Einleitung: Körper, Geschlecht, Affekt – Selbstinszenierungen und Bildungsprozesse in jugendlichen Sozialräumen

Protest between Discourse and Practice - On the Relationship of Affective Discourses and Practices of Moving Protest Forms with the Example of the Yippie Festival of Life

“…Also under-explored is the potential for empirical research of documentary dramas like Chicago 10 for analyzing the relationship of discourse and practice in the genealogical history of the present. Other than in existing researches mentioned at the beginning [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] one can use the presented research programme to show the communicational double-function of historic materials and present media, building current understandings of protest events as well. My contention is that within a discourse-oriented sociology of practice, as empirical data next to others in line of an advanced multi-sited ethnography through time and space the documentary can tell us something about what protest happened in history and what that tells us about the history of present protests.…”

“…Especially in the face of an affect-orientated media landscape, in times of visually-affecting crisis reporting on recurring forms of terror, reality TV formats and personalised video messages of public figures -which can't but be perceived both affirmative and agonal messages as affectively authored and observed -a sociologically-distanced and theoretical analysis of the affective is required. Additional to resulting in studies like Bütow, Kahl and Stach's [5] on the connection between youthfulness, affectivity and education, Gutierrez Rodriguez' [6] on affectivity in nursing careers, Endert's [7], Butler's and Mohrmann's [8] on the role of the affective in forms of extremism, Diehl's [9] on the role of affectivity in politics, or Seyfert's [10] on the relationship between institutions and affects, the very relevance of the sociological analysis of the affective should be taken as occasions for further discussions about looking at ways of producing extraordinariness. Extraordinariness comes in the process as both -short-term affecting episodes with a surprise effect, as well as sustained affecting of emotional involvement of organised extraordinariness [12].…”