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

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Force of Emotions
	1 Organization of the Book
	References
Part I: Emotional Communities in Contexts of Violence
	Chapter 2: The Emotional Turn in Colombian Experiences of Violence
		1 Introduction
		2 An Overview of the History of Research on Emotions
		3 The Emotional Turn: Emotions as Relational Acts in the Operation of Social Structures
		4 Body and Soul in Transdisciplinary Research
		5 First Encounter with Emotions: Parental Punishment as a Way to Correct Behavior and Teach Respect
		6 Second Encounter with Emotions: Emotive Configuration in Crimes of Passion
		7 Third Encounter with Emotions: Emotional Communities in Reconstructing Social Life
		References
	Chapter 3: Understanding Emotions in Members of Societally Powerful Institutions: Emotional Events and Communities in the Narratives of Colombian Soldiers
		1 Introduction
		2 Emotional Narratives and Communities
		3 Joining the Institution
			3.1 Strategies to Join the Institution: Moral Motivations and Cheating Your Way In
			3.2 “I No Longer Remember Life as a Civilian: I Am Who I Am Now”: The Emergence of a Military Identity
		4 Learning How to Kill: The Soldier’s “Change of Mentality”
		5 The War that “Sticks to” the Soldiers: Narratives of the Future as a Civilian
		6 Conclusions
		References
Part II: Teaching Emotions: White Fragility and the Emotional Weight of Epistemic Resistance
	Chapter 4: Moral Development and Racial Education: How We Socialize White Children and Construct White Fragility
		1 Introduction
		2 White Fragility
		3 Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue Cultivation and the Construction of White Fragility
			3.1 Fear and Cultivating White Fragility
			3.2 Cultivating White Privilege, Vices of Domination, and White Fragility
		4 Constructing an Alternative to White Fragility
		References
	Chapter 5: Epistemic Pushback and Harm to Educators
		1 Introduction
		2 Philosophy, Vulnerability, and Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback
			2.1 Privilege-Evasive Epistemic Pushback and Differential Damage
			2.2 Devising Strategies for Damage Control
		References
Part III: Constructing Emotions in Public Policy and Discourse
	Chapter 6: “Quit Trying to Make Us Feel Teary-Eyed for the Children!” Constructions of Emotion, Anger, and Immigration Injustice
		1 Introduction
			1.1 Family Separation in the United States
			1.2 Reason/Emotion and Family Separation
			1.3 Feminist Accounts of Anger and How It Is Operating in the Debate on Family Separation in the United States
		2 Nussbaum on Anger
			2.1 Nussbaum’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Debate
				The Anger of the Policy’s Supporters
			2.2 Nussbaum’s Account and the Policy’s Critics
			2.3 Limitations of Nussbaum’s Account for Understanding the Construction, Regulation, and Expression of Anger in the Family Separation Debate in the United States
		3 Lorde on Anger
			3.1 Lorde’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Policy Debate
		4 Frye on Anger
			4.1 Frye’s Account of Anger and the Family Separation Policy Debate
		5 How Is This All Occurring? Exploring Techniques Used to Construct and Regulate Anger in the Context of the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
			5.1 Silencing Practices
			5.2 Fighting Immigration Injustice by Promoting Anger on Behalf of Immigrants
		References
	Chapter 7: Staging Guilt and Forgiveness in Colombian Mass Media: Transactional Forgiveness and the Effacement of Victims
		1 Introduction
		2 The Performance: A Transactional Script for Guilt and Forgiveness
		3 The Offender: The Leading Role in the Show of Repentance and Guilt
		4 The Victims: The Supporting Role and the Eclipsing Forgiveness
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Awkward Ruins: Topophilia and the Narratives of Stripping in Santiago and Bogotá
		1 Introduction
		2 Villa San Luis, Santiago de Chile
			2.1 1970–2020
			2.2 Socialist Utopia
			2.3 Eviction and Stripping
			2.4 Monumentalize to Save
			2.5 Memory, Art, and Mourning
			2.6 A Museum in the Ruins of Utopia
		3 The “L” or Bronx Street, Bogotá
			3.1 2001–2020
			3.2 Renovate Oblivion
			3.3 Art, Drugs, and Memories of the Scrap
			3.4 A Museum in the Ruins of Heterotopia
		4 Conclusions
		References