Social Policies and Emotions in Latin America: A theoretical approach for their analysis

SCRIBANO, ADRIAN; ANGÉLICA DE SENA; REBECA CENA

Politics and Emotions

Studium Press LLC

Lugar: Huston ; Año: 2018; p. 57 - 77

This chapter aims to make a conceptual analysis of the links between social policies,emotions and World Images in a Latin American context. It tries to frame the theoretical and epistemic plots of subjacent assumptions that involve (and activate) state interventions in "the social". The following argumentative strategy has been chosen: firstly, we will account for the links between social policies and the capitalist regime of accumulation; secondly, we wil explain the proposed theoretical links between World Image and policies of emotions; thirdly, we will offer some arguments which show the analytical richness of linking social policies and policies of emotions through the concept of World Images; fourthly, as an example, we will frame the massiveness of social policies as World Image that transmits emotionalities linked to the reproduction of the regime of accumulation. Lastly , as a conclusion, we ask and warn about some components of social policies which make them stand as tools for coloniality.