Historicizing emotional development
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Historicizing emotional development. / Vallgårda, Karen Asta Arnfred; Olsen, Stephanie.
The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. ed. / Daniel Dukes; Andrea C. Samson; Eric A. Walle. Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 146-156.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Historicizing emotional development
AU - Vallgårda, Karen Asta Arnfred
AU - Olsen, Stephanie
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This chapter argues that emotions are biocultural and historically contingent phenomena. Our emotional experience is inextricably linked to the words we use to describe our emotions, to the values we attach to them, and to the embodied cultural codes of comportment and expression. The chapter challenges the idea that we can meaningfully speak of “emotional development” in historical contexts in which “emotions” were not yet invented, and introduces the concept of “formation” as a historically sensitive alternative. This concept helps us grasp the historicity of growth and change in collectives, as well as in individuals’ affective lives. Emotional formation is the process through which codes of emotions are learned and imparted, often unwittingly, through discourse and practice. In order to demonstrate the methodological utility of the concept, the chapter then exemplifies processes of emotional formation in children and youth in two different historical and geographical contexts.
AB - This chapter argues that emotions are biocultural and historically contingent phenomena. Our emotional experience is inextricably linked to the words we use to describe our emotions, to the values we attach to them, and to the embodied cultural codes of comportment and expression. The chapter challenges the idea that we can meaningfully speak of “emotional development” in historical contexts in which “emotions” were not yet invented, and introduces the concept of “formation” as a historically sensitive alternative. This concept helps us grasp the historicity of growth and change in collectives, as well as in individuals’ affective lives. Emotional formation is the process through which codes of emotions are learned and imparted, often unwittingly, through discourse and practice. In order to demonstrate the methodological utility of the concept, the chapter then exemplifies processes of emotional formation in children and youth in two different historical and geographical contexts.
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.25
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.25
M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi
SN - 9780198855903
SP - 146
EP - 156
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development
A2 - Dukes, Daniel
A2 - Samson, Andrea C.
A2 - Walle, Eric A.
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -
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