Emotions and Power: Habitus and Change in Late Modernity

This book draws on insights from a range of disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, psychology, history and politics to explore the relationship between emotions and social change in late or ‘liquid’ modernity. Using the Republic of Ireland as an illustrative case, the author develops a distinctive theoretical framework, based on a variety of approaches in social theory, to engage with the concept of habitus, and to argue that three concepts – emotion, power and habitus – are central ...