COVID-19 and the emotional culture of pandemics: a retrospective and prospective view

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Enric J. Novella
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Culture

AXIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW SENSIBILITY DISCOURSE: HOW LANGUAGE REFLECTS REALITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.N. Koshkarova
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Emotional Culture

The paper analyses new sensibility discourse as a social and discursive practice. Axiological characteristics of new sensibility discourse include expression of feelings and emotions, new emotional practices, reaction of a person to the undergone experience, and new genres. Alongside that new sensibility discourse is an institutional, linguistic and pragmatic embodiment of emotional culture. The author analyses genres, forms of communicative behaviour, lexical units and other speech means which function in the framework of new sensibility discourse and reflect axiological preferences of the speakers.

scholarly journals Følelser og sociale bånd i Akademia

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Dimensions

Charlotte Bloch: Emotions and Social Bonds in Academia The purpose of this article is to expand our understanding of social relations in academia by examining the role that the emotional dimensions of these social relations play in academic life. It is based on the results of an interview study of emotions and emotional culture among people in various scholarly positions in academia. The article makes analytical distinctions between the structural conditions of emotions, the emotional culture of academia, lived or felt emotions and the management of emotions. And it identifies different ways of managing the emotions of uncertainty, shame, anger, pride and laughter. These feelings emerge from the structural conditions of the social relations in academic life, and the tacit rules of feeling in academic life define how these feelings are managed. Life in academia presupposes a certain amount of feeling labour and management of feelings. Thomas Scheff’s theory about emotions and social bonds is employed to identify what this management of feelings means for social relations in academia. Bonds in academia are stable and fluctuate between solidarity, isolation and engulfment, but primarily the last two. Loneliness, group conformity, absence of real cooperation, and weakening of individual and collective creativity are some of the consequences of this kind of social bond.

Hitting the mark: The influence of emotional culture on resilient performance.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Adler ◽  
Paul D. Bliese ◽  
Sigal G. Barsade ◽  
Walter J. Sowden
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Culture

AXIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW SENSIBILITY DISCOURSE: HOW LANGUAGE REFLECTS REALITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.N. Koshkarova
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Emotional Culture

The paper analyses new sensibility discourse as a social and discursive practice. Axiological characteristics of new sensibility discourse include expression of feelings and emotions, new emotional practices, reaction of a person to the undergone experience, and new genres. Alongside that new sensibility discourse is an institutional, linguistic and pragmatic embodiment of emotional culture. The author analyses genres, forms of communicative behaviour, lexical units and other speech means which function in the framework of new sensibility discourse and reflect axiological preferences of the speakers.

German Angst

German Angst ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 331-367
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Religious Other

This chapter analyzes contemporary fears in the post-unification Berlin Republic since 1990. It first historicizes the slogan of a “German angst” that is often used to diagnose a German collective pathology. Instead, the chapter argues that the concept emerged in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a conservative critique of the West German environmental and peace movements. The chapter then analyzes the emergence of deterritorialized fears that were no longer primarily bound to a national context. These deterritorialized fears manifested themselves above all in the discussion of unified Germany’s place in the world, especially with respect to the question of German participation in military interventions. Similar fears emerged with respect to the increasing presence of the world in Germany—that is, with respect to immigrants and refugees. The chapter then seeks to locate the current mobilization of such fears by right-wing populist parties in the longer history of fear in postwar Germany. Right-wing populism is part of, and draws on, an expressive emotional culture, but it turns these fears against an ethnic or religious “other,” and at times also against the democratic state itself. The chapter concludes with a reflection on what a democratic politics of emotion might look like.

Apocalyptic Angst

German Angst ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 290-330
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Nuclear Movement ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
History Of

This chapter analyzes the culmination of the history of fear in postwar West Germany during the 1980s. A culture of emotional expressiveness now merged with two new external threats: environmental disaster and a nuclear war. Apocalyptic fears served as the emotional driving forces of two new social movements: the environmental and the peace movements. The environmental movement did not emerge only as a result of new environmental threats but also derived from a changed emotional culture that increased individuals’ susceptibility to environmental threats. The chapter analyzes the emerging perception of a global ecological crisis, the anti-nuclear movement, and the debate over the dying forest in the 1980s. It then explains the emergence of the largest protest movement in the history of West Germany—the peace movement of the 1980s—as a result of a new culture of emotional expressiveness. Peace activists enacted this new emotional culture by publicly displaying and performing fear. The emergence of a popular Holocaust memory also enabled apocalyptic fears of, as it was called, a “nuclear Holocaust.”

Revolutionary Angst

German Angst ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 195-241
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Student Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The West ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Fear And Anxiety

This chapter analyzes the impact of the West German student movement on the history of fear and on emotional culture more generally. The “68ers” propagated an expressive emotional culture that partly displaced the older repressive emotional culture. The student movement celebrated the public display of emotions and enabled a new significance of emotions within political activism and for individual subjectivities. The chapter brings into focus the specific role that fear and anxiety played in shaping the political outlooks and subjectivities of student activities. While historians have often emphasized the optimism that drove the student movement, activists’ fears and disappointments resulted, in part, from their far-reaching, even utopian, ambitions. Fears also resulted from student activists’ confrontation with police and popular violence. Students’ politicization of sexuality turned personal relationships into a source of anxiety because many activists found it difficult to reconcile their political views with their private lives. Finally, the chapter analyzes conservative fears of revolution, as they were expressed by the conservative Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft that sought to contain the influence of left-wing forces within the universities. The dialectic of fear that had already shaped the interplay between democratic fears and fears of democracy in the earlier period intensified further. Revolutionary fears and fears of revolution structured the political debate in the West German 1960s and beyond.

Emotional Culture and TV Narratives

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro García Martínez ◽  
Ana Marta González
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Culture
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