The Political Sociology of Emotions: Essays on Trauma and Ressentiment
In: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The political sociology of emotions: an outline -- Political sociology in search of emotionality -- The sociology of emotions at a crossroads -- Toward a political sociology of emotions -- Synopsis -- Part I: The politics of trauma -- Chapter 2: On trauma and cultural trauma -- The semantic field and the historical-societal context -- The cultural trauma theory -- Normative and conceptual prospects of cultural trauma. A very short note -- Synopsis -- Chapter 3: The civil war(s) trauma -- Introduction -- The event: historical context and prime political cultural consequences -- The civil war as a collective injury -- Designating the war -- From collective injury to cultural trauma -- Meta-theoretical repercussions -- Synopsis -- Chapter 4: Mediatizing traumatic experience and the emotions -- Introduction -- Emotions and the media -- Media, trauma, and morality -- Trends of the media-moral emotions nexus -- Synopsis -- Chapter 5: Trauma and the politics of forgiveness -- Entering the past -- Reactions to traumas -- Moral acumen in forgiveness -- Synopsis -- Part II: The politics of ressentiment -- Chapter 6: On resentment, ressentiment, and political action -- Introducing the twin emotional terms -- Of resentment -- Of ressentiment -- Towards an appraisal -- Political bearings -- Synopsis -- Chapter 7: Populism and the emotions -- Introduction -- Defining populism -- Emotionally analyzing populism -- Populism: an emotionally charged phenomenon -- The case of Greek populism -- Perspectives for further research -- Synopsis -- Chapter 8: The emotionality of the nation-state -- Introduction -- The emotionally laden thought of nationalists -- The emotions-driven studies of nationalism.