Public Emotions

PERRI 6 is Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has published over twenty books. Much of his work has used the neo-Durkheimian institutional approach. His most recent publications include Beyond 'delivery': Policy Implementation as Sense-Making and Settlement, Managing Networks of Twenty First Century Organisations, E-governance: Styles of Political Judgment in the Information Age Polity, and Towards Holistic Governance. SUSANNAH RADSTONE is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK, and author of Memory, History, Natio

• Introduction PART 1: EMOTIONS, CONFLICT AND SETTLEMENT: A NEW DURKHEIMIAN APPROACH Rituals Elicit Emotions to Define and Shape Public Life: A Neo-Durkheimian Theory; Perri 6 The Emotions at War: Atrocity as Piacular Rite in Sierra Leone; P.Richards Public Emotion in a Colonial Context: A Case of Spirit-Writing in Taiwan Under Japanese Occupation; S.Feuchtwang PART 2: INTRAPSYCHIC AND 'PUBLIC' EMOTIONS Anxiety, Mass Crisis and 'The Other'; H.Joffe Another Repressed Returns: The Re-Branding of German Psychoanalysis; S.Frosh Surface Tensions: Emotion, Conflict and the Social Containment of Dangerous Knowledge; A.Cooper Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions; M.Rustin PART 3: CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL FORMATIONS OF EMOTION Theory and Affect: Undivided Worlds; S.Radstone Feeling Entitled: HIV, Entitlement Feelings and Citizenship; C.Squire The Future is Not There for the Making: Enduring Colonialism, Shame and Silence; A.Treacher Index