When emotions run high: affective responses to crises in Europe
When emotions run high: affective responses to crises in Europe
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当情绪高涨时:对欧洲危机的情感反应
DOI:
10.1080/13511610.2022.2040832
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
Verbalyte M
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Verbalyte M
This special issue of Innovation tackles the emotional economy of crises in Europe and attempts to link the affective world to institutional behaviour, policy decisions, and citizens’ perceptions. Emotions are often judged normatively as the ‘other of rationality’(Demertzis 2013) or treated as a placeholder for something else, like identity, sensationalism or virality. Yet from a political psychology point of view, emotions have crucial functions that guide individuals while they navigate the socio-political world. For example, they offer a layer to understand voting preferences (eg Brader 2006; Lodge and Taber 2013; Redlawsk, Civettini, and Lau 2007), political attitudes (eg Capelos and Katsanidou 2018; Napier and Jost 2008) and political behaviour (eg Capelos and Demertzis 2018; Goodwin, Jasper, and Polletta 2001). The purpose of this special issue is to go beyond the classic exploration of emotions and to provide a bridge between affective phenomena and wider political developments. In addition, while analysing traditional emotional reactions of anger and fear, the contributions in this special issue shed light on less researched emotions such as shame, compassion, nostalgia, hope, pride, ressentiment and trust. To that extent, the special issue zooms into the role of crises as events that create a particular environment, under which decisions are framed, justified, and legitimised by emotions.We can, therefore, consider crises as those ‘critical junctures’(Collier and Collier 1991), as periods of time when emotions are heightened and emphasised in the public sphere, acting as catalysts in determining citizens’ actions and reactions. During crises, political communication strategies offer emotional guidance to citizens for making sense of the unfolding events. Populist political actors also find fertile ground in times of crises to take advantage of the emotional height for political gains (Moffitt 2015), by creating new framings and communication strategies for the issues, problems and challenges at stake. In this editorial, which acts as an introduction to the contributions of the special issue, we start by providing a brief state of the art, reviewing the relevance of emotions in times of crises, in shaping political views and identities and demonstrate their link to populist success. We then turn to the presentation of the articles of this special issue, focusing on emerging themes around the handling of emotions as well as reconstructing the case-specific and European emotional landscape in times of crises. Finally, we highlight the methodological and theoretical innovations of the articles in advancing our knowledge of the link between emotions and political behaviour, and ways to provide rigour to such research endeavors. Using different theoretical approaches and methods of analysis–quantitative surveys, alongside more qualitative discourse, content, policy and narrative analyses–contributions provide a comprehensive account of the crucial explanatory power of emotions in understanding how current crises in Europe (the refugee and financial crises, rising Euroscepticism and populism) are
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1.4
作者:
Homolar A
通讯作者:
Homolar A
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2000
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通讯作者:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
4.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2021
期刊:
The Palgrave Handbook of Populism
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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