Incarnating Feelings, Constructing Communities: Experiencing Emotions via Education, Violence, and Public Policy in the Americas

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.

   

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 Educationat 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).