This edited collection advances a reconceptualization of state power through emotions. In doing so, it seeks to make a crucial intellectual intervention in the study of the people, images and processes involved in the governance of social marginality in various institutional settings.
This edited collection advances a reconceptualization of state power through emotions. Methodologically, it rethinks the study of the state from the bottom up, by seeking contributions that engage with performances and enactments of state power at the ground level, by frontline staff in direct contact with marginalised populations, and those that reflect on encounters with symbols and practices of state power. Conceptually, it advances a new theory of state power which places values and affects at the heart of its analysis.
In doing so, it seeks to make a crucial intellectual intervention in the study of the people, images and processes involved in the governance of social marginality in various institutional settings – criminal justice, immigration and asylum bureaucracies, the welfare system, the care sector, etc. – to explore how emotions are mobilized, how their expression in contemporary institutional settings of state power connect to broader moral and affective economies, the contradictions, and dilemmas they embody and reproduce, and the implications of these emotionalised forms of governance for state praxis and theory.
The Embodied State will therefore appeal to students and scholars of critical criminology, political sociology, anthropology, migration and border studies, and penology. It will also be of interest to policymakers and professionals involved in these fields.
Introduction Part 1: Representing the State, Mobilising Affect
1. The
Bastille and the French Revolution: Reading an Icon
2. Political Affects and
Embodied States : A Psychoanalytic framework for theorising the embodiment of
state power by state representatives
3. Postracial sentimentality and the
validation of state racism Part 2: Producing the State Through Emotionalised
Governance
4. Manufacturing informants: The emotion work of the Prevent Duty
training
5. Disgust and Punishment in Immigration Detention
6. State Violence
and the Affective Capacity of an Inquest
7. Staging State Embodiment:
Performativity, Emotional Labor, and Recalibrating Dynamic Security in a
Philippine City Jail
8. Premature Revenge: Feud Law Among Prospective Police
Recruits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Part 3: Shifting Emotional Economies of
State Power
9. The emotional landscape of prison managerialism
10. Relational
aspects of prison work and institutional change: reflections on Uruguays
prison reform
11. The Affective Turn in Criminal Process: Stakeholders
Emotional Labour in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Part 4: Unsettling
Institutionalised Emotions
12. Disgust at the Border: Border work as dirty
work
13. Creative emotions: The governance of vulnerability and the caring
ambivalence of arts therapeutic work in prisons
14. Institutionalized helper
interactions and structurally embedded emotions; welfare assistance as a
social form
15. Beyond the courtroom: emotions, affects and embodied senses
of justice in ground-level interventions in the judicialisation of an
environmental disaster
16. In Search of Institutional Affect in Sierra
Leones Prisons Part 5: Navigating Dilemmas of Care and Control
17. Governing
through fear: Affective ambivalences and violence in police work
18.
Embodying the state in probation practice: emotional labour and
self-alienation
19. Circuits of outrage against and within the English state
of homelessness
20. The Prison Reformers Dilemma: Ambivalence, Blocked
Trinity and the Failure of Integration
21. Emotional labour and feminisation
of work: The case of a spontaneous arrival at a refugee camp in Greece
Ana Aliverti is Professor of Law at University of Warwicks Law School. Her research work looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact of such intertwining on criminal justice institutions and on those subject to the resulting set of controls. She has conducted extensive ethnographic work on the police and immigration enforcement, courts and asylum.
Henrique Carvalho is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies at the University of Warwick. His work investigates issues in criminalisation, punishment, state power and justice through dialogues between legal, social, political and cultural theory. Henrique is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).
Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Her research explores the relations between punishment, embodiment, arts and justice. Anastasia is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).
Simon Tawfic is LSE Fellow in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in anthropology (2023) from the London School of Economics, having previously completed the joint honours BA in Anthropology and Law there (2017, First Class). Simon was a postdoctoral research fellow on the Vulnerable State project. His research interests include vulnerability, moral labour on the frontline and the everyday politics of care.
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