Overview

As nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as though the world has entered a period characterized by pessimism, cynicism and anxiety. This edited collection challenges individualized understandings of emotion, revealing how they relate to cultural, economic and political realities in difficult times. Combining numerous empirical studies and theoretical developments from around the world, the diverse contributors explore how dystopian visions of the future influence, and are influenced by, the emotions of an anxious and precarious present. This is an original investigation into the changing landscape of emotion in dark and uncertain times.

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By treating emotions through the prism of temporality, and exploring how future visions inform senses of the present and understandings of the past, this important book plots a powerful new research trajectory. Jack Barbalet, Australian National University Dystopian Emotions is not a bleak sermon on the end of the world. These essays recognize how an array of emotions can help us navigate or avoid potentially dark futures. Mary Holmes, University of Edinburgh

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Jordan McKenzie is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Roger Patulny is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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