Dear Colleagues, tomorrow for those attending AAA Annual Meeting, 4PM @
Marquette VIII (Hilton room), an event that might interest some of you,
since it seems the topic has become even more relevant and up to date than
it was few months ago.

With a shiny cast of (almost) young people: Jimmy Palomera, Jaume
Franquesa, Nitzam Shoshan, Ben Teitelbaum, Eszter Bartha, Eleanor Finley,
Giacomo Loperfido

Session Abstract: While indignado movement seem to be reviving in yet
another national form in France, Greek farmers were photographed beating
ruthlessly anti-riot equipped (yet helpless) policemen of Syriza
government. Farmers anger about the removal of milk-quotas has been going
on for some time all over the Euro-zone, while even in Russia, the latest
cycle of truck drivers mobilizations has drawn attention on the previously
unthought-of possibility of Putin’s stronghold on the country being
jeopardised by oil crisis and actual recession. At the same time, while
terrorism is riding Europe again, both anti-immigrant parties and radical
islamist formations seem to be capitalising on each others relation to the
refugee crisis and on the rise of anti-immigrants feelings all over the
continent, in order to recrute new emotionally committed adepts. Even the
institutional order seems to be slowly capitulating to the “empire of
emotions” (Godin), as angry or “indignant” anti- establishment parties from
both left and right have gotten to governmental positions at different
state levels (Poland’s PiS, Italy’s M5S, Germany’s Afd, France’s FN), while
others seem about to be (Swedish Democrats, or the Dutch PVV). While anger
and emotions seem to have become the new engine of political interactions
all over the european continent (Kalb, 2011; Mouffe; 2005; Ost: 2006, 2015;
Zizek; 2000, 2008), this turn of events is disquieting, since the
re-articulation of politics through emotional registers appears to put
citizens, after all, in a passive position of reacting rather than acting.
To say it with Jean-Paul Sartre - “la conscience qui s’émeut ressemble à
la conscience qui s’endort”, and the spectre of fascism doesn’t seem to be
that far away any more. This panel tries to link this emergence of
“emotional politics” with the notion of social risk, and its connection
with regressive economic processes and structural disturbances of critical
proportions. The decline in European agriculture, the disruption of trade,
and the decay of market oriented industry in favour of a financialized,
rent driven economy, have made national populations aware of the rapid
verticalization of societies, as their material conditions of existence
degrade. Fear of loosing what little is left seems to mobilise “gut
feelings” of competition against increasingly essentialized “others”. But,
how and where do risk, anger and politics articulate? The panel asks how
are the diverse economic outcomes of the present crisis framed as
“evidence” of the malevolence of the political class. How and when, and in
what context of material transformations do spontaneous movements arise?
How do they make sense of the relation between multi-scalar economic
transformations, and both global and local hierarchies of power? Do these
“reactions” to economic and political change get established as parties,
and how? Is there a constitutive relation between economic crisis and
political forces? What does the expanding success of anger in actual
political interactions relate to, and how does it frame and legitimises the
institutionalization of new political formations?

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