This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious
politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological,
theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of
emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As
such, it addresses three distinct but related questions: what do
emotions do to mobilisations? What do mobilisations do to emotions?
Further, what does studying emotions in mobilisations reveal about
the political culture of protest in South Asia? The chapters in
this volume emphasise that emotions are significant in politics
because they have the power to mobilise. They explore a variety of
emotions including anger, resentment, humiliation, hurt, despair,
and nostalgia, and also enchantment, humour, pleasure, hope and
enthusiasm. The interdisciplinary research presented here shows
that integrating emotions improves our understanding of South Asian
politics while, conversely, focusing on South Asia helps retool
current thinking on the emotional dynamics of political
mobilisations. The book offers contextual analyses of how emotions
are publicly represented, expressed and felt, thus shedding light
on the complex nature of protests, power relations, identity
politics, and the political culture of South Asia. This
cutting-edge research volume intersects South Asian studies,
emotion studies and social movement studies, and will greatly
interest scholars and students of political science, anthropology,
sociology, history and cultural studies, and the informed general
reader interested in South Asian politics.
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