A mapping of convergent and heterogeneous views about emotional expressions of power and conflict

Abstract

From an affective perspective, this book brings together four blocks for reading power and conflict: theoretical approaches, corporeal-emotional gender, hegemony and resistance, and state policies. Throughout 11 texts, this work includes readings on how to place the sensorial and emotional dimensions in different social theories, how the gender order is linked to the affective, the ways of resisting or obeying hegemonies, and the way in which emotions are present in state policies. The review aims to give an overview of how the authors articulate and link themselves to an epistemological stance of recovering affectivity from diverse positions and enquiries. The book shows a multiplicity of points of view and different fields where the affective is not an extra element but rather what allows us to decipher power and conflict