Häberlen, Joachim C (Author)
Spinney, Russell A. (Author)
It might seem trivial and mere common sense to note that revolts and revolutions are deeply emotional moments. In history books and newspapers, we read about the tense and emotionally charged atmosphere that leads to violence when protestors confront police forces, or about furious and passionate crowds acting in defiance of the ideal of rational and coldblooded politics. But rage and anger are not the only emotions involved in the politics of protest. Consider the iconic photographs of the summer strikes during the French Popular Front in 1936, depicting smiling workers occupying their factories and construction sites, or the cheering crowds storming the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Or consider the genre of protest songs, telling stories of solidarity and hope as well as deep sorrow. At times, social and political movements even made feelings their central concern, such as the hippy movement with its calls for free love. On the other side of the political spectrum, conservative as well as social democratic observers often denounced protests and riots as politically irrelevant outbreaks of hatred, or mocked the 'hysterical' fear of the peace movement during the 1980s. Somehow, these examples suggest, feelings mattered, yet how precisely they mattered is rarely investigated. The essays in this special issue will address this question in order to enrich our understanding of protest movements, revolts and revolutions. Collectively, they intend to open a theoretical and methodological debate on the role of emotions in the politics of protest and resistance.
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Article Zientek, Adam Derek; Häberlen, Joachim C; Spinney, Russell A. (2014) Affective Neuroscience and the Causes of the Mutiny of the French 82nd Infantry Brigade. Contemporary European History (pp. 502-522).
Article Trãni, Christophe; Häberlen, Joachim C.; Spinney, Russell A. (2014) Opposing Scientific Cruelty: The Emotions and Sensitivities of Protestors against Experiments on Animals. Contemporary European History (pp. 523-543).
Book
Friedman, Lawrence Jacob;
Schreiber, Anke M.;
(2013)
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
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Article
Vladimir Černý;
Petr Suchý;
(2020)
Spies and peaceniks: Czechoslovak intelligence attempts to thwart NATO’s Dual-Track Decision
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Book
Lynn Meskell;
(2018)
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
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Thesis
Ethan Czuy Levine;
(2018)
Studying Rape: The Production of Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence in the United States and Canada
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Article
Rafael Mandressi;
(2016)
Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies and Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy
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Book
Cadden, Joan;
(2013)
Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
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Article
Trãni, Christophe;
Häberlen, Joachim C.;
Spinney, Russell A.;
(2014)
Opposing Scientific Cruelty: The Emotions and Sensitivities of Protestors against Experiments on Animals
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Review
Timothy Barr;
(2019)
Review of "Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism"
(/isis/citation/CBB359004357/)
Book
Reddy, William M.;
(2012)
The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900--1200 CE
(/isis/citation/CBB001214627/)
Book
William Davies;
(2016)
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
(/isis/citation/CBB410296742/)
Book
Jonathan Flatley;
(2008)
Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
(/isis/citation/CBB614815373/)
Book
Kandel, Eric R;
(2012)
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB001201847/)
Article
Granek, Leeat;
(2010)
Grief as Pathology: The Evolution of Grief Theory in Psychology from Freud to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB000953644/)
Book
Menninghaus, Winfried;
(2003)
Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation
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Article
Simon Torracinta;
(2023)
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants
(/isis/citation/CBB895271926/)
Book
Deborah Blythe Doroshow;
(2019)
Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
(/isis/citation/CBB495157182/)
Book
Schmidt, Anne;
Eitler, Pascal;
Hitzer, Bettina;
Verheyen, Nina;
Gammerl, Benno;
Bailey, Christian;
Pernau, Margrit;
Frevert, Ute;
Scheer, Monique;
(2014)
Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700--2000
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Book
Boddice, Rob;
(2014)
Pain and Emotion in Modern History
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Article
Marcos José Bernal-Marcos;
Jorge Castro-Tejerina;
José Carlos Loredo-Narciandi;
(2017)
Psychological Keys in the Study of African American Religious Folk Songs in the Early Work of Howard W. Odum (1884–1954)
(/isis/citation/CBB095028498/)
Article
Elizabeth Johnston;
Mary Vitello;
(2021)
Reconstructing the history of emotions: Revisiting Elizabeth Duffy’s rejection of the term “emotion”
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