Emotions and Transglobalization

Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Location: SJES022 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Distributed Paper
Adrian SCRIBANO, CONICET, Argentina
This paper attempts to systematise the prevalent emotions whose
recurrence is associated with the Anthropocene in the context of trans-globalization. To
achieve this objective, the following line of argument is elaborated: a) what is meant by
emotions, emotional ecologies and politics of sensibilities is defined, b) the theoretical
tensions between the Anthropocene, Capitalocene and trans-globalization are
synthesised, c) the emotional ecologies that appear associated with the ecological
crisis are identified from empirical research, d) some politics of sensibilities aresystematised and e) an agenda for the Humanities is discussed as life sciences that
can make the process described from the critical sociology of bodies/emotions.
It concludes by advocating the construction of a sociology of bodies/emotions that
makes analysis the states of environmental scarcity and the sensations of
dispossession associated with them critical within the framework of catastrophic
capitalism.