1st Edition

Emotions and Power Habitus and Change in Late Modernity

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book draws on insights from a range of disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, psychology, history and politics to explore the relationship between emotions and social change in late or ‘liquid’ modernity. Using the Republic of Ireland as an illustrative case, the author develops a distinctive theoretical framework, based on a variety of approaches in social theory, to engage with the... Read more

1. Emotions & Power: Towards a Research Agenda

2. Emotions & Power in Contemporary Social Theory

3. Process-Relational Realism: Emotions, Power and Relational Becoming

4. Habitus and Change

5. The Dialectic of Emotional Enlightenment: Emotions & Power in Late Modernity

6. Habitus Shift in Liquid Modern Ireland: A Case Study

7. Regime Change: Constructing a New Politics of Emotion

Conclusion

Appendix

Biography

Jonathan G. Heaney is Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and the co-editor of Power and Emotions.