This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias’s theory of the "civilizing process," through historical essays and contemporary analysis

This book discusses different ways in which the cross-roads between emotions and resistance can be theorised. While the sociological field focuses primarily on

Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.

Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organisational models th

The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgenc