Much emphasis has been placed on different types of ‘capital’ in societies, for instance, ‘social capital’ or ‘cultural capital’. However, emotions also circulate and accumulate a sort of ‘capital’, aligning some bodies with each other within a community while marginalising other bodies.

Kirsten Thisted – Blubber Politics: Emotional Economies and Post-Postcolonial Identities in Contemporary Greenlandic Literature and Art, Sami Art and Aesthetics, Aarhus University Press, 201