Public Emotions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Perri Six, Corinne Squire, Amal Treacher, Susannah Radstone

      Pages 1-33

3. Emotions, Conflict and Settlement: a New Durkheimian Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Rituals Elicit Emotions to Define and Shape Public Life: a Neo-Durkheimian Theory

      • Perri Six

      Pages 37-61

   3. The Emotions at War: A Musicological Approach to Understanding Atrocity in Sierra Leone

      • Paul Richards

      Pages 62-84

   4. Public Emotion in a Colonial Context: a Case Of Spirit-Writing in Taiwan under Japanese Occupation

      • Stephan Feuchtwang

      Pages 85-101

4. Intrapsychic and ‘Public’ Emotions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Anxiety, Mass Crisis and ‘the Other’

      • Hélène Joffe

      Pages 105-118

   3. Another Repressed Returns: the Re-Branding of German Psychoanalysis

      • Stephen Frosh

      Pages 119-138

   4. Surface Tensions: Emotion, Conflict and the Social Containment of Dangerous Knowledge

      • Andrew Cooper

      Pages 139-155

   5. Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions

      • Michael Rustin

      Pages 156-178

5. Cultural, Historical and Political Formations of Emotion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Theory and Affect: Undivided Worlds

      • Susannah Radstone

      Pages 181-201

   3. Feeling Entitled: HIV, Entitlement Feelings and Citizenship

      • Corinne Squire

      Pages 202-230

   4. The Future is Not There for the Making: Enduring Colonialism, Shame and Silence

      • Amal Treacher

      Pages 231-246

6. Back Matter

   Pages 247-254

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Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power and is a multidisciplinary collaboration showing the emotional character of public life.

• anxiety
• character
• Citizenship
• conflict
• emotion
• feelings
• identity
• memory
• Presse
• Ritual

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Perri Six

• University of East London, UK

  Susannah Radstone, Corinne Squire

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Amal Treacher

ANDREW COOPER is Professor of Social Work at the University of East London and the Tavistock Clinic, UK STEFAN FEUCHTWANG is a Professorial Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK STEPHEN FROSH is Pro-Vice-Master, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HELENE JOFFE is a Social and Health Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, University College London, UK PAUL RICHARDS is Chair of Technology and Agrarian Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UK MICHAEL RUSTIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, where he was for ten years Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic, UK

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