Social policies and emotions in Latin America: A theoretical approach to their analysis

Abstract

Millions of subjects living in the Global-South receive benefits from social policies that play a central role in the reproduction of the regime of accumulation. This work critically reflects on the potential links among social policies, world images, and policies of emotions. In doing so, the following argumentative path is followed: first, we provide a schematic presentation of the link between the regime of accumulation and social policies; second, we briefly introduce the concepts of world images and the politics of emotions; third, we continue by establishing the relationships between the points exposed in the previous sections; finally, we delineate some consequences of the analysis. To conclude, we argue for the need for critically analysis of the constituents of the social policies that ‘give shape’ to the sociability, life experiences, and sensibilities of millions of ‘aided’ people and their recursive validation