The text presents a reflection based on the articulation between emotion and science. This is possible when moving your understanding of the phenomenon of emotions away from familiar, where this is thought of as a little rational phenomenon. By focusing on the work of ethnopsychology Catherine Lutz on emotions of Ifaluk island's inhabitants, the text presents another perspective on emotions and on the search process: articulating emotion to politics, proposing the construction of the problem along with the knowledge of the search field and giving the researcher the possibility of transformation in the process of research.
emotion; search; politics