What is it about?
Emotions play an important role in forming, reproducing and challenging nationalism, how do emotions mediate in interactions between majority and minority populations? This paper shows anxiet(ies) over one's belonging help reproducing nationalist sensibilities.
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This paper goes beyond the existing homogenous and linear accounts of the role of emotions in nationalism. Its focus on how emotions mediate human interactions against the background of knowledge struggles about violent events such as genocide is a unique contribution.
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I hope this article draws attention to the relational aspects of emotions in nationalism. Because it is often that one group's fear might be another's pride, and that these opposing emotions play a role in perpetuating certain understandings of national identity. I very much hope that you find this article thought-provoking.
Sinem Adar
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This page is a summary of: Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study, Sociological Forum, May 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/socf.12441.
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