UE270 - Emotions as a social and political performance

This class will address the question of whether emotions – both as a component of interactions and as a formalized stylistic expression in art and literature – are a way of performing social and political relations.

The class will explore 8 emotions – anger, disgust, fear, love, shame, pride, love and grief – and analyse the ways in which these emotions contain, express, maintain, challenge social hierarchies, economic processes and hierarchies of power.  Students will be asked to conduct a  empirical fieldwork, in the form of text analysis or interviews.

Dates des séances : 

29.10

12.11

26.11

10.12

07.01

21.01

11.02

25.02