Public Emotions

ANDREW COOPER is Professor of Social Work at the University of East London and the Tavistock Clinic, UKSTEFAN FEUCHTWANG is a Professorial Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKSTEPHEN FROSH is Pro-Vice-Master, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UKHELENE JOFFE is a Social and Health Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, University College London, UKPAUL RICHARDS is Chair of Technology and Agrarian Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UKMICHAEL RUSTIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, where he was for ten years Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic, UK

• Introduction PART 1: EMOTIONS, CONFLICT AND SETTLEMENT: A NEW DURKHEIMIAN APPROACH Rituals Elicit Emotions to Define and Shape Public Life: A Neo-Durkheimian Theory; Perri 6 The Emotions at War: Atrocity as Piacular Rite in Sierra Leone; P.Richards Public Emotion in a Colonial Context: A Case of Spirit-Writing in Taiwan Under Japanese Occupation; S.Feuchtwang PART 2: INTRAPSYCHIC AND 'PUBLIC' EMOTIONS Anxiety, Mass Crisis and 'The Other'; H.Joffe Another Repressed Returns: The Re-Branding of German Psychoanalysis; S.Frosh Surface Tensions: Emotion, Conflict and the Social Containment of Dangerous Knowledge; A.Cooper Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions; M.Rustin PART 3: CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL FORMATIONS OF EMOTION Theory and Affect: Undivided Worlds; S.Radstone Feeling Entitled: HIV, Entitlement Feelings and Citizenship; C.Squire The Future is Not There for the Making: Enduring Colonialism, Shame and Silence; A.Treacher Index