Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power and is a multidisciplinary collaboration showing the emotional character of public life.

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