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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley (sample)
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Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability.
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Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is behind the seeming rise of public emotionalism and the focus on mental health?
How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why?
What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students?
Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling?
Or is it emotion ersatz, instrumentalised, superficial, sentimentalised?
How does a...