Theorizing emotions in world politics
Theorizing emotions in world politics
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世界政治中的情绪理论
作者：
Emma Hutchison;Roland Bleiker
情感在国际关系研究中发挥着越来越重要的作用。本文简要回顾了各自争论的发展，然后提出了前进的道路。关键的挑战，我们认为，是理论化的过程中，个人情绪成为集体和政治。我们进一步建议，这是最好的，通过探索两个看似不相容的学术倾向的见解：宏观理论方法，发展关于政治情绪的可推广的命题，相反，微观方法，研究特定的情绪如何在特定的情况下发挥作用。运用这一框架，我们确定了四个领域，这些领域对于理解情绪的政治意义至关重要：（1）定义的重要性;（2）身体的作用;（3）表征的问题;（4）情绪和权力的交织。综合起来，这些基本要素揭示了情绪如何以复杂和相互交织的方式渗透到世界政治中，而且一旦认真对待，就会挑战国际关系学术的许多根深蒂固的假设。
Emotions play an increasingly important role in international relations research. This essay briefly surveys the development of the respective debates and then offers a path forward. The key challenge, we argue, is to theorize the processes through which individual emotions become collective and political. We further suggest that this is done best by exploring insights from two seemingly incompatible scholarly tendencies: macro theoretical approaches that develop generalizable propositions about political emotions and, in contrast, micro approaches that investigate how specific emotions function in specific circumstances. Applying this framework we then identify four realms that are central to appreciating the political significance of emotions: (1) the importance of definitions; (2) the role of the body; (3) questions of representation; and (4) the intertwining of emotions and power. Taken together, these building blocks reveal how emotions permeate world politics in complex and interwoven ways and also, once taken seriously, challenge many entrenched assumptions of international relations scholarship.