Research Catalog

Title

Political emotions / edited by Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Staiger, Janet.
• Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957-
• Reynolds, Ann Morris.
• Staiger, Janet
• Reynolds, Ann Morris

Description

xii, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Political Emotions: New Agendas In Communication Explores The Contributions That The Study Of Discourses, Rhetoric, And Framing Of Emotion Makes To Understanding The Public Sphere, Civil Society, And The Political Realm. Tackling Critiques On The Opposition Of The Public And Private Spheres, Chapters In This Volume Examine Why Some Sentiments Are Valued In Public Communication While Others Are Judged Irrelevant, And Consider How Sentiments Mobilize Political Trajectories.
• Emerging From The Work Of The Public Feelings Research Group At The University Of Texas At Austin, And Cohering In A New Agendas In Communication Symposium, This Volume Brings Together The Work Of Young Scholars From Various Areas Of Study, Including Sociology, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Art, And New Media. The Essays In This Collection Formulate New Ways Of Thinking About The Relations Among The Emotional, The Cultural, And The Political. Contributors Recraft Familiar Ways Of Doing Critical Work, And Bring Forward New Analyses Of Emotions In Politics. Their Work Expands Understanding Of The Role Of Emotion In The Political Realm, And Will Be Influential In Political Communication, Political Science, Sociology, And Visual And Cultural Studies.
• Janet Staiger Is The William P. Hobby Centennial Professor Of Communication In The Radio/TV/Film Department And Professor Of Women's And Gender Studies At The University Of Texas At Austin.
• Ann Cvetkovich Is The Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor Of English And Professor Of Women's And Gender Studies At The University Of Texas At Austin.
• Ann Reynolds Is An Associate Professor In The Department Of Art And Art History And The Center For Women's And Gender Studies At The University Of Texas At Austin. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

New agendas in communication

Uniform Title

New agendas in communication.

Subject

• Communication in politics > Psychological aspects
• Emotions > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On affect and protest / Deborah Gould -- Televising Guantánamo : transmissions of feeling during the Bush years / Sasha Torres -- Babies who touch you : reborn dolls, artists, and the emotive display of bodies on eBay / Michele White -- The transmission of Gothic : feeling, philosophy, and the media of Udolpho / Samuel Baker -- Feeling bad in 1963 / Heather Love -- Three poems / Neville Hoad -- In the air / Liza Johnson -- Archive, affects, and the everyday : queer diasporic re-visions / Gayatri Gopinath -- The halting grammar of intimacy : watching An American family's final episode / Amy Villarejo -- Servicing the world : flexible Filipinos and the unsecured life / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Thinking about feeling historical / Lauren Berlant.

ISBN

• 9780415880541 (hardback)
• 0415880548 (hardback)
• 9780415880558 (pbk.)
• 0415880556 (pbk.)
• 9780203849538 (e-book)
• 0203849531 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2009052675

OCLC

• 491892421
• SCSB-10980770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library