Følelseshistorie: Teoretiske brudflader og udfordringer
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Følelseshistorie : Teoretiske brudflader og udfordringer. / Vallgårda, Karen Asta Arnfred.
In: Kulturstudier, No. 2, 2013, p. 87-113.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Følelseshistorie
T2 - Teoretiske brudflader og udfordringer
AU - Vallgårda, Karen Asta Arnfred
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The history of emotions is currently a rapidly expanding field. Probing a number of important recent contributions to the field, this article discusses the central theoretical and methodological challenges that researchers must confront when interrogating emotions in different historical contexts: How should we define emotions? To what extent are they socially constituted and culturally contin- gent? Is there anything universal about human emotional experience? The article makes the case that the greatest challenge for historians of emotion is to con- ceptualize emotions in a way that captures their social constitution while at the same time implies a principle of emotional changes over time. Taking Monique Scheer’s concept of ”emotional practices” as a starting point, the article argues that it could productively be combined with theories that point to the sociopo- litical effects of emotions. This conceptualization makes it possible to shift the theoretical focus away from the emotions’ ontological status towards an analysis of how emotions are done and with what effects. Examining different empirical examples from postcolonial studies, the article finally shows how the concept of emotional practices is useful to think with in analyses of the sociopolitical implications of emotions.
AB - The history of emotions is currently a rapidly expanding field. Probing a number of important recent contributions to the field, this article discusses the central theoretical and methodological challenges that researchers must confront when interrogating emotions in different historical contexts: How should we define emotions? To what extent are they socially constituted and culturally contin- gent? Is there anything universal about human emotional experience? The article makes the case that the greatest challenge for historians of emotion is to con- ceptualize emotions in a way that captures their social constitution while at the same time implies a principle of emotional changes over time. Taking Monique Scheer’s concept of ”emotional practices” as a starting point, the article argues that it could productively be combined with theories that point to the sociopo- litical effects of emotions. This conceptualization makes it possible to shift the theoretical focus away from the emotions’ ontological status towards an analysis of how emotions are done and with what effects. Examining different empirical examples from postcolonial studies, the article finally shows how the concept of emotional practices is useful to think with in analyses of the sociopolitical implications of emotions.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - Følelseshistorie
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
SP - 87
EP - 113
JO - Kulturstudier
JF - Kulturstudier
SN - 1904-5352
IS - 2
ER -
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