EUMOTION seeks to understand: Case Study on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine As a case study, EUMOTION will focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2022). The project has three core objectives. First, it will establish a new framework of analysis for tracing how official emotions frame the EU’s (in-)action during crises and the implications of official… Read more

Political actors within and beyond Europe are grappling with the existential challenges raised by the global climate emergency. On the one hand, there has been an upsurge in climate activism epitomised by Fridays for the Future, School Strikes for the Climate, and Extinction Rebellion. On the other, populist and far-right actors continue to deny the… Read more

Workshop of ACES project ‘Emotions in European Politics’  Organizers and chairs: Linda Bos, Hanna L. Muehlenhoff, Rosa Sanchez Salgado and Andrew Telford  Emotions matter in international politics. For example, fear, anger but also empathy shape European political responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Although scholarship in International Relations and Political Geography has long acknowledged the role of… Read more

EU feels presented a paper on emotions and Othering dynamics in a European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Session on ‘Emotions and norms in EU crisis diplomacy’ held in Edinburgh (and online) from April 20th-22nd.   Our paper proposes a theorisation of Othering and emotion norms, drawing on feminist, postcolonial and Intergroup Emotion theories. We… Read more

EU feels presented a paper about emotions and Othering dynamics in the Conference organized by the Research Network on Sociology of Emotions of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Hamburg in September 2022.   Current academic studies about Othering dynamics in foreign policy do not discuss explicitly the role of emotions in Othering processes. To fill in this… Read more