Political Representation and Emotions: The Case of Out Self-Identified LGB Representatives in Canada. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tremblay, Manon
• Is Part Of: Representation. Volume 55:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 125
• Page End: 139
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Canada -- emotions -- LGBTQ people -- political representation; Elections -- Periodicals; Representative government and representation -- Periodicals; 324
• DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1604421
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-4893

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role that out LGBTQ politicians think that emotions have played in their mandate of political representation, using Canada as a case study. My argument is that out LGBTQ politicians employ emotional narratives that constitute meanings to link the personal and the political in a co-constitutive manner: on the one hand, the personal is a source of politicization; on the other hand, politics provides a place where LGBTQ subjectivities can be expressed.