Coming in from the Cold: Constructivism and Emotions
Coming in from the Cold: Constructivism and Emotions
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从寒冷中走出来：建构主义与情感
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2006
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A. Ross
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各种建构主义者已经开始在IR中处理情绪，将情绪事件和记忆视为身份社会建构的重要维度。但目前尚不清楚，在大多数情况下，建构主义的工具，旨在解释话语表征，配备研究情感现象。本文提供了一个批判性的评估建构主义的能力，理论化的影响无意识和具体的情绪状态，在全球政治。本文以亚历山大温特的本体论为例，指出传统建构主义的共同预设事实上阻碍了情感及其在社会和政治生活中的作用的研究。为了把握情感现象的深度、强度和易逝性，建构主义需要重新思考其对反思机构、概念过程和象征意义的依附。通过对美国对9/11事件的反应的简要讨论，最后一节提出了几个关于情感在塑造政治认同中的作用的命题。
A variety of constructivists have begun to address emotions in IR, viewing emotional events and memories as important dimensions to the social construction of identity. But it is not clear that constructivist tools, designed in most cases for interpreting discursive representations, are equipped to study affective phenomena. This article offers a critical assessment of constructivism’s ability to theorize affects—nonconscious and embodied emotional states—in global politics. Using as an example the ontology developed by Alexander Wendt, the article suggests that common presuppositions in orthodox constructivism in fact obstruct the study of affect and its role in social and political life. To grasp the depth, intensity, and fugitivity of emotional phenomena, constructivism needs to rethink its attachments to reflective agency, ideational processes, and symbolic meaning. Through a brief discussion of the American response to 9/11, the final section develops several propositions on the role of affect in forging political identities.