Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements

by Francesca Polletta and James M. Jasper

Book Overview

Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and organizational models that dominate academic political analysis.

With this new collection of essays, Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger, indignation, fear, disgust, joy, and love into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226303993
• ISBN13: 9780226303994
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"