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Belonging and Exclusion: Political Psychology of Identity, Grievance, and Ressentiment

Political Psychology
Populism
Identity
P057
Tereza Capelos
University of Southampton
Resisting Democratic Decline – Political Psychology of Repair and Renewal

Abstract

This panel examines how identity-based emotions transform social and political grievances into democratic exclusion. The papers analyze ressentiment, social devaluation, identity anxiety, and subjective threat to show how feelings of misrecognition undermine democratic inclusion. Together, they conceptualize grievance as an affective–relational process at the heart of contemporary populist politics.

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