The first issue of a new review, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, is now available online. This special issue explores the role of emotions in shaping political, social and cultural traditions/decisions among marginalized communities and, at the same time, looks into how marginalized identities or emotions of marginalized communities are viewed by dominant groups.
Articles: PJHS-_Emotions_and_Marginalised_Comm
- “Ethnographies of trauma and migrant emotions: South Asian visual narratives of war and displacement”, by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
- “Tears on silk: Cross-cultural emotional performances among Japanese-born Christians in seventeenth-century Batavia”, by Susan Broomhall
- “Uncivilized emotions: Romantic images and marginalisation of the Gitanos/Spanish gypsies”, by María Sierra
- “The politics of emotions: The Dalit and lower castes in Uttar Pradesh”, by Sujoy Dutta
Framed in PENDARIPEN research project, «Uncivilized Emotions: Romantic Images and Marginalisation of the Gitanos/Spanish Gypsies», examines the emotional aspects of Western Romantic discourse on Spanish Gitanos, starting from the assumption that this is a cultural construction that contributed to the civic marginalization and political persecution of the Romani people. By examining the emotive language of observers and the emotional ‘nature’ they attributed to this community, the stereotyped emotional foundation of ‘gypsiness’ can be dismantled. It is argued that this discourse, which reveals the affective anxieties of majoritarian society, linked emotions attributed to the Gitanos with their alleged inability to adapt to modern society, thus justifying that they are an unassimilable community.
El primer número de una nueva revista, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, acaba de salir y puede consultarse en la red. Se trata de un número especial que estudia el papel de las emociones en la formación de las tradiciones y de las decisiones políticas en las comunidades marginadas, a la vez que analiza el discurso de las sobre las emociones consideradas propias de las comunidades marginadas por parte de las sociedades dominantes.
Entre los artículos:
- “Ethnographies of trauma and migrant emotions: South Asian visual narratives of war and displacement”, by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
- “Tears on silk: Cross-cultural emotional performances among Japanese-born Christians in seventeenth-century Batavia”, by Susan Broomhall
- “Uncivilized emotions: Romantic images and marginalisation of the Gitanos/Spanish gypsies”, by María Sierra
- “The politics of emotions: The Dalit and lower castes in Uttar Pradesh”, by Sujoy Dutta
El artículo de María Sierra sobre la construcción emocional de los gitanos españoles, estudia el discurso romántico occidental desde el supuesto de que ha construido una representación cultural del pueblo gitano que ha contribuido a su marginación cívica y su persecución política. Su objetivo es deconstruir el fundamento emocional de la “Gitanidad”, entendida como un estereotipo. Se estudia para ello el lenguaje emotivo de los observadores así como la naturaleza “emocional” asignada a los gitanos. Sostiene la idea de que este discurso sobre los gitanos, además de revelar las ansiedades afectivas de la sociedad mayoritaria, vincula las emociones atribuidas a los gitanos con su supuesta incapacidad para adaptarse a la sociedad moderna, describiéndolos como una comunidad inasimilable.