Full Description
This edited collection advances a reconceptualization of state power through emotions. Methodologically, it rethinks the study of the state from the bottom up, by seeking contributions that engage with performances and enactments of state power at the ground level, by frontline staff in direct contact with marginalised populations, and those that reflect on encounters with symbols and practices of state power. Conceptually, it advances a new theory of state power which places values and affects at the heart of its analysis.
In doing so, it seeks to make a crucial intellectual intervention in the study of the people, images and processes involved in the governance of social marginality in various institutional settings - criminal justice, immigration and asylum bureaucracies, the welfare system, the care sector, etc. - to explore how emotions are mobilized, how their expression in contemporary institutional settings of state power connect to broader moral and affective economies, the contradictions, and dilemmas they embody and reproduce, and the implications of these emotionalised forms of governance for state praxis and theory.
The Embodied State will therefore appeal to students and scholars of critical criminology, political sociology, anthropology, migration and border studies, and penology. It will also be of interest to policymakers and professionals involved in these fields.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Representing the State, Mobilising Affect 1. The Bastille and the French Revolution: Reading an Icon 2. Political Affects and Embodied States : A Psychoanalytic framework for theorising the embodiment of state power by state representatives 3. Postracial sentimentality and the validation of state racism Part 2: Producing the State Through Emotionalised Governance 4. Manufacturing informants: The emotion work of the Prevent Duty training 5. Disgust and Punishment in Immigration Detention 6. State Violence and the Affective Capacity of an Inquest 7. Staging State Embodiment: Performativity, Emotional Labor, and Recalibrating Dynamic Security in a Philippine City Jail 8. Premature Revenge: Feud Law Among Prospective Police Recruits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Part 3: Shifting Emotional Economies of State Power 9. The emotional landscape of prison managerialism 10. Relational aspects of prison work and institutional change: reflections on Uruguay's prison reform 11. The Affective Turn in Criminal Process: Stakeholders' Emotional Labour in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Part 4: Unsettling Institutionalised Emotions 12. Disgust at the Border: Border work as dirty work 13. Creative emotions: The governance of vulnerability and the caring ambivalence of arts therapeutic work in prisons 14. Institutionalized helper interactions and structurally embedded emotions; welfare assistance as a social form 15. Beyond the courtroom: emotions, affects and embodied senses of justice in ground-level interventions in the judicialisation of an environmental disaster 16. In Search of Institutional Affect in Sierra Leone's Prisons Part 5: Navigating Dilemmas of Care and Control 17. Governing through fear: Affective ambivalences and violence in police work 18. Embodying the state in probation practice: emotional labour and self-alienation 19. Circuits of outrage against and within the English state of homelessness 20. The Prison Reformer's Dilemma: Ambivalence, Blocked Trinity and the Failure of Integration 21. Emotional labour and feminisation of work: The case of a 'spontaneous arrival' at a refugee camp in Greece
