The Embodied State Emotions, State Power and Social Marginalisation

Introduction

PART 1: Representing the state, mobilising affect

1. The Bastille and the French Revolution: Reading an icon
Eamonn Carrabine

2. Political affects and embodied states: A psychoanalytic framework for theorising the embodiment of state power by state representatives
Louise Braddock, Henrique Carvalho and Craig Reeves

3. Postracial sentimentality and the validation of state racism
Brett St Louis

PART 2: Producing the state through emotionalised governance

 4. Manufacturing informants: The emotion work of the Prevent Duty training
Sadi Shanaah

5. Disgust and punishment in immigration detention
Alethia Fernandez de la Reguera

6. State violence and the affective capacity of an inquest 
Martha McCurdy

7. Staging state embodiment: Performativity, emotional labour, and recalibrating dynamic security in a Philippine City Jail 
Hannah Nario-Lopez

8. Premature revenge: Feud law among prospective police recruits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eduardo de Oliveira Rodrigues

PART 3: Shifting emotional economies of state power

9. The emotional landscape of prison managerialism
Jamie Bennett

10. Relational aspects of prison work and institutional change: Reflections on Uruguay’s prison reform
Ana Vigna

11. The affective turn in criminal process: Stakeholders’ emotional labour in child sexual abuse cases in India
Shailesh Kumar

PART 4: Unsettling Institutionalised Emotions

12. Disgust at the border: Border work as dirty work – Ana Aliverti

13. Creative emotions: The governance of vulnerability and the caring ambivalence of arts therapeutic work in prisons 
Sally Foreman and Anastasia Chamberlen

14. Institutionalised helper interactions and structurally embedded emotions: Welfare assistance as a social form
Åsa Wettergren

15. Beyond the courtroom: emotions, affects and embodied senses of justice in ground-level interventions in the judicialisation of an environmental disaster
Leticia Barrera

16. In search of institutional affect in Sierra Leone’s prisons
Andrew M. Jefferson

PART 5: Navigating dilemmas of care and control

17. Governing through fear: Affective ambivalences and violence in police work
Sara Leon Spesny

18. Embodying the state in probation practice: Emotional labour and self-alienation
Jake Phillips, Sam Ainslie, Andrew Fowler and Chalen Westaby

19. Circuits of outrage against and within the English state of homelessness
Simon Tawfic

20. Plato and the penal reformer’s dilemma: Ambivalence, blocked trinity and the failure of integration
Amanda Wilson and Alan Norrie

21. Emotional labour and feminisation of work: The case of a ‘spontaneous arrival’ at a refugee camp in Greece
Artemis Christinaki and Erica Burman

Biography

Ana Aliverti is Professor of Law at University of Warwick’s Law School. Her research work looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact of such intertwining on criminal justice institutions and on those subject to the resulting set of controls. She has conducted extensive ethnographic work on the police and immigration enforcement, courts and asylum.

Henrique Carvalho is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies at the University of Warwick. His work investigates issues in criminalisation, punishment, state power and justice through dialogues between legal, social, political and cultural theory. Henrique is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).

Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Her research explores the relations between punishment, embodiment, arts and justice. Anastasia is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).

Simon Tawfic is LSE Fellow in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in anthropology (2023) from the London School of Economics, having previously completed the joint honours BA in Anthropology and Law there (2017, First Class). Simon was a postdoctoral research fellow on the Vulnerable State project. His research interests include vulnerability, moral labour on the frontline and the everyday politics of care.