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SUMMARY:Ethnography in Progress - Katie Arnold-Murray
LOCATION:Hale Science 450\, 1350 Pleasant Drive\, Boulder\, CO 80309
DESCRIPTION:November 13th 11 am: PhD Candidate Katie Arnold-Murray\, Lingu
 istic Anthropology\n\nDiscussant: PhD Candidate Conor Lanning\, Cultural 
 Anthropology\n\nHale 450 or Zoom\n\nFriendship bracelets in the 2024 US e
 lection and the political commodification of emotion\n\nThis chapter inve
 stigates how friendship bracelets circulated as objects which joy stuck t
 o during the 2024 US election\, and how the circulation of these objects 
 commodified emotions for political gain to construct a sense of friendshi
 p and community between interactants. This commodification simultaneously
  served to rhematize (Gal & Irvine\, 2019) specific emotions as iconic of
  opposing political sides\, with Democrats viewing joy and positivity as 
 representative of the political left and viewing hate and negativity as i
 conic of the political right. The findings of this chapter are based on e
 thnographic study of Swifties for Kamala\, and my analysis carries out na
 rrative analysis of small stories (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou\, 2008\; Ge
 orgakopoulou\, 2007) told in ethnographic interviews with members of Swif
 ties for Kamala wherein they discussed friendship bracelets in their poli
 tical work. I critique the commodification of emotions associated with fr
 iendship in the political arena and discuss how friendship “provides a cr
 itical site for anthropologists to study identity formation\, to pose new
  questions about the articulation of personal and social identities” (Bel
 l & Coleman\, 1999\, p. 12)\n\nPlease RSVP to receive the paper and the z
 \n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/51dea597-369a-4f3f-978a-a8514dd2dd2c
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