Emotions, Politics and War

Linda Ahall is a Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University, UK.  Thomas Gregory is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Auckland University, New Zealand.

1. Introduction: Mapping emotions, politics and war – Linda Åhäll and Thomas Gregory A. Researching Emotions 2. The remains of the day - Brian Massumi, 3. Stories of pain and longing: reflecting on emotion, boundaries and feminism through Carrie Mathison and Carrie White - Marysia Zalewski 4. Human dignity, basal emotion and a global emotionology - Karin M. Fierke 5. Embodiment, emotions, and materialism in International Relations - Ty Solomon 6. Anger, war and feminist storytelling - Swati Parashar 7. On ’being bored’ - Street ethnography on emotions in Banda Aceh after the tsunami and conflict - Marjaana Jauhola 8. Experimenting with emotions - Rose McDermott B. Emotionality and War 9. Compassionate soldiering and comfort - Julia Welland 10. Waiting for war: Soldiering, temporality and the gendered politics of boredom and joy in military spaces - Victoria M. Basham 11. Making war work: Resilience, emotional fitness, and affective economies in Western militaries – Alison Howell 12. 'Every man jack of them tried their damndest to control their emotions': Grief in the 1982 Falklands war - Helen Parr 13. Constructing crises and articulating affect after 9/11 - Jack Holland 14. Photographing war: Don McCullin, Vietnam and the politics of emotion – Thomas Gregory 15. Exposed images of war - Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and Andreja Zevnik 16. Grief and the transformation of emotions after war - Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker 17. Concluding reflection – Linda Åhäll and Thomas Gregory