Angry Abolitionists And The Rhetoric Of Slavery: Moral Emotions In Social Movements (cultural Sociology)
by Benjamin Lamb-Books /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book is an original application of rhetoric and
moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It
promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements
are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum
over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural
sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human
emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book
revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that
can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions
in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional
power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist
performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries
contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over
American slavery.
This book is an original application of rhetoric and
moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It
promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements
are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum
over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural
sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human
emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book
revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that
can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions
in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional
power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist
performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries
contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over
American slavery.