BISA 2025 Conference

Emotions, Subjectivity and Fantasy

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Copenhagen, Europa Hotel (Copenhagen, Europa Hotel)

Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Description

This panel looks into the intersection between ontological security and emotions/affect by exploring key concepts of subjectivity and fantasy.

Subcontributions

• Ontological security and the cruel optimism of a bordered world
• Self-trust, fantasies, and knowledge: the emotional dimensions of US’s India Policy
• From Peaceful Protests to Battlefield: Emotional Bonds and Revolutionary Subjectivity Among Syrian Fighters
• Boredom in World Politics: Call for Transgression Against the Liberal International Order?
• The fantasy of the successful intervention: Ten years of intervention failure in the Sahel and the meaning making of staff