Introduction: Interrogating the ‘everyday’ politics of emotions in international relations
| DOI | 10.1177/1755088219830428 |
| Author | Amanda Russell Beattie,Naomi Head,Clara Eroukhmanoff |
| Date | 01 June 2019 |
| Published date | 01 June 2019 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088219830428
Journal of International Political Theory
2019, Vol. 15(2) 136 –147
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Introduction: Interrogating
the ‘everyday’ politics
of emotions in
international relations
Amanda Russell Beattie
Aston University, UK
Clara Eroukhmanoff
London South Bank University, UK
Naomi Head
University of Glasgow, UK
Abstract
The focus on the everyday in this Special Issue reveals different kinds of emotional
practices, their political effects and their political contestation within both micro- and
macro-politics in international relations. The articles in this Special Issue address the
everyday negotiation of emotions, shifting between the reproduction of hegemonic
structures of feelings and emancipation from them. In other words, the everyday politics
of emotions allows an exploration of who gets to express emotions, what emotions
are perceived as (il)legitimate or (un)desirable, how emotions are circulated and under
what circumstances. Consequently, we identify two thematic strands which emerge as
central to an interrogation of ‘everyday’ emotions in international relations and which
run through each of the contributions: first, an exploration of the relationship between
individual and collective emotions and, second, a focus on the role of embodiment within
emotions research and its relationship with the dynamics and structures of power.
Keywords
Embodiment, emotions, everyday politics, levels of analysis, micro-politics, power
Corresponding author:
Clara Eroukhmanoff, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK.
Email: eroukhmc@lsbu.ac.uk
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