Conclusion

Abstract

Throughout this book and in various relevant publications it has been repeatedly reported that emotions have been ever-present in politics despite the longstanding neglect by academic researchers. The ‘affective turn’ that is taking place in the entirety of humanities and social sciences since early 1990s elevates the role of emotionality in social and political analysis making up for the non-emotions period in mainstream sociological analysis (Barbalet, 1998, p. 19). It seems that the long passage from passions to interests, designating the modern reign of rationality over the disturbances of an undisciplined soul (Hirschman, 1977) is reversed back as our late (or post) modern era nurtures a passageway from interests to emotions.