ST-ANGER: EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES OF CARE

An actress embodies (only) discourses of women connected to the dense field of gender violence. The roles played are both fictional and real, and they are essentially “political figures” rather than fixed and materialized identities. The social worker, the mediator, the psychologist, the mother, the peer, the activist, the lawyer talk about trauma in a waiting setting. A trauma that does not appear as a psychological process or a physical wound, but is a political stake.

This play is performed in Greek.

The co-emotional landscapes concern those “atmospheres” that are created individually and collectively and that co-shape the public space as a place of political confrontation with the injustices that it produces every day.

Adopting the slogan “we are full of f–rage” that the brutal public murder of Jacques Kostopoulos highlighted and that echoed at the same time in the protest marches for Eleni Topaloudis, as in other cases of femicides, in this work care is intertwined with the rage it creates the daily reproduction of the injustice of the deaths of those who haunt the public space, while the search for social justice is constantly pending.

The text of the show is a transcription of a series of fiction audio documentaries – podcasts produced through interviews and systematic research within the framework of the research program “Co-emotional landscapes of care: Gender-based violence and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic”*, Department of Social Anthropology, Pantheon University.

*The research program “Co-emotional landscapes of care: Gender-based violence and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic” is funded by ELIDEK (Hellenic Research & Innovation Foundation), within the framework of the 4th Call for Action “Science and Society “, Flagship Action entitled “Interventions to deal with the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic”, with the Diotima Center as a collaborating organization and housed at the Department of Social Anthropology, Pantheon University of Social and Political Sciences.