Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are complex sets of emotional dynamics which complicate the already contested terrain of social policy making.

Part One: Governance from a Feminist Psychosocial Perspective; Chapter One: Governing Subjects, Repression and Equality; Chapter Two: Ordering Differentialtion: Reconfiguring Governance as Relational Politics; Part Two: The Relational Politics of Governance; Chapter Three: Governing Subjectivities: The Politics of Ontological Detatchment and Relational Connection; Chapter Four: The Circulation and Distribution of Bad Feeling; Chapter Five: Resisting the Happy Governmentalities of Diversity; Chapter Six: Sustaining Collective Challenges to Policy Monoliths; Chapter Seven: Equalities Policy as Relational Hinterland; Conclusion: Mobilising Hopeful Fictions Through Differentiated Uncertainties

Shona Hunter is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy Governance at the University of Leeds, England and a Research Associate at the Research Centre into Visual Identities in Architecture and Design at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.