Care and emotions: : discourses, practices and experiences

Maria Claudia Coelho; Antónia  Pedroso de Lima

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2024.1.46041

Authors

Maria Claudia Coelho State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3885-5429
Antónia Pedroso de Lima Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, and researcher at CRIA-Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1536-1226

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2024.1.46041

Keywords:

Care, Control, Micropolitics of emotions

Abstract

This paper introduces the dossier “Care and emotions: discourses, practices and experiences”. Its purpose is to discuss possible intertwinings between theses on care and the anthropology of emotions, focusing on the parallels between the tension care-control and the micropolitical dimension of emotions.

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Author Biographies

Maria Claudia Coelho, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

PhD in Sociology from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj), in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Master in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Full professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Antónia Pedroso de Lima , Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, and researcher at CRIA-Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal.

PhD in Anthropology from Iscte, in Lisbon, Portugal and Master in Sociology from the same institution. Associate Professor with Aggregation at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and researcher at CRIA-Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal.

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