Dear Gijs and HotPoliticsLab colleagues,
I wanted to share with you an invitation to our PLEDGE Project Stakeholder Event, which will take place in Brussels on 2-3 October 2024.
PLEDGE is a Horizon Europe-funded initiative focused on grievance politics and democratic governance. This event aims to bring together academics, policymakers, civil society representatives, journalists, and media professionals to explore how we can foster
emotionally responsive communication and governance, strengthening democratic engagement across Europe.
This will be particularly relevant for colleagues preparing grant applications or looking to build connections with stakeholders interested in the emotional dynamics of grievance politics.
In addition to the main PLEDGE sessions, the event will feature brief presentations from other Horizon Europe-funded consortia working on emotions and the challenges facing democracy. The first day will introduce the themes of the project, focusing on the emotionality
of grievance politics and the practical aspects of participatory democratic dialogue. On the second day, workshops will address specific issues, explore the design of new democratic institutions, and develop a roadmap for future collaborations.
You can find more information, including the agenda and registration details [registration
page for the conference], on the conference website [conference
website with agenda]. The event will be held in a hybrid format, offering both on-site and online sessions. For those who prefer to attend remotely, we welcome online registrations.
We would be delighted if you could join us and contribute to the conversation.
Best regards,
Tereza
Tereza Capelos
Professor of Political Psychology
Department of Politics and International Relations (PAIR)
University of Southampton
PLEDGE Horizon Europe Project:
https://www.pledgeproject.eu/;
https://linktr.ee/pledgehorizonproject
PROTEMO Horizon Europe Project:
https://protemo.eu/
Co-Chair, ECPR
Political Psychology Standing Group
Co-Editor Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology (book series). To publish with us visit
here
Former President,
International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)
Address: School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences
University of Southampton, Building 58/ Room 3085
Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao-Tzu
Recent publications:
- *NEW*
The Antisocial Triad of Grievance Politics: an integrated model of reactionsim, ressentiment, and collective narcissism, with Mikko Salmela, Gavin Sullivan, and Stavroula Chrona (in American Behavioral Scientist), Open Access (2024)
- *NEW*
Ressentiment in the manosphere, with Mikko Salmela, Anastaseia Talalakina and Oliver Cotena (in Philosophies), Open Access (2024)
- Emotional
Diplomacy in Times of Uncertainty and Disinformation, with Grete Krisciunaite. In Routledge Handbook of Disinformation and National Security (2023)
- Narratives of Success and Failure in Ressentiment, with
Ellen Nield and Mikko Salmela (in Social Sciences), Open Access (2023)
- Radicalization,
Extremism, or a Third Position, with Catarina Kinnvall and Poppy Laurens (in Nativist and Islamic Radicalization), 2023
- Grievance Politics, with
Mikko Salmela and Gabija Krisciunaite (in Politics and Governance), Open Access (2022)
- Sour Grapes,
with Nicolas Demertzis (in Innovation), Open Access (2022)
- Values
and emotionality in Greek political culture: a study of ressentiment’ with Nicolas Demertzis and George Papadoulis (2022)
- Special issue
Reactionary Politics and Ressentful Affect in Populist
Times
(in
Politics and Governance, Open Access) with Stavroula Chrona, Mikko Salmela and Cristiano Bee. (2021)
- Ressentiment: A Complex Emotion
or an Emotional Mechanism of Psychic Defences?,
with Mikko Salmela (in Politics and Governance), Open Access. (2021)
- Who is in the Middle, with Ipshita Basu (in
Political Psychology) Open Access. (2021)
- Getting Inside the Head of the
Far Right, with Pasko Kisic Merino and Catarina Kinnvall (in Researching the Far Right)
(2021)
- Reactionary Politics, with Alexia Katsanidou (in
Political Psychology). Open Access.
- Political Action and Resentful
Affectivity in Critical Times, with Nicolas Demertzis (in Humanity and Society)
- The
Map to the Heart, with Stavroula Chrona (in Politics and Governance)
My article in The Conversation:
How
to deal with the open wounds of electoral loss
Book, Co-Editor:
Handbook of
Global Political Psychology
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9371-4509
