States of Feeling

Public Servants’ Affective and Emotional Entanglements in the Making of the State

Bibliographic Data

ID4744488
AuthorsSophie Andreetta (0000-0001-9427-3007, FNRS/University of Liège, Belgium [email protected], corresponding author), L Enria (0000-0002-6336-6531, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK [email protected]), Pauline Jarroux (0000-0001-6972-5374, University of Rouen, France [email protected]), Susanne Verheul (0000-0001-5256-5685, University of Oxford, UK [email protected])
Year2022
Volume40
Issue2
Pages1-20
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/cja.2022.400202
OpenAlexW4295921361
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited48

With the affective turn, scholars pay increased attention to the emotional dimensions of everyday life. This special issue builds on this work through an explicit focus on bureaucracies to show what a more sustained attention to affects and emotions can bring to the study of the state, both as an apparatus and as an image. Contributions highlight the importance of ethnographically studying the affective relations and emotional engagements of public servants to understand how representations and practices of the state are brought together in often intangible, sometimes unspoken, but nonetheless powerful ways. In this Introduction we situate our wider contribution and the individual articles in debates about the social lives of the state and the daily practices of public servants. We postulate how affective intensities give rise to particular political imaginations and subjectivities, and we reflect on ethnography's unique position within the study of emotions and affects in political anthropology

Aesthetics · Bureaucracy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · History of Emotions Research · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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