Affective contestation: Dynamics of a contested emotional politics in European migration policy (D04*)

• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

The project examines the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, emotional repertoires communicated and mobilized by state institutions in the EU and, on the other hand, articulations of emotions by activist networks (“affects from below”) that question the emotional politics of state authorities. The project defines emotional politics as political discourses and practices that address, cultivate, manipulate or mimic emotions and emotional expressions for political purposes.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Simon Koschut