Flinders, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-9010 (2020) Why feelings trump facts : anti-politics, citizenship and emotion. Emotions and Society, 2 (1). pp. 21-40. ISSN 2631-6897
Abstract
This article seeks to explore and emphasise the role of emotions as a key variable in terms of understanding both the rise of anti-political sentiment and its manifestation in forms of ethno-populism. It argues that the changing emotional landscape has generally been overlooked in analyses that seek to comprehend contemporary social and political change. This argument matters, not only due to the manner in which it challenges dominant interpretations of the populist signal but also because it poses more basic questions about the limits of knowledge and evidential claims in an increasingly polarised, fractious and emotive contemporary context. The core argument concerning the existence of an emotional disconnection and why ‘feelings trump facts’ is therefore as significant for social and political scientists as it is for politicians and policy makers.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Policy Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Emotions and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | anchorage; anti-politics; citizenship; emotions; imagination; populism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2020 10:08 |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2021 17:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Policy Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1332/263168919x15761256384386 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157020 |