%0 Journal Article
%T Emotions and the everyday: Ambivalence, power and resistance
%A Kate Schick
%J Journal of International Political Theory
%@ 1755-1722
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1755088219829858
%X This special issue on emotions and the everyday represents a provocative intervention in the literature on emotions in International Relations. A strong theme that emerges is the ambivalence of emotions in global politics, which I explore in two parts. First, I explore emotions¡¯ ¡®ambivalent potentiality¡¯ in international politics, highlighting two dimensions: the ways emotions are generated and captured by relations of power and the state to create ¡®willing geopolitical subjects¡¯, and the ways emotions resist power by creating and sustaining ¡®sites of contestation¡¯ that challenge hegemonic emotional regimes. Second, I trace the contributors¡¯ claims regarding the promise and danger of empathy in global politics, maintaining that the special issue highlights the deep ambivalence that attends empathy as well as emotions more generally. I then trouble the notion of empathy as resistance and argue that a more radical and reflexive empathetic engagement could be captured by a greater emphasis on listening and vulnerable interrogation of the self as well as the other
%K Emotions
%K empathy
%K everyday
%K listening
%K micropolitics
%K resistance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1755088219829858