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To examine how emotional appeals operate as mechanisms of governance and power in Western responses to the post-9/11 War on Terror.

October 1, 2005Sociology

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To examine how emotional appeals operate as mechanisms of governance and power in Western responses to the post-9/11 War on Terror.
Analyzed print media coverage of the 2003 anti-war peace demonstration in London and the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Applied theoretical frameworks on power, social solidarity, and judgment from Foucault, Durkheim, Arendt, and Nussbaum.
State attempts to guide public conduct through emotional framing yielded unpredictable and divergent civic reactions.
Emotions operating within political power structures functioned ambivalently, generating active resistance and dissent in addition to public compliance.

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Qualitative discourse analysis reveals ambivalent emotional dynamics in post-9/11 Western societies, demonstrating that government emotional appeals trigger civic resistance alongside compliance.

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Ian Burkitt (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a10a0bc01be78fe8161229c https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038505056027

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Qualitative discourse analysis reveals ambivalent emotional dynamics in post-9/11 Western societies, demonstrating that government emotional appeals trigger civic resistance alongside compliance.

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