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States of Sentiment : Exploring the Cultures of Emotion

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents Preface Foreword Overture to a Study of Emotions by Shiv Visvanathan Acknowledgements Introduction Emotion Cultures and Cultural Emotion Studies I Smile Cultures of Well-being 1 The Idea of Well-being 2 Well-being and Sociality 3 Spectacles of Well-being 4 Well-being Cultures 5 The Transformational Citizen II Scars Cultures of Suffering 1 The Idea of suffering 2 Suffering and its Affective Sociality 3 Scar Culture Extreme 4 Cultures and Tele-Trauma 5 The Trauma-Aesthetic 6 Suffering and its Collaterals 7 Spectacles of Sentiment 8 Precarious Lives Witnessing and the Coming Community III Shudders Cultures of Aversion 1 The Idea of Aversion 2 Aversion Cultures 3 The Rhetorics of Aversion 4 Aversion Spectacle IV Yearning Cultures of Hope 1 The Idea of Hope 2 Utopianism and Hope 3 Spectacles of Hope-cultures 4 Utopian Processes and Practices Bibliography IndexThis book proposes that our responses to various situations events and representations are not entirely private individual and internal They have a crucial social dimension Emotions are a result of the internalisation of cultural codes and discourses that inform and even determine the appropriateness or inappropriateness of emotional responses We see a terrorist as a threat a cyclone as worrying a rags-to-riches story as a feel-good moment We mourn the sudden death of Michael Jackson we rejoice in the victory of a triumphant Tendulkar and we react with horror and shock to 911 All of these are emotional responses to specific representational strategies that present these people and events in particular ways These strategies in turn construct our emotional relations to the events and people Exactly how sentiments of care passion desire pleasure fear sympathy or pity are discursively commodified made a commodity in the mass media films reportage and the other public culture forms today is the subject of this book It demonstrates how cultures today are getting emotion-drivenThe book is organised around four sentimentswell-being suffering aversion and hope It uses reality TV hate speech self-help literature media coverage of 911 and 2611 autobiographies websites and films and blends theoretical insights with elements of innovative inquiry to show how emotions are packaged and how these emotions then determine social relations itself 316 pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 94331

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