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Imperial Emotions - The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (Hardcover)
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Imperial Emotions - The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in
diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of
the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British
imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or
what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations
across empire. Jane Lydon examines how empathy was produced,
qualified and contested, including via the fear and anger aroused
by frontier violence. She reveals the overlooked emotional
dimensions of relationships constructed between Britain, her
Australasian colonies, and Indigenous people, showing that ideas
about who to care about were frequently drawn from the intimate
domestic sphere, but were also developed through colonial
experience. This history reveals the contingent and highly
politicised nature of emotions in imperial deployment. Moving
beyond arguments that emotions such as empathy are either 'good' or
'bad', this study evaluates their concrete political uses and
effects.
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