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This session will give insights into the manifold ways in public policy to approach emotions while focusing in the second part of the course on the interpretive analysis of emotions as a tool to understand policy processes. The course will outline the theoretical framework that enables such analysis and give an overview of its analytical techniques. The theoretical framework shows that, in public policy scholarship, addressing emotions has been linked to the analysis of knowledge. While interpretive approaches to policy studies have been prominently placed within such analysis of knowledge through language - including its various uses and the structural and power biases that such use implies - they have omitted the role of emotions. Through various examples, the course will show how emotions can, and should, be included in the analysis of knowledge in public policy because they inform and structure policies through meanings actors accord them by expressing, e.g., fear, joy, anger, pride, shame, disgust, or rage. Through these meanings, emotions are categorized in ‘acceptable/legitimate’ or ‘unacceptable/illegitimate’ elements of concrete standpoints and actions and, thus, affect who has a voice and how that voice impacts particular policy debates/policy conflicts. This means interpreting (1) when ‘emotions’ are mentioned, (2) who mentioned them, and (3) what specific rhetorical devices are used to describe them. I will conclude by providing further illustrative examples of how such analysis of emotions can be designed and conducted as a part of research projects.

(AFTERNOON COURSE)

ICPP6 Preconference class