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Incarnating feelings, constructing communities : experiencing emotions via education, violence, and public policy in the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Forero Angel, Ana María (Editor), González Quintero, Catalina (Editor), Wolf, Allison, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
Emotions > Political aspects > America.
Emotions > Social aspects > America.
Emotions > Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: The Force of Emotions
  • 1 Organization of the Book
  • References
  • Part I: Emotional Communities in Contexts of Violence
  • Chapter 2: The Emotional Turn in Colombian Experiences of Violence
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 An Overview of the History of Research on Emotions
  • 3 The Emotional Turn: Emotions as Relational Acts in the Operation of Social Structures
  • 4 Body and Soul in Transdisciplinary Research
  • 5 First Encounter with Emotions: Parental Punishment as a Way to Correct Behavior and Teach Respect
  • 6 Second Encounter with Emotions: Emotive Configuration in Crimes of Passion
  • 7 Third Encounter with Emotions: Emotional Communities in Reconstructing Social Life
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Understanding Emotions in Members of Societally Powerful Institutions: Emotional Events and Communities in the Narratives of Colombian Soldiers
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Emotional Narratives and Communities
  • 3 Joining the Institution
  • 3.1 Strategies to Join the Institution: Moral Motivations and Cheating Your Way In
  • 3.2 "I No Longer Remember Life as a Civilian: I Am Who I Am Now": The Emergence of a Military Identity
  • 4 Learning How to Kill: The Soldier's "Change of Mentality"
  • 5 The War that "Sticks to" the Soldiers: Narratives of the Future as a Civilian
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II: Teaching Emotions: White Fragility and the Emotional Weight of Epistemic Resistance
  • Chapter 4: Moral Development and Racial Education: How We Socialize White Children and Construct White Fragility
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 White Fragility
  • 3 Aristotle's Theory of Virtue Cultivation and the Construction of White Fragility
  • 3.1 Fear and Cultivating White Fragility
  • 3.2 Cultivating White Privilege, Vices of Domination, and White Fragility
  • 4 Constructing an Alternative to White Fragility
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Epistemic Pushback and Harm to Educators
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Philosophy, Vulnerability, and Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback
  • 2.1 Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback and Differential Damage
  • 2.2 Devising Strategies for Damage Control
  • References
  • Part III: Constructing Emotions in Public Policy and Discourse
  • Chapter 6: "Quit Trying to Make Us Feel Teary-Eyed for the Children!" Constructions of Emotion, Anger, and Immigration Injustice
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Family Separation in the United States
  • 1.2 Reason/Emotion and Family Separation
  • 1.3 Feminist Accounts of Anger and How It Is Operating in the Debate on Family Separation in the United States
  • 2 Nussbaum on Anger
  • 2.1 Nussbaum's Account of Anger and the Family Separation Debate
  • The Anger of the Policy's Supporters
  • 2.2 Nussbaum's Account and the Policy's Critics
  • 2.3 Limitations of Nussbaum's Account for Understanding the Construction, Regulation, and Expression of Anger in the Family Separation Debate in the United States.