Who Thinks, Feels. The Relationship Between Emotions, Politics and Populism
Who Thinks, Feels. The Relationship Between Emotions, Politics and Populism
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DOI：
10.1285/i20356609v13i1p83
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发表时间：
2020-04
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0.8
通讯作者：
Donatella Bonansinga
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作者：
Donatella Bonansinga
在学术界和大众的理解中都有一种倾向，即把情感与理性对立起来，并将其判断为智力低下的表现。这一点在当前对民粹主义的描述中最为明显，这些描述往往将民粹主义支持者描述为被激情所控制，而不是依靠理性思考。然而，这些论点很难经得起科学的检验。正如我将通过回顾最先进的技术来展示的那样，政治心理学等学科的进步现在已经提供了系统的证据，证明与传统上根植于公众想象的相反，情感和认知是如何协同工作的。如果情绪是决策的一个组成部分，对任何类型的政治参与都至关重要，那么我们应该问的问题是情绪与民粹主义之间的关系有什么特殊之处。在文章的第二部分，我将探讨情感上的“供给和需求”在我们当代社会中是如何交叉的，资本主义、个人主义和全球化创造了特殊的情感状态，为民粹主义诉求的共鸣提供了肥沃的土壤。本文从结构性、主观性和交际性三个维度考察情绪与民粹主义的关系，多层次地揭示了情绪对民粹主义产生、扩散和成功的重要意义。
There is a tendency both in academia and in popular understandings to posit emotions against rationality and to judge them as an expression of intellectual inferiority. This could not be more evident than in current accounts of populism, which often describe populist supporters as overtaken by passions rather than relying on rational deliberation. However these arguments hardly stand up to scientific scrutiny. As I will show by reviewing the state-of-the-art, advancements in disciplines such as political psychology have now provided systematic evidence of how, contrary to what is traditionally rooted in the public imaginary, emotions and cognition work in concert. If emotionality is an integral part of decision-making and is vital to any type of political engagement, the question we should rather ask is what is peculiar about the relationship between emotions and populism. In the second part of the article, I will explore how the emotional 'supply and demand' intersect in our contemporary societies, where capitalism, individualism and globalisation have created particular affective states that provide fertile ground for the populist appeal to resonate. By examining the emotions-populism relationship based on three broad dimensions - structural, subjective and communicative -, this article provides a multilevel analysis that unpacks the significance of emotions for the emergence, diffusion and success of populism.