Affective Communities in World Politics
Collective Emotions after Trauma

AUTHOR: Emma Hutchison, University of Queensland



Emotions underpin how political communities are formed and function. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in times of trauma. The emotions associated with suffering caused by war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty can play a pivotal role in shaping communities and orientating their politics. This book investigates how 'affective communities' emerge after trauma. Drawing on several case studies and an unusually broad set of interdisciplinary sources, it examines the role played by representations, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches. Representations of traumatic events are crucial because they generate socially embedded emotional meanings which, in turn, enable direct victims and distant witnesses to share the injury, as well as the associated loss, in a manner that affirms a particular notion of collective identity. While ensuing political orders often re-establish old patterns, traumatic events can also generate new 'emotional cultures' that genuinely transform national and transnational communities.

• The first systematic attempt to understand and examine the role of emotions in world politics
• Examines how people and communities deal with traumatic events, underlining in particular the links between trauma and community in world politics
• Features case studies, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches, to demonstrate how world politics is shaped through representations and how representations are made emotionally and collectively meaningful

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I. Conceptual Framework:
1. Trauma and political community
2. Theorizing political emotions
3. Representing trauma and collectivizing emotions

Part II. The Emotional Constitution of Political Community:
4. Emotions and national community
5. Emotions and transnational community
6. Trauma, grief and political transformation
Conclusion. Affective communities and emotional cultures in international relations.



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