Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy - Paperback

by V. Nicol (Author)

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency which drastically nuances the commonly held view that fear has predominantly irrational, morally, or ideologically suspect effects which thwart the exercise of autonomy.

Author Biography

VALÉRIE DE COURVILLE NICOL Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.