The Embodied State Emotions State Power And Social Marginalisation | Criminology & Criminal Justice

This edited collection advances a reconceptualisation of state power through emotions. Methodologically it rethinks the study of the state from the bottom up by seeking contributions that engage with performances and enactments of state power at the ground level by frontline staff in direct contact with marginalised populations and those that reflect on encounters with symbols and practices of state power. Conceptually it advances a new theory of state power which places values and affects at the heart of its analysis. In doing so it seeks to make a crucial intellectual intervention in the study of the people images and processes involved in the governance of social marginality in various institutional settings – criminal justice immigration and asylum bureaucracies the welfare system the care sector etc. – to explore how emotions are mobilised how their expression in contemporary institutional settings of state power connects to broader moral and affective economies the contradictions and dilemmas they embody and reproduce and the implications of these emotionalised forms of governance for state praxis and theory. The Embodied State will therefore appeal to students and scholars of critical criminology political sociology anthropology migration and border studies and penology. It will also be of interest to policymakers and professionals involved in these fields. |The Embodied State Emotions State Power and Social Marginalisation | Criminology & Criminal Justice