{"product_id":"feeling-democracy-emotional-politics-in-the-new-millennium-paperback-softback-9781978835450","title":"Feeling Democracy; Emotional Politics in the New Millennium (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978835450","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeeling Democracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmotional Politics in the New Millennium\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Tobias (Edited by), Arlene Stein (Edited by), Kathryn Abrams (Contributions by), Nermin Allam (Contributions by), Kirin Gupta (Contributions by), Noëlle McAfee (Contributions by), Ileana Nachescu (Contributions by), Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Contributions by), Sarah Tobias (Contributions by), Arlene Stein (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978835450\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e250 pages, 0 images\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"'Feeling democracy' sounds like a paradoxical practice as the normative foundation of liberal democracy is rationality. This book gives profound argumentations and examples to disentangle the emotional power dynamics in democracies from a global feminist and intersectional perspective. 'Feeling democracy' is especially important in times of right-wing challenges to liberal democracy and right-wing antagonistic affective mobilization across the globe.\" - Birgit Sauer (co-author of Governing Affects: Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work) \"The need to think about feelings as being political is more urgent than ever, and this very smart collection of feminist essays deftly tracks past the persistent assumption that emotions undermine democracy.\u003ci\u003e Feeling Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e instead works with feelings, both good and bad, in order to offer timely insights for the current moment and new conceptions of what democracy looks-and feels-like.\" - Ann Cvetkovich (author of Depression: A Public Feeling)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCultural critic Lauren Berlant wrote that “politics is always emotional,” and her words hold especially true for politics in the twenty-first century. From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the anti-abortion movement, politicians and activists appeal to hope, fear, anger, and pity, all amplified by social media. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eFeeling Democracy \u003c\/i\u003eexamine how both reactionary and progressive politics are driven largely by emotional appeals to the public. The contributors in this collection cover everything from immigrants’ rights movements to white nationalist rallies to show how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics. Some essays draw parallels between today’s activist strategies and the use of emotion in women-led radical movements from the 1960s and 1970s, while others expand the geographic scope of the collection by considering Asian decolonial politics and Egyptian pro-democracy protests. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Incorporating scholarship from fields as varied as law, political science, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and history, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e considers how emotional rhetoric in politics can be a double-edged sword-often wielded by authoritarian populists who seek to undermine democracy but sometimes helping to bring about a genuine renewal of participatory democracy.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction - Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Social Movements and Emotion Cultures: Learning from the Undocumented Immigrants’\u003cbr\u003e Movement - Kathy Abrams            \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Women of Egypt are a Red Line”\u003cbr\u003e: Anger and Women’\u003cbr\u003es Collective Action - Nermin Allam\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Our Paranoid Politics - NoË\u003cbr\u003elle McAfee\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Political Branding of COVID-19 - Ciara Torres-Spelliscy             \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Towards a Decolonial Democracy: Rageful Hope in the 1961 and 1972 Afro-Asian Women’\u003cbr\u003es Conferences - Kirin Gupta    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Kind of World We Wanted to Be In”\u003cbr\u003e: “\u003cbr\u003eProtocol Feminism”\u003cbr\u003e and Participatory Democracy in Intersectional Consciousness-Raising Groups - Ileana Nachescu                                 \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640481378584,"sku":"9781978835450","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feeling-democracy-emotional-politics-in-the-new-millennium-paperback-softback-9781978835450","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}