TY - JOUR
TI - Boredom and Power: How Power Relations Influence Feeling Boredom
AU - Finkielsztein, Mariusz
TI - Boredom and Power: How Power Relations Influence Feeling Boredom
AB - 
	The paper advocates the claim that boredom is not only a psychological state or existential mood but a social emotion produced and reproduced in the process of interactions between people as individuals, people displaying specific social roles, or social groups. Moreover, as argued in the article, the feeling of boredom is particularly characteristic of power relations. Therefore, boredom is hypothesized to be a matter of interactional/social position – its experiencing is influenced by one’s social status. The power to produce boredom in others usually reflects a higher social position, and in some situations, causing others to be bored can constitute a deliberate or unintentional method of keeping others in a submissive position by limiting their sense of agency – thus a tool for gaining/maintaining power and social control.
VL - 2023
IS - 14/2023
PY - 2023
SN - 2082-7806
C1 - 2543-408X
SP - 123
EP - 148
DO - 10.4467/2543408XZOP.23.004.18504
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zoon-politikon/article/boredom-and-power-how-power-relations-influence-feeling-boredom
KW - Boredom
KW - Power
KW - Power relations
KW - Relational power
KW - Interactionism
KW - Social Control