ERIC Number: EJ1292459
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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The Affective Dimension of Far Right Rhetoric in the Classroom: The Promise of Agonistic Emotions and Affects in Countering Extremism
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v42 n2 p267-281 2021
This essay draws on the concept of "agonistic emotions" and "affects" to think with some of the arguments of Chantal Mouffe's political theory and discusses what this means pedagogically in handling far right rhetoric in the classroom. To show the possibilities of this theorization of agonistic emotions and affects, the essay puts in conversation Mouffe's work on agonistic pluralism with post-Deleuzian affect theory. I make an argument that post-Deleuzian affect theory enables the theorization of agonistic emotions and affects as an intersection of language, desire, power, bodies, and politics that can be engaged with and channeled democratically in classroom debates. The essay leans on Mouffe's work and post-Deleuzian affect theory to make a political and pedagogical intervention into the terrain of countering extremism in education. This intervention offers a theoretical and pedagogical way of addressing the tensions emerging from the affective dimension of far right rhetoric in classroom spaces.
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Educational Philosophy, Emotional Response, Teaching Methods, Antisocial Behavior, Affective Behavior, Classroom Communication, Debate, Language Usage, Power Structure, Psychological Patterns, Democracy, Intervention, Racial Bias, Social Bias, Stranger Reactions, Role of Education, Self Concept
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Language: English
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