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

Abstract

This article aims at making a conceptual analysis of links between social policies, emotions and World Images. It tries to frame theoretical and epistemic plots of subjacent assumptions that involve (and activate) State interventions on the social.” The following is argumentative strategy that has been chosen: firstly, we will account for links between social policies and capitalist regime of accumulation; secondly, we will explain proposed theoretical links between World Image and policies of emotions; thirdly, we will offer some arguments which show analytical richness of linking social policies and policies of emotions through concept of World Image; fourthly, as an example, we will frame massiveness of social policies as a World Image that transmits emotionalities linked to reproduction of regime of accumulation. Lastly, as a conclusion, we ask and warn about some components of social policies which make them stand as tools for coloniality