Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions
About the Book Series
The sociology of emotions has demonstrated the fundamental and pervasive relevance of emotions to all aspects of social life. It is not merely another specialized sub-discipline; rather it aims to reconfigure bases of mainstream sociology. This book series will not only be of interest for specialists in emotions but to sociology at large. It will be a locus for developing enhanced understandings of core problems of sociology, such as power and politics, social interactions and everyday life, macro-micro binaries, social institutions, gender regimes, global social transformations, the state, inequality and social exclusion, identities, bodies and much more.
Series Editors: Mary Holmes and Julie Brownlie
To discuss a book project, please email [email protected] and [email protected]. The Routledge editor in charge of the series is Emily Briggs ([email protected]).
Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South: On Building Solidarity
1st Edition
By Gabriela Silva Loureiro
May 27, 2025
This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered. What are the emotions involved in building and sustaining solidarity? What can ...
Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Cataldi, Gennaro Iorio
May 27, 2024
This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of "Karst River" that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this book offers both theoretical and empirical reflections on social love....
The Political Sociology of Emotions: Essays on Trauma and Ressentiment
1st Edition
By Nicolas Demertzis
February 01, 2022
The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of emotions is coterminous with political sociology ...
Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty
1st Edition
By Lisa Flower
August 06, 2020
Interactional Justice explores how defence lawyers accomplish their role in interaction with others and highlights the ways in which they do loyalty work – constructing and conveying loyalty in emotionally and interactionally constraining situations. By drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldnotes ...
Emotions as Commodities: Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Illouz
June 04, 2019
Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized ...