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Copyright

Louise Knops, Karen Celis, Virginie Van Ingelgom

Published On

2024-09-06

Page Range

pp. 1–28

Language

  • English

Print Length

28 pages

1. Political resentment

an empirical and conceptual introduction

Chapter of: Bitter-Sweet Democracy?: Analyzing citizens' resentment towards politics in Belgium(pp. 1–28)
In chapter 1, Knops, Celis, and Van Ingelgom lay out the context–both empirical and theoretical–in which the book is rooted. The chapter, first, briefly situates the study of resentment in the literature and against the contemporary political context. It presents a rationale for focusing on resentment as key concept of studies on the crisis of democracy. The chapter then provides a conceptual introduction on resentment along three dimensions–morality, complexity and temporality–before giving a short description of the project EoS-RepResent from which the contributions of the book emerged, the specificities of the Belgian context, the objectives of the book, its structure and a preview of the individual chapters.

Contributors

Louise Knops

(author)
Assistant Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2495-7993

Louise Knops is assistant professor in environmental humanities at the Université libre de Bruxelles. During the writing and editing of this book, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research interests range from affect and emotions, to political theory, social movements studies and environmental politics.

Karen Celis

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-9107

Karen Celis is full professor affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Department of Political Sciences. She co-chairs the VUB Center for Democratic Futures (DFUTURE) and RHEA, the Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, and, until last year, the VUB Academic Advisor on Equality Policy. She conducts theoretical and empirical research on the democratic quality of political representation from an intersectional perspective. She leads political science and interdisciplinary research programmes and projects about gender, diversity and intersectionality; about resentment and polarization; and about democratic design and innovations.

Virginie Van Ingelgom

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5049-1862

Virginie Van Ingelgom is a F.R.S.–FNRS Senior Research Associate and professor of Political Science at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe, UCLouvain. Her research interests focus on democracy and legitimacy at the subnational, national, European, and global levels, on citizens’ attitudes towards European integration, on policy feedback, and in qualitative and mixed methods. Her previous work has been awarded the Jean Blondel Ph.D. Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research (2012) and an ERC Starting Grant (Qualidem, 2017-2023).