Social Economies of Fear and Desire

Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-34173-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency which drastically nuances the commonly held view that fear has predominantly irrational, morally, or ideologically suspect effects which thwart the exercise of autonomy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicol, V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Analyzing emotional selves PART I: EMBODIED IN/CAPACITY THEORY Chapter 1: Analyzing fear and desire Relational threat and relational promise: the anticipation of pain and pleasure Fear, desire, and the hope response Emotional norms: fear and desire forms in relational context Emotional norm pairs Chapter 2: Analyzing emotional interaction Affective, agential, and symbolic attunement Three modalities of fear and desire: panic/excitement, anxiety/interest, and distress/relief Fearing fear and desiring desire: the emergence of internal (moral) conflict Emotional blending and emotional differentiation Chapter 3: Analyzing autonomous selves Biological, subjective, and moral autonomy: unindividuated, self-involved, and other-directed kinds Conceptualizing embodied autonomy Subjective, moral, and social emotional experiences and emotions PART II: EMOTIONAL ECONOMIES Chapter 4: Analyzing moral danger and self-fear From subjective to moral autonomy: the process of responsibilization Explanations for the rise in experiences of self-fear Forms of self-control and forms of moral suffering On physical coercion and moral responsibility Chapter 5: Analyzing social interaction Emotional regulation, hedonic power, and emotion management Social dis/approval: shame/pride and personal insecurity/self-esteem as moral experiences of social danger and social security Moral actions of social conformity Chapter 6: Analyzing emotion management Interacting with The Managed Heart Lying, acting, and emotion management Emotives, modalities of fear and desire, and moral self-control Chapter 7: Analyzing emotional campaigns Master emotional norm pairs: from self-discipline to self-realization Campaigns of fear, campaigns of desire Contemporary emotion management efforts Chapter 8: Analyzing self-discipline and self-realization From the fear of desire to the fear of fear Culture of fear critics Situation assimilation and the mass media

Über Autor(innen)

VALÉRIE DE COURVILLE NICOL Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.