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Since the 2016 presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the politics of emotion has surpassed, if not eclipsed, the politics of self-interest and old-fashioned Republican conservatism. Like it or not, as Sara Ahmed reveals inThe Cultural Politics of Emotion, emotions often shape the contours of individual and collective bodies: They “feel” rather than “think” their way through the caverns of identity politics and social movements. For example, these politics of emotion and the legacies of our “cultural wars” are engendered not only by the partisan memories of Trump’s eff…

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