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Emotions, Otherness and Social Conflicts
Abstract Submissions Closed
WG08 Society and Emotions (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
The capitalism transformations on a global scale imply reconfigurations on the ways that intersubjective relationship, their meanings and articulations are assumed. The processes of "mercantilization of life" that characterize the 21st Century, the different forms of violence, racism and discrimination, precarious work and dwelling, as well as the intersubjective and institutional ties that are recreated with the expansion of consumption in neoliberal economies, just to mention some of most significant problems, suppose the emergence of practices and social conflicts that force us to actualize the approaches to study of otherness as a central sociological and political category.
A critical reflection on otherness means delving into the forms, directions and intensities that the I-You / We-They relationship acquires today. It is analytically rethinking the characteristics assumed by the social bond in the context of societies increasingly traversed by individuation, fragmentation and self-responsibility, examining the social practices and norms that daily construct the "other" as a threat. In times of deep uncertainty and extreme levels of social inequality, the analysis of the different forms, presences, and conflictual relationships associated with the "other" is an unavoidable problem for current studies of the sociology of emotions.
In this context, the purpose of this Session is to share research results and promote dialogues between different theoretical, methodological and epistemological perspectives that pose otherness as a substantive articulation standpoint for the approach of contemporary social emotions and conflicts.