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Spaces for feeling differently : emotional experiments in the alternative left in West Germany during the 1970s

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Häberlen, Joachim C. and Tändler, Maik (2017) Spaces for feeling differently : emotional experiments in the alternative left in West Germany during the 1970s. Emotions, Space and Society, 25 . pp. 103-110. doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.005 ISSN 1755-4586.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.005

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Abstract

The article explores emotional practices amongst West German alternative leftists during the 1970s. It argues that leftists engaged in various forms of emotional practices that would allow them to produce feelings they missed in capitalist society. The article interprets these feelings as emotional experiments to feel differently that sometimes succeeded in the sense that they produced the desired feelings, but could also fail. These attempts to produce different feelings were based on a specific emotional knowledge about capitalism, that is an understanding of how capitalism, and specifically capitalist spatial arrangements, produced, regulated and restricted feelings. The emotional knowledge facilitated a variety of experiments that would yield the feelings that leftists missed so dearly under capitalism. The article focuses, first, on a variety of consciousness-raising and therapy groups where people tried to build new intimate relationships, and, second, on demonstrations and festivities that constituted temporal zones of exuberance. In both cases, changing spatial settings was a crucial element for producing different feelings.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Capitalism -- Psychological aspects -- History -- Germany (West)
Journal or Publication Title: Emotions, Space and Society
Publisher: Elsevier BV
ISSN: 1755-4586
Official Date: November 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
November 2017Published
22 February 2017Available
14 November 2016Accepted
Volume: 25
Page Range: pp. 103-110
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.005
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 2 February 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 September 2018
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