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This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the 'emotional turn' in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research projects, the chapters demonstrate how social-scientific and humanitiesoriented methodological approaches can be successfully adapted to the study of emotions in IR. The volume covers a diverse set of both well-established and innovative methods, including discourse analysis, ethnography, narrative, and visual analysis. Through a hands-on approach, each chapter sheds light on practical challenges and opportunities, as well as lessons learnt for future research. The volume is an invaluable resource for advanced graduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars interested in developing their own empirical research on the role of emotions.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar.- Chapter 2: Eugene Gendlin and the Feel of International Politics Erik Ringmar.- Chapter 3:Interpreting Affect between State Leaders: Assessing the Political Friendship between Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt Yuri van Hoef.- Chapter 4:More Rigor to Emotions! A Comparative, Qualitative Content Analysis of Anger in Russian Foreign Policy Regina Heller.- Chapter 5: Auto-Ethnography and the Study of Affect and Emotion in World Politics: Investigating Security Discourses at London's Imperial War Museum Audrey Reeves.- Chapter 6: A Plea for a Discursive Approach to Emotions: The Example of the French Airmen's Relation to Violence Mathias Delori.- Chapter 7: The Formation of the "Western" Strategic Gaze. A Case Study on Emotional Irrelevancein International Politics Christophe Wasinski.- Chapter 8:Of Heroes and Cowards: A Computer-assisted Analysis of Narratives Justifying the Use of Force Eric Sangar, Maéva Clément, and Thomas Lindemann.- Chapter 9: Moving Images and the Politics of Pity: A Multi-Level Approach to the Interpretation of Images and Emotions Gabi Schlag.- Chapter 10: Political Emotions as Public Processes: Analyzing Transnational Ressentiments in Discourses Reinhard Wolf.- Chapter 11:Emotions and Time: Approaching Emotions through a Fusion of Horizons Clara Eroukhmanoff and Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro.- Chapter 12:Speaking from the Heart: Emotion Discourse Analysis in IR Simon Koschut.- Chapter 13:Grasping the Role of Emotions in IR via Qualitative Content Analysis and Visual AnalysisSibylle Reinke de Buitrago.- Chapter 14: Conclusion: Methods and Methodologies for the Study of Emotions in World Politics Roland Bleiker & Emma Hutchison.
About the author
Maéva Clément is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at the Institute for International Politics at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany.
Eric Sangar is a FNRS Research Fellow based at the University of Namur, Belgium and an associated researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim of Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
Summary
Tackles the issue of methods in the scholarship on emotions in IR
Offers practical 'hands-on' approach behind experienced scholars methodological choices
Presents contributions from a wide variety of perspectives and provides methodological inspiration for a diverse range of questions and topics
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“This edited volume is a welcome, accessible and instructive addition to the discipline that makes a valuable contribution and develops a much-needed discussion about emotions in IR. It will speak to people of diverse methodological dispositions, both students and scholars, and shines a light on how to capture, interrogate and interpret what are subjective, and yet integral, dimensions of human relations.” (Claire Yorke, International Affairs, Vol. 94 (3), May, 2018)
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"This edited volume is a welcome, accessible and instructive addition to the discipline that makes a valuable contribution and develops a much-needed discussion about emotions in IR. It will speak to people of diverse methodological dispositions, both students and scholars, and shines a light on how to capture, interrogate and interpret what are subjective, and yet integral, dimensions of human relations." (Claire Yorke, International Affairs, Vol. 94 (3), May, 2018)
