BISA 2025 Conference

Past and Emotions: Trauma, Nostalgia, and nationalism

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 13:15

1h 30m

Panel Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Description

This panel looks into emotional dynamics that shape and are shaped by trauma, nostalgia, and nationalism.

Subcontributions

• The Trauma Competition: how narratives of the cultural trauma of the communist past are narrated by Bulgarian political elites
• The Global Politics of Scapegoating: Afterlives of International Socialisation
• Stories of Loss: The Common Narratives of Populism in the Context of International Politics
• A New Elizabethan Age: ARIA and the Nostalgic Politics of Anglofuturism
• Emotions, Nationalism, and Minority Experiences: The Case of Armenians from Turkey