Social Policies and Emotions

This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the place and value of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the assisted citizen.

Presents a systematic view on a sociology of bodies/emotions as a theoretical approach to analyze society? Provides empirical applied research on emotions and social policies, as well as a new theoretical overview about these fields Examines Argentina, Latin America and Global South from a new perspective

Autorentext

Angélica De Sena is Researcher at Research Institute Gino Germani, Social Sciences Faculty, University of Buenos Aires, as well as at the Social Observatory, National University of La Matanza (UNLAM), Argentina.
Adrian Scribano is Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET) at Research Institute Gino Germani, Social Sciences Faculty, University of Buenos Aires, and Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Studies (CIES), Argentina.

Inhalt

1. Social Policies and Emotions: A Look from the Global South.- 2. State, Public Policies and Social Policies: Synthesis of Some Points of Departure.- 3. Social Policies, Bodies/Emotions and Politics of Sensibilities.- 4. Normalized Societies and the Assisted Citizen.- 5. Compensatory Consumption: A New Way of Building Sensibilities from the State?.- 6. Poor Already Hits: The Voice of Violented Women.- 7. Educational Practices and Management of Sensibilities: Learning to Feel.- 8. Universality, Targeting or Massiveness? An Unfinished Discussion.- 9. The Aid as Central Axis of the Politics of the Sensibilities of the Conditional Cash Transfers Programmes.- 10. Weak Bodies: Energy, Food Policies and Depredation of Common Goods.- 11. The Occupability as a Form of Social Policy.