کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7323353 1475634 2014 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Playing the fool: Activists' performances of emotion in policy making spaces
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بازی کردن احمق: اعمال احساسات فعالان در فضای سیاستگذاری
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper draws upon dramaturgical concepts from performance studies scholarship to examine how situated performance and context enmesh with the emotional content of the practices of policy making. Drawing on sociological dramaturgical perspectives, the cultural and literary criticism that inspired them, and in particular Bahktin's concepts of the grotesque and heteroglossia, I investigate the subversive use of humour in policy work as a way of revealing “emotional knowledge” about the issues under discussion. First I set out the way “emotion” was understood by participants in an NGO's programme of policy activities as a mode of knowing the world, and how emotion and rationality were embodied in the forums by activists and civil servants respectively. I take as a case study activists “playing the Fool” within a programme of policy work in which I conducted ethnographic research. These performances, once set within a mise-en-scène that includes furniture, smells, lighting and the physicality of the people involved, create complex, unsettling and intersecting networks of meaning about power and knowledge in policy work. I argue that such a dramaturgical approach to interpreting the work of making policy challenges scholars to accurately represent the multiplicity of meanings of “emotion” at play in any context.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Emotion, Space and Society - Volume 13, November 2014, Pages 16-23
نویسندگان
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