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- Title
Macht der Gefühle.
- Authors
Koschut, Simon
- Abstract
Constructivist approaches in International Relations (IR) often emphasize the importance of language in the construction of reality, identity and power relations. It is sometimes overlooked, however, that the discursive exercise of power through, say, status differentiation is rooted in collective emotions that undergird and reproduce social discourses and identities at the international level. I argue that the inclusion of emotions as an additional category to analyze intersubjectivity allows further questions and meanings to emerge that are often overlooked in constructivist discourse analysis. To this end, this article presents some initial components of emotion-based discourse analysis in IR. Building on process sociology, I show how particular categories of emotion can strengthen relational structures of domination and resistance, but can also lead to the transformation of social hierarchies in world politics. The theoretical and conceptual assumptions are then empirically illustrated using emotion-based power configurations between EU member states and EU candidate countries. Finally, the paper points out some implications of the argument and provides a possible research agenda for constructivist emotion research.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2015, Vol 22, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article