Intergenerational emotions and family history: temporal feelings and national stories
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Intergenerational emotions highlight the feelings that we have for our ancestors and descendants, drawing attention to a lineage of feeling and its temporalities. This article revisits the idea of intergenerational emotions as a conceptual tool and methodological approach that is used to explore how we grapple with feelings that persist across time, and which draws attention to the importance of temporalities in shaping social structures and emotional practices. It particularly positions the family as a key site where ideas of emotion and temporality are negotiated, and so to generating intergenerational emotions as a historical and cultural construct. To illustrate this discussion, it uses the example of family history making in an exhibition by the Windrush Generation Legacy Association.
Source: Emotions and Society
Authors: Katie Barclay, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Institutions: Macquarie University, University of Wollongong
Language: English
Topic: History of Emotions Research
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402538246