In the mood for peace? Mood work and structures of feeling in the politics of peace education

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12876012
AutoresM Zembylas (0000-0001-6896-7347, Open University of Cyprus, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas342-359
Fecha de publicación2021-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Peace Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17400201.2021.2013786
OpenAlexW4211195560
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas24

This paper puts in conversation Martin Heidegger’s concept of Stimmung (mood or attunement) with Raymond Williams’ notion of ‘structures of feeling’ to theorize ‘mood work’ in peace education. It is argued that the perspective of mood provides new insights in peace education that might be harder to grasp through the lens of affect or emotion, suggesting that mood is a term well suited to paying attention to longer duration of affective phenomena. In particular, mood work draws attention to the processes of affective (mis)attunement, that is, the successes and failures of individuals and groups to ‘fit the mood.’ The author offers a vignette from his ethnographic research to show the mood work conducted by a teacher in the context of a peace education initiative within a conflict-affected society. The analysis shows how mood work marshals bodies, objects, and feelings towards or away from particular political visions in peace education

Affect (linguistics · Attunement · Closeness · Context (archaeology · Feeling · Mood · Peace Education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Peace and Human Rights Education · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Social Psychology