Background: Citizen Science and “The Politics of Emotions” 

“There are so many layers that as a society we are unwilling to hold at all times. We have our own limitations. But I think this time is necessitating the value and importance of hearing everyone’s story. It goes back to what you were saying about what it means that you have to engage with yourself and your privileges. You have to actually see yourself wholly and complexly and all the things that you hold. Then you can actually hold someone else’s full self as well.” 

A., S., Guajardo Johnson, E. (2021). At the Ruptures of Intersectional, Liberational and Decolonization with Birth Worker Eri Guajardo Johnson.
https://www.studioananda.space/2021/09/01/at-the-ruptures-of-intersectional-liberational-and-decolonization-with-birth-worker-eri-guajardo-johnson/ [22-11-06]

 

Lyons, G. (1988). Constructive Criticism. Speaking and Listening More Effectively in Personal Relations, Groups, and Political Activities. A Handbook. Berkeley: Wingbow Press.
→ Recommendation: pp.31-41.

 

Fals-Borda, O., Rahman, M. A. (Eds.) (1988). Action and Knowledge. Breaking the Monopoly with Participatory Action-Research. New York: The Apex Press. 
→ Recommendation: chapter 1 and 11.

 

Rolston, H. (1979). Nature and Human Emotions. In: Miller, F. D., Attig, T. W. (Eds.) Understanding Human Emotions – Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy. Ohio: The Applied Philosophy Program. 89-96.

 

Robertson, C. (2021). Binomial Naming, Binary Thinking. Radicle. [Blog post]. 15 Nov. https://radicle.substack.com/p/binomial-naming-binary-thinking [22-11-06]

 

Boggs, G. L. (2011). Organization Means Commitment. [Pamphlet]. (no place): (no publisher). https://shatteringhegemony.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/organization_means_book_fold_7-8-2012-final.pdf [22-10-26]

 

 

Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (2014). Martha Nussbaum Political Emotions. [Video]. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=87hwtoLfd6I (22-11-06)

 

Lindhult, E. (2021). Budd Hall on Knowledge Democracy. [Video].  https://play.mdh.se/media/t/0_kqdj82ts (22-11-06)

 

What do you feel as you are looking at these art works? What might the artists have felt like? Can you connect to the art works and maybe even to the artists?
(For reasons of copyright images can’t be included here; feel free to go and have a look at the works yourself by visiting the following links.)

Pablo Picasso, Femme assise (Melancholy Woman), 1902-03, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 69,2 cm, Michigan, The Detroit Museum of Art

Sophia Oshodin, Untitled (Strength), 2021, 50,8 x 76,2 cm

Sophia Oshodin, Battle Scars (Movement Series), 2021, 50,8 x 50,8 cm

Sophia Oshodin, Light at the End of the Tunnel, 2021, 45 x 60 cm

Max Ernst, La Joie de vivre (The Joy of Life), 1936, Oil on Canvas, 73,5 x 93 cm, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus, In Mourning and In Rage, 1977, Hybrid Performance Art Piece and Political Protest

Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-06, Oil on Canvas, 176.5 cm × 240.7 cm, Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation

 

Do you know your emotions? Can you spot them on Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions?

 

Maupome, G., Isyutina, O. (2013). Dental Students’ and Faculty Members’ Concepts and Emotions Associated with a Caries Risk Assessment Program. Journal of Dental Education. 77(11), 1477-1487. (Illustration retrieved from p. 1480)

 

Can you name your feelings? Can you speak them? Do you have a language for them?

Lyons, G. (1988). Constructive Criticism. Speaking and Listening More Effectively in Personal Relations, Groups, and Political Activities. A Handbook. Berkeley: Wingbow Press.
→ For better resolution, go and read the pages here.