Incarnating Feelings, Constructing Communities

Attempting to connect the academic discussion around the anthropology and philosophy of the emotions to real-life, everyday experiences, this collection brings together concrete cases and situations arising from specific social and political contexts throughout the Americas. In particular, the authors explore how emotions are generated, constructed, discovered, manipulated, and experienced throughout the Americas by exploring undertheorized topics ranging from investigating the emotional lives of prisoners in Colombia and Brazil who have committed crimes of passion, to Colombian soldiers' experiences of core emotional events, to the role of emotions in immigration policy in the United States, to how emotions affect educators' abilities to teach certain material. Taken as a whole, this innovative, interdisciplinary, collection of original essays is not merely comparative, but rather seeks to bring voices and methodologies from North and South America into conversation to generateinnovative analyses and ways to reflect about emotions in response to violence, state policies, and educational systems.

Brings together philosophical and social scientific approaches to the emotions to explore the nature of emotions and their effects on everyday life throughout the Americas Demonstrates how emotions are constructed and function both in theory and in practice by focusing on specific examples and wide-spread contexts of violence, public policy, and education Brings to the fore inquiries into emotion in Latin America, creating new connections in research that has traditionally centered on U.S. and European contexts

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Ana María Forero Angel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her extensive research encompasses the anthropology of emotions and political anthropology and focuses on the military and the state in Colombia. She is the author of The Coronel Does Not Have a Listener: An Anthropological Approach to Military Narratives (2017).

Catalina González Quintero is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her research focuses on the intersection of modern philosophy, skepticism, and rhetoric, with particular attention to the emotional mechanisms of rhetoric. She is the author of the forthcoming book Academic Skepticism in the Enlightenment: Cicero in Hume and Kant's Critique of Metaphysics (expected 2020).

Allison B. Wolf is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and previously served as Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Honors Education at Simpson College, USA. Her research focuses on feminist philosophy and applied ethics, particularly philosophy of immigration in the Americas and feminist bioethics. She is the author of a forthcoming book entitled Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (expected 2020).

Inhalt
Introduction: A New Approach to Understanding the Nature, Construction, and Experience of Emotions in the Americas.- PART 1: Teaching Emotions, Learning Emotions: Exploring Emotions in the Context of Education.- Chapter 1: Reflections for Research in Emotional Education in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia.- Chapter 2: Epistemic Pushback and Harm to Educators in University Classrooms in the United States.- Chapter 3: Emotion, Moral Development, and Antiracist Education for Parents in the United States.- PART 2: Expressing Emotions, Repressing Emotions: Experiencing Emotions in the Context of Political Violence.- Chapter 4: Emotions as Relational Acts.- Chapter 5: Quit trying to make us feel teary-eyed for the children! Constructing and Regulating Anger in the Fight for Immigration Justice in the United States.- Chapter 6: Emotional Events in War Narratives of Professional Colombian Soldiers.- Chapter 7: Police Operations and Emotional Disturbances: How Emotional Trackers Support the Military Regime in the Argentine National Gendarmerie.-Conclusion: Transforming Emotions: A New Theoretical Approach for an Interamerican Trans-Contextual Dialogue.