In this introduction, we outline the Affective Societies research perspective and explain the
rationale of the volume. In particular, we expound upon Affective Societies as both a …

This is an interdisciplinary text that spans the humanities and the social sciences in the
areas of social theory, cultural studies, social and educational policy, feminist ethics and …

Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal
professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive …

Recent work across the social sciences have converged on the issue of emotion. In the
vanguard of these advances has been the sociology of emotions, broadly defined, which, in …

In this introduction, we situate the growing and diverse literature on affect and citizenship as
only beginning to capture the world around us, where tensions and hope run high. We …

The Government has named the 'fundamental British values'(FBV) as democracy, the rule of
law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths. Since …

The chapter introduces the concept of affective citizenship as an innovative and promising
avenue to explore and revisit the relationship between states and subjects in contemporary …

Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson's Gendered States asked what difference gender
makes in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system. This …

The election of the first African‐American President of the United States, Barack Obama, has
been widely recognised as an extraordinary milestone in the history of the United States and …

This article argues for the relevance of a rhetorical approach to the study of citizenship,
proposing the concept of rhetorical citizenship as a term for a fourth dimension of citizenship …