Public pedagogies and global emoscapes - Pedagogies: An International Journal - 0 views
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Bill Brydon on 07 May 11It is now well recognized that public pedagogies help to inform the ways in which people engage and transform both culture and politics. But the roles of globalization and of emotions are under-researched in the literature on such pedagogies. Through a discussion of the notion of emotional geography and the emotional dimensions of globalization we argue that globalized emotions are central to such pedagogies. In so-doing we introduce our notion of "emoscapes". This helps us to consider the diverse and intersecting scales and flows of the emotional geographies of globalization. Through the case of the global financial crisis, we show how emotions enter and influence mediascapes, ideoscapes and financescapes. Using cameo studies of YouTube videos (film, anime, videos) and performance protest, we identify a range of emotional registers involved. We point to the mobilization of the greed creed and consumer Darwinism, both of which involve selfish desires, distraction and political inaction. But we also show how the public pedagogies associated with the global financial crisis can involve other emotions that challenge such emotional geographies mobilizing mood as a form of resistant political intervention.