Emotions as commodities : capitalism, consumption and authenticity

Author(s)

• Illouz, Eva

Bibliographic Information

Emotions as commodities : capitalism, consumption and authenticity

edited by Eva Illouz

（Routledge studies in the sociology of emotions / edited by Mary Holmes and Julie Brownlie, 2）

Routledge, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional? Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts and emotional life have become closely and inseparably intertwined with each other, each one defining and enabling the other. Commodities facilitate the experience of emotions, and so emotions are converted into commodities. The contributors of this volume present the co-production of emotions and commodities as a new type of commodity that has gone unseen and unanalyzed by theories of consumption - emodity. Indeed, this innovative book explores how emodity includes atmospherical or mood-producing commodities, relation-marking commodities and mental commodities, all of which the purpose it is to change and improve the self. Analysing a variety of modern day situations such as emotional management through music, creation of urban sexual atmospheres and emotional transformation through psychotherapy, Emotions as Commodities will appeal to scholars, postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, Marketing, Anthropology and Consumer Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Emodities or the Making of Emotional Commodities Eva Illouz Part I: Liberating the Self: Emotional Experiences and Moods "It is All Included - Without the Stress": Exploring the Production of Relaxation in Club Med Seaside Resorts Yaara Benger Alaluf Emotional Ear Drops: the Music Industry and Technologies of Emotional Management Ori Schwarz Cinema as an Emotional Commodity- the Horror Genre and the Commodification of Fear Daniel Gilon Sex cards in Tel Aviv: Mood work, Recreational Sexuality and Urban atmospheres Dana Kaplan Part II: Ideal of Intimacy: Relational Emotions Understanding Authenticity in Commercial Sentiment: The Greeting Card as Emotional Commodity Emily West Part III: The Ideal of Mental Health and Self-Improvement: Emotional Self-Monitoring as Commodity (Ex)changing Feelings: On the Commodification of Emotions in Psychotherapy Mattan Shachak "Psytizens", or the Construction of Happy Individuals in Neoliberal Societies Edgar Cabanas Toward a Post Normative Critique of Emotional Authenticity: Conclusion Eva Illouz

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC08480145
• ISBN:
  • 9780367354985
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 222 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HF5415.32
  • DC23 : 658.8/342
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Consumer behavior
  • LCSH : Emotions -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Commercial products -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Commercial products -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Commodification
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB29771499