Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics: Negotiating Truth - Couverture rigide

Durnová, Anna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788114817 ISBN 13 : 9781788114813

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

An insightful lens into the contemporary state of post-factual politics, this timely book explores the perceived binary nature of facts and emotions, suggesting ways to integrate them. Anna Durnová shows that in order to understand post-factual politics, we must unveil the role of emotion in the discursive registers through which politics is constructed and knowledge is legitimized.

By analysing and comparing scientists' protests against the Trump presidency with famous scientific controversies in modern medicine, this book redefines truth as a negotiation in public discourse between the interplay of values, beliefs and facts. Chapters examine the ways in which people see emotions as being opposed to facts, unpacking how this ultimate opposition limits public discussion on science in the wake of alternative facts and 'fake news'.

Political science students and academics will find the new discussion of post-factual politics through the lens of emotions a timely and important read. This book is also ideal for social movements scholars with the March for Science a key case study used to examine the gap between emotions and facts in modern day times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Durnová, Professor of Political Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788114817
• ISBN 13: 9781788114813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible