This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist t

Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organisational models th

Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotion

As part of the study of emotions and politics, this book explores connections between affect and cognition and their implications for political evaluation, deci

In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defia