Incarnating Feelings, Constructing Communities

Ana María Forero Angel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.  Her extensive research encompasses the anthropology of emotions and political anthropology and focuses on the military and the state in Colombia. She is the author of The Coronel Does Not Have a Listener: An Anthropological Approach to Military Narratives (2017).Catalina González Quintero is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her research focuses on the intersection of modern philosophy, skepticism, and rhetoric, with particular attention to the emotional mechanisms of rhetoric. She is the author of the forthcoming book Academic Skepticism in the Enlightenment: Cicero in Hume and Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics (expected 2020).Allison B. Wolf is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and previously served as Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Honors Educationat Simpson College, USA. Her research focuses on feminist philosophy and applied ethics, particularly philosophy of immigration in the Americas and feminist bioethics. She is the author of a forthcoming book entitled Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (expected 2020).

• Introduction: A New Approach to Understanding the Nature, Construction, and Experience of Emotions in the Americas.-  PART 1: Teaching Emotions, Learning Emotions:  Exploring Emotions in the Context of Education.- Chapter 1: “Reflections for Research in Emotional Education” in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia.- Chapter 2: Epistemic Pushback and Harm to Educators in University Classrooms in the United States.- Chapter 3: Emotion, Moral Development, and Antiracist Education for Parents in the United States.- PART 2: Expressing Emotions, Repressing Emotions: Experiencing Emotions in the Context of Political Violence.- Chapter 4:  Emotions as Relational Acts.- Chapter 5: “Quit trying to make us feel teary-eyed for the children!” Constructing and Regulating Anger in the Fight for Immigration Justice in the United States.- Chapter 6: “Emotional Events” in War Narratives of Professional Colombian Soldiers.- Chapter 7: Police Operations and Emotional Disturbances:  How Emotional Trackers Support the Military Regime in the Argentine National Gendarmerie.-Conclusion:  Transforming Emotions: A New Theoretical Approach for an Interamerican Trans-Contextual Dialogue.