Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32091
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5406/j.ctvthhcxc
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- ISBN
- 9780252042898
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Emotional Bodies examines the materiality of emotions. It proposes “emotional bodies” as an analytical tool to understand how the performativity of emotional practices is at the origin of particular configurations of bodies, individual and collective. The edited volume results from the conference “Emotional Bodies. Studies on the Historical Performativity of Emotions” organized by Dr Dolores Martín Moruno (University of Geneva), Dr Sophie Milquet (University of Lausanne) and Dr Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University) in October 2014 in Geneva, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, The Fonds Generals de l’Université de Genève and the Wellcome Trust. Emotional Bodies includes contributions from 11 authors working internationally in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Canada, Australia and the UK. Chapters are organized around four themes (“Diseased Bodies Under Construction”, “Performing Emotional Bodies”, “Making Social Bodies” and “Humanitarian Bodies in Action”), which reflect the multidisciplinary character of the book, with contributions from the history of emotions, history of medicine, photographic history, humanitarian history, religious history, international relations, gender studies, the history of childhood and art history. Emotional Bodies provides both a theoretical framework for the study of emotional practices and the performativity of emotions, and a wide range of case studies that provides historical examples of emotional bodies. The book has been reviewed in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and Emotions: History, Culture Society, with reviewers praising the “well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection” and declaring that the book “has fulfilled its self-declared objective of pushing the field of the history of emotions forward”.
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