The concept of ‘lived experience’ has become increasingly important in activities such as campaigning, research, and policy design. Concurrently, and in slight contrast, ‘framing approaches’, have also become more popular. Whilst empirical work around emotions within social policy development remains limited, there have recently been a number of calls for compassion, kindness, and hope to form the basis of political and policy-related discussions. In this article, we explore the relatively simultaneous emergence and increasing profile of these three topics. We note tensions, contradictions, and generalisations within and between them, examining anti-poverty activities in the UK and the Talking about poverty ( TaP ) project between JRF and Frameworks as an exemplar. Drawing widely on literature relating to anger, we question the absence of this emotion in many of the stories of poverty and hardship presented by campaigners, researchers, and policymaking organisations.
Crossley et al. (Thu,) studied this question.