Berghahn Books
That Sinking Feeling
About this book
Emotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.
Author / Editor information
Stefan Wellgraf is a Heisenberg Fellow at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on ethnographic studies of schools in low-income neighborhoods in Berlin and right-wing subcultures in East Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Boredom and Beyond
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Chapter 1. School in Ruins: Atmosphere of Boredom
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Chapter 2. Distraction: Provocation as Critique
50 - Part II. Forms of Self-Empowerment
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Chapter 3. Coolness: Selfie Poses
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Chapter 4. ‘Ghetto’ Pride: Discourses and Practices
114 - Part III. Feelings of Inadequacy
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Chapter 5. Grading: On the Pedagogical Production of Feelings of Inferiority
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Chapter 6. Ugly Feelings: Envy, Resentment and Embarrassment
179 - Part IV. Anger and Aggressiveness
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Chapter 7. Anger: Political Feelings and Patronizing Education
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Chapter 8. Aggressiveness: Boxer Style
244 - Part V. Fears and Hopes
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Chapter 9. Social Anxieties: Unemployment and Deportation
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Chapter 10. Cruel Optimism: The End of the Future
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Bibliography
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Index
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