Public Emotions

ANDREW COOPER is Professor of Social Work at the University of East London and the Tavistock Clinic, UK STEFAN FEUCHTWANG is a Professorial Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK STEPHEN FROSH is Pro-Vice-Master, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HELENE JOFFE is a Social and Health Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, University College London, UK PAUL RICHARDS is Chair of Technology and Agrarian Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UK MICHAEL RUSTIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, where he was for ten years Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic, UK

Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power and is a multidisciplinary collaboration showing the emotional character of public life.Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power and is a multidisciplinary collaboration showing the emotional character of public life.