Description
Literature on vulnerability to increased levels of violence often tends to focus either on individual experiential issues or on societal structures. While the role of emotions in violence and conflict has been researched extensively, little of this work has explored different forms of emotion, and still less has linked emotional experience to the structural level. This theoretical paper asks whether we can utilise emotions research in a way that acknowledges social structures, thus bringing power structures to the fore in the process and content of our research. It does this by developing a framework that integrates psychological insights and a Bourdieusian framework in relation to different forms of shame, exploring how the synthesis of these two distinct areas of theory may open new and rich avenues for enquiry and shed light on processes of violence and non-violence.
