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War on the Couch

The Emotionology of the New International Security Paradigm

Vanessa Pupavac

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK

The emotional state of war-affected populations has become a central concern for international policy-makers in the last decade. Growing interest in war trauma is influenced by contemporary Anglo-American emotionology, or emotional norms, which tends to pathologize ordinary responses to distress, including anger related to survival strategies. The article critically analyses the ascendancy of a therapeutic security paradigm in international politics, which seeks to explain the prevailing political, economic and social conditions in terms of cycles of emotional dysfunctionalism. The article contends that international therapeutic governance pathologizes waraffected populations as emotionally dysfunctional and problematizes their right to self-government, leading to extensive external intervention. However, international therapeutic governance may be detrimental to postwar recovery as well legitimizing a denial of self-government.

Key Words: Bosnia • conflict prevention • humanitarian aid • peace-building • psychosocial intervention • war trauma

European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 7, No. 2, 149-170 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1368431004041749
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