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Introduction -- LOYALTY AND THEORIES OF EMOTION. What is loyalty? -- The theorising of emotion -- Biological approaches to emotions theory -- Biocultural approaches to emotions theory -- The sociological theories of emotion -- The existentialist theory of emotions -- The implications of loyalty as an emotion. -- ELEMENTS OF LOYALTY. Notes on methodology -- The language of loyalty -- Emotion(al) discourse- gender, power and control -- Seeing loyalty -- Loyalty layers: an individual's multiple, competing loyalties -- Identity and loyalty -- Motivation to action -- Is it just a behaviour? -- FAMILY LOYALTY. Family loyalty- a primordial relationship? -- Blood is thicker than water -- Family-like loyalty -- Gang loyalty- 'a brotherhood' -- A soldier's loyalty -- Family the quintessential loyalty? -- NATIONAL LOYALTY. A loyal nation? -- Nation, identity and loyalty -- The war(s) around loyalties -- Conscripting loyalty -- Dual loyalties- the immigrant's conflict -- No, where do you really come from? -- McCarthyism- rampant national loyalty. -- SPORT AND LOYALTY. Product, spectacle and marketing -- South Sydney Rabbitohs -- The Canterbury Bulldogs' crises. -- CULTURAL LOYALTY. Loyalty and Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Buffyverse loyalty -- Loyalty is socially constructed -- Loyalty as motivation -- Loyalty and identity -- Loyalty operates at a number of layers -- Loyalty is contested -- Television, loyalty and the Buffyverse -- Mediated loyalties- conclusions. -- CONCLUSION. Layered loyalty -- Loyalty and identity -- Loyalty and action -- Definions of emotion. -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Episodes of BtVS -- Index. |
