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Emotions in Crisis

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We usually speak of crisis in numbers: decline in purchasing power, rise in unemployment rates or decreasing levels of life satisfaction. But what do people feel when their supposed securities for ...
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  • 21 May 2024
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We usually speak of crisis in numbers: decline in purchasing power, rise in unemployment rates or decreasing levels of life satisfaction. But what do people feel when their supposed securities for their futures crumble?

The stories of the young adults after the 2008 economic crisis in Spain provide us with answers. This book shows how their loss of future prospects led to feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, frustration and resentment, and how they dealt with these emotions.

Combining the sociology of emotions with Bourdieu's practice theory, Emotions in Crisis analyses the impact of structural changes in society on individual and collective emotions. It shows that adapting to such changes involves 'emotion work' and highlights the different forms this work can take.

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Price: $119.95
Pages: 210
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
ISBN: 9781529235036
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology: work and labour, Social and cultural anthropology
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“When the world economic crisis hit Spain, solid jobs melted into jobs that were short-term, part-time, lower paid, unpaid, uncertain or gone. Creatively integrating the work of Pierre Bourdieu and other theorists, Margies analyzes the resulting “hysteresis,” emotional responses to it, and ways of dealing with such emotions. A big issue and a very illuminating contribution to the sociology of emotion.” Arlie Hochschild, author of The Managed Heart and Stolen Pride: loss, shame and the rise of the right.
Nina Margies is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Introduction

1. Emotions, Structure and Agency

Part 1: Feeling Hysterisis

2. Feeling Stuck: The Impasse

3. Emotional Responses

Part 2: Interpreting and Dealing with Emotions of Hysteresis

4. Individualistic Frames and Individual Backstages

5. Systemic Frames and Collective Spaces for Emotion Work

Part 3: (Re)positioning in the Face of Change

6. Emotional Fulfilment and Work

7. Anger and Work

Conclusion

Appendix: The Research