Research on Emotions
3 The Emotional Turn: Emotions as Relational Acts in the Operation of Social Structures
4 Body and Soul in Transdisciplinary Research
5 First Encounter with Emotions: Parental Punishment as a Way to Correct Behavior and Teach Respect
6 Second Encounter with Emotions: Emotive Configuration in Crimes of Passion
7 Third Encounter with Emotions: Emotional Communities in Reconstructing Social Life
References
Chapter 3: Understanding Emotions in Members of Societally Powerful Institutions: Emotional Events and Communities in the Narratives of Colombian Soldiers
1 Introduction
2 Emotional Narratives and Communities
3 Joining the Institution
3.1 Strategies to Join the Institution: Moral Motivations and Cheating Your Way In
3.2 “I No Longer Remember Life as a Civilian: I Am Who I Am Now”: The Emergence of a Military Identity
4 Learning How to Kill: The Soldier’s “Change of Mentality”
5 The War that “Sticks to” the Soldiers: Narratives of the Future as a Civilian
6 Conclusions
References
Part II: Teaching Emotions: White Fragility and the Emotional Weight of Epistemic Resistance
Chapter 4: Moral Development and Racial Education: How We Socialize White Children and Construct White Fragility
1 Introduction
2 White Fragility
3 Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue Cultivation and the Construction of White Fragility
3.1 Fear and Cultivating White Fragility
3.2 Cultivating White Privilege, Vices of Domination, and White Fragility
4 Constructing an Alternative to White Fragility
References
Chapter 5: Epistemic Pushback and Harm to Educators
1 Introduction
2 Philosophy, Vulnerability, and Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback
2.1 Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback and Differential Damage
2.2 Devising Strategies for Damage Control
References
Part III: Constructing Emotions in Public Policy and Discourse
Chapter 6: “Quit Trying to Make Us Feel Teary-Eyed for the Children!” Constructions of Emotion, Anger, and Immigration Injustice
1 Introduction
1.1 Family Separation in the United States
1.2 Reason/Emotion and Family Separation
1.3 Feminist Accounts of Anger and How It Is Operating in the Debate on Family Separation in the United States
2 Nussbaum on Anger
2.1 Nussbaum’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Debate
The Anger of the Policy’s Supporters
2.2 Nussbaum’s Account and the Policy’s Critics
2.3 Limitations of Nussbaum’s Account for Understanding the Construction, Regulation, and Expression of Anger in the Family Separation Debate in the United States
3 Lorde on Anger
3.1 Lorde’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Policy Debate
4 Frye on Anger
4.1 Frye’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Policy Debate
5 How Is This All Occurring? Exploring Techniques Used to Construct and Regulate Anger in the Context of the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
5.1 Silencing Practices
5.2 Fighting Immigration Injustice by Promoting Anger on Behalf of Immigrants
References
Chapter 7: Staging Guilt and Forgiveness in Colombian Mass Media: Transactional Forgiveness and the Effacement of Victims
1 Introduction
2 The Performance: A Transactional Script for Guilt and Forgiveness
3 The Offender: The Leading Role in the Show of Repentance and Guilt
4 The Victims: The Supporting Role and the Eclipsing Forgiveness
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Awkward Ruins: Topophilia and the Narratives of Stripping in Santiago and Bogotá
1 Introduction
2 Villa San Luis, Santiago de Chile
2.1 1970–2020
2.2 Socialist Utopia
2.3 Eviction and Stripping
2.4 Monumentalize to Save
2.5 Memory, Art, and Mourning
2.6 A Museum in the Ruins of Utopia
3 The “L” or Bronx Street, Bogotá
3.1 2001–2020
3.2 Renovate Oblivion
3.3 Art, Drugs, and Memories of the Scrap
3.4 A Museum in the Ruins of Heterotopia
4 Conclusions
References
