Emotions, Recognition, Symbolic Politics and Support for the Radical Right

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel brings together experts who are studying the emotional appeal of the radical right in various contexts and from different disciplinary perspectives. A myriad of emotions have been linked to this phenomenon, including nostalgia, racial resentment, loss of status, humiliation, feeling displaced, and deservingness. Affective polarization happens on the left and the right, while many stay away from politics because they associate it with toxicity, drama, corruption, and fear. Participants will provide a brief diagnostic before exchanging about the kinds of interventions that social scientists can make as we face the mounting influence of the radical right.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Philip S. Gorski, Yale University

Panelists

• Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam

• Noam Gidron, Hebrew University

• Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

• Gary Younge, University of Manchester

Session Organizers

• Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

• Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam