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I thought this was America

I have argued that emotions are not only about the ‘impressions’ left by others, but that they involve investments in social norms (see Chapter 7). Injustice may work precisely through sustaining particular kinds of affective relations to social norms through what we do with our bodies. As I argued in the chapters on queer feelings and feminist attachments, challenging social norms involves having a different affective relation to those norms, partly by ‘feeling’ their costs as a collective loss. This argument certainly makes ‘feeling’ crucial to the struggle against injustice, but in a way that does not take feeling as the ground for action, but as an effect of the repetition of some actions rather than others.