Abstract
In this issue of Sociologias, we bring discussions around “bodies and emotions”, adding the idea of “risk”, in order to incorporate into the sociological reflection the degree of uncertainty that daily social relations entail currently. The body, from the sociological point of view, is understood as a sign of social relations, encompassing a set of representations of both individual and collective life, which composes a grammar that constituted a particular subject of a specialized field of contemporary sociology that has consolidated different research strands. Emotions, in turn, are not separate from their support, their expressive vehicle, the body. These, in sociology or anthropology, while the fruit of observation and analysis of social relations, cannot be treated either as substance, entity that anticipates or contradicts human actions, but as a dimension of affective life that is constantly changing due to the infinite possibilities of human interaction. In the interstices of bodies and emotions, the notion of risk reveals to us the uncertainties of individual existence that always oscillate between vulnerability and security, impetus and judgment. In order to denaturalize and relativize such notions, this dossier presents articles that stem from different theoretical and methodological approaches undertaken by researchers from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and France.
Keywords:
body sociology; sociology of emotions; risk behavior; aesthetics and identity; legal status of the body