Overview
Brings together philosophical and social scientific approaches to the emotions to explore the nature of emotions and their effects on everyday life throughout the Americas
Demonstrates how emotions are constructed and function both in theory and in practice by focusing on specific examples and wide-spread contexts of violence, public policy, and education
Brings to the fore inquiries into emotion in Latin America, creating new connections in research that has traditionally centered on U.S. and European contexts
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Emotional Communities in Contexts of Violence
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Teaching Emotions: White Fragility and the Emotional Weight of Epistemic Resistance
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Constructing Emotions in Public Policy and Discourse
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About this book
Attempting to connect the academic discussion around the anthropology and philosophy of the emotions to real-life, everyday experiences, this collection brings together concrete cases and situations arising from specific social and political contexts throughout the Americas. In particular, the authors explore how emotions are generated, constructed, discovered, manipulated, and experienced throughout the Americas by exploring undertheorized topics ranging from investigating the emotional lives of prisoners in Colombia and Brazil who have committed “crimes of passion,” to Colombian soldiers’ experiences of core “emotional events,” to the role of emotions in immigration policy in the United States, to how emotions affect educators’ abilities to teach certain material. Taken as a whole, this innovative, interdisciplinary, collection of original essays is not merely comparative, but rather seeks to bring voices and methodologies from North and South America into conversation to generate innovative analyses and ways to reflect about emotions in response to violence, state policies, and educational systems.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Catalina González Quintero is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her research focuses on the intersection of modern philosophy, skepticism, and rhetoric, with particular attention to the emotional mechanisms of rhetoric. She is the author of the forthcoming book Academic Skepticism in the Enlightenment: Cicero in Hume and Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics (expected 2020).
Allison B. Wolf is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and previously served as Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Honors Education at Simpson College, USA. Her research focuses on feminist philosophy and applied ethics, particularly philosophy of immigration in the Americas and feminist bioethics. She is the author of a forthcoming book entitled Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (expected 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Incarnating Feelings, Constructing Communities
Book Subtitle: Experiencing Emotions via Education, Violence, and Public Policy in the Americas
Editors: Ana María Forero Angel, Catalina González Quintero, Allison B. Wolf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57111-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57110-8Published: 13 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57113-9Published: 13 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57111-5Published: 12 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnology, Emotion, Latin American Culture, Social Philosophy