This book explores the relationships between emotion, identity and fantasy within the mediatised landscape of contemporary political culture. Focusing mainly on the UK context, the study of these relationships takes the form of an interdisciplinary ‘psycho-cultural’ approach that uses theories and methods taken from the fields of psychosocial studies, cultural and media studies. A starting place for this book is that politics – and our engagement with it – has become increasingly emotional (Lilleker, 2012; Richards, 2007). The emotionalisation of politics can be found in different aspects of political culture, which include the...