Emma Hutchison

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that although emotions play a significant role in world politics they have so far received surprisingly little attention by International Relations scholars and draw on feminist and other interpretive approaches to facilitate cross-disciplinary inquiries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the development of the respective debates and then offer a path forward, arguing that the key challenge is to theorize the processes through which individual emotions become collective and political, and further suggest that this is done best by exploring insights from two seemingly incompatible scholarly tendencies: macro theoretical approaches that develop generalizable propositions about political emotions and micro approaches that investigate how specific emotions function in specific circumstances.

TL;DR: The authors examine how media images of asylum seekers have framed ensuing debates during two crucial periods over the past decade and demonstrate that refugees have primarily been represented as medium or large groups and through a focus on boats, which reinforces a politics of fear that explains why refugees are publicly framed as people whose plight, dire as it is, nevertheless does not generate a compassionate political response.

TL;DR: The authors examines the public significance of emotions, most specifically their role in constituting identity and community in the wake of political violence and trauma, and offers a conceptual engagement with processes of healing and reconciliation, showing that emotions are central to how societies experience and work through the legacy of catastrophe.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role played by representations, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches, in the formation and functioning of political communities after traumatic events, including war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty.