Emotions and Social Change

David Lemmings is Professor of History in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide and "Change" Program Leader in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Ann Brooks is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore, and was previously a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 2011-12. She was Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Adelaide in 2008-11, before becoming part of the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Change Program 2011-17.

• Introduction 1. The Emotional Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences David Lemmings and Ann Brooks 2. Norbert Elias and Emotions in History Robert van Krieken 3. "The Affective Turn" in the Social Sciences and the Gendered Nature of Emotions: Theorizing Emotions in the Social Sciences from 1800 to the Present Ann Brooks Part 1: Identifying Emotional Communities 4. Searching for Emotional Communities in Late Medieval England Melissa Raine 5. The Emotional Economies of Protestant Missions to Aboriginal People in Nineteenth-Century Australia Claire McLisky 6. Mediated Public Emotion: Collective Grief and Australian Natural Disasters Michelle Duffy and Susan Yell Part 2: Emotions and Enlightened Empires: Histories of Contested Emotions 7. Adam Ferguson’s Sociology of Emotion Lisa Hill 8. The Discontents of the Civilizing Process: "Beauty & Booty" and the Problem of Colonial Affect in the American War of 1812 Nicole Eustace 9. Politics and Changing Views of Jealousy in the Antebellum US Michael E. Woods Part 3: Emotions and the Happy Life: The Modern Politics of Emotions 10. Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Resentment Bryan S. Turner 11. Abortion, Selflessness and "Happy Objects" Erica Millar 12. Civilizing Marriage: Norbert Elias, Same-Sex Marriage and the State Carol Johnson Part 4: Trajectories of Civilization and De-Civilization?: Elias, Violence and Regression in Modern Societies 13. Comparative Reflections on The Civilizing Process Peter Mayer 14. Marie Corelli, Shame and the "New Woman" in Fin-de-Siècle Britain Sharon Crozier-De Rosa