Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman

Feeling It/Not Feeling It: Mood Stories as Accounts of Political Intuition

As political scholars move beyond overwhelmingly cognitivist and rationalist accounts of political behaviour and attend to the affective conditions that frame it, there remains a conspicuous lack of consensus about how to describe distinctive affective phenomena.

Moods as Forms of Political Meaning

The working of the market can be represented in descriptive terms, but beyond such empirical representation lies an affective ‘horizon that … can never come into view as such’