Stephen Coleman, Ph.D.

I am a Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds. I have written ten published books and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.

4 posts

In the Mood for Brexit?

by Stephen Coleman, Ph.D. in Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman Nov 24, 2025 — 13 min read

Brexit is about many things but one of them is the feeling that there is a much larger rot to stop, a natural order of things that it being eroded … Emotionally, Brexit is fuelled by anxiety.

Moods as Forms of Political Meaning

by Stephen Coleman, Ph.D. in Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman Nov 16, 2025 — 5 min read

The working of the market can be represented in descriptive terms, but beyond such empirical representation lies an aﬀective ‘horizon that … can never come into view as such’