ABSTRACT
In the ever-expanding field of emotions history, scholars are becoming increasingly aware of the discipline’s Western focus. ‘Emotions history’, Susan J. Matt and Peter N. Stearns argue, ‘needs to catch up with the increasingly global dimensions of the larger historical domain’. 1 In a recent American Historical Review Conversation on ‘The Historical Study of Emotions’, Eugenia Lean similarly expresses concern over emotions scholars’ focus on ‘change over time’. This focus, Lean argues, fails to consider place, and often results in the creation of ‘Western’ emotional genealogies that situate the ‘West’ as the normative space of investigation. 2
