Feeling Social Movements: Theoretical Contributions to Social Movement Research on Emotions

Ruiz‐Junco, Natalia

doi:10.1111/soc4.12006

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“…As Nussbaum argues, emotions are responses to our intelligent reasoning and judgements, and as such are connected to our ethico-political judgement [94]. In this way, emotions can be understood to be part of human intelligence and reasoning, as opposed to being an "irrational" side effect getting in the way of "real" politics [96].…”

Section: Nuit Debout and Political-moral Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

France’s #Nuit Debout Social Movement: Young People Rising up and Moral Emotions

Pickard

Bessant

2018

Societies

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Set against a backdrop of austerity and neoliberal policies affecting many young people adversely, the Nuit Debout protest movement in France began in March 2016 when people gathered in public spaces to oppose the Socialist government’s plan to introduce neoliberal labour legislation. Like other post-2008 movements, Nuit Debout was leaderless, non-hierarchical, and relied on social media for political communication and to mobilise participants. The Nuit Debout was also a movement inspired by powerful moral-political emotions such as righteous anger and hope. In this article, the authors address two questions. First, what features of Nuit Debout distinguished it from earlier social movements in France? Second, what role did moral emotions play in mobilising people to act as they did? Drawing on interviews with young protestors and their own testimonies, we argue that Nuit Debout was a distinctive form of protest for France. One distinguishing feature was the way young people—the “precarious generation”—were motivated by a strong sense of situated injustice, much of which related to what they saw as the unfairness of austerity policies, being deprived of a decent future and the feeling they had been betrayed by governments.

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Section: Nuit Debout and Political-moral Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

France’s #Nuit Debout Social Movement: Young People Rising up and Moral Emotions

Pickard

Bessant

2018

Societies

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“…This approach leaves more room to the evaluating of emotions, symbols, and cultural influence that take part in the organizing and restructuring of action (Olesen 2013;Ruiz-Junco 2013). In social movement scholarship, new social movement theories (NSM) have long underlined the impact of cultural transformations on the emergence of new forms of collective actions, crossing boundaries between politics, values, civic engagements, and identity processes (Melucci 1996;della Porta and Diani 2006).…”

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Making Sense of Social Change: Observing Collective Action in Networked Cultures

Rodriguez

2013

Sociology Compass

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This article presents an overview of rising trends in the study of networked interactions conveyed by social media technologies and the emergence of new meanings associated with social change. In recent years, a healthy amount of studies has focused on ICT uses within collective action, considering social media tools to have become crucial components of many transnational movements and social change projects. Crossing boundaries between social movements theories, political science, and communication studies, literature suggests that 'online activism' and increasingly networked interactions may have transformed the meanings and definitions associated with 'collective action' and 'social change'. To make sense of these meanings, we identify three approaches used by scholars, which focus on (i) the actual networking of actors, (ii) the diffusion of new repertoires and frames through networks, and (iii) making sense of new meanings conveyed within networked cultures. We conclude by suggesting the need for more comprehensive research to better observe and make sense of how's actors define collective action and how they use social media tools when striving to convey social change. 1054 Collective Action and Social Change in Networked Cultures Sociology Compass 7/12 (2013):

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“…Rather, the discipline has settled largely on an instrumentalist-structuralist lens (Johnson, 2009) focused on micro-and meso-level analysis (see Jasper, 2010). On top of those listed above are other more recent theories that come through the cultural turn and largely focus on micro-level examinations of social movements -for example those taking into account culture (Baumgarten et al, 2014;Johnston and Klandermans, 1995), emotions (Goodwin et al, 2001;Ruiz-Junco, 2013) or collective identity (Flesher Fominaya, 2010;McGarry and Jasper, 2015). There is less focus on the question of structural strains or rational choices and instead a focus on how culture and emotions allow for strategy in movement 'fields'.…”

Section: Macro-level Analysis Of the 'Newest' Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

Nulman

Schlembach

2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globetypified by the Occupy movement and the 'Arab Spring' -and grievances that are relatively novel in qualitative or quantitative form such as austerity, precarity, and a sense of democratic deficiency. While these novel social processes have invigorated the specialized arena of 'social movement studies' and generated a resurgence of work on social movements beyond the field, we argue for the need to interconnect levels of analysis in order to develop a more insightful account of contemporary contentious politics.

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Feeling Social Movements: Theoretical Contributions to Social Movement Research on Emotions

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

France’s #Nuit Debout Social Movement: Young People Rising up and Moral Emotions

France’s #Nuit Debout Social Movement: Young People Rising up and Moral Emotions

Making Sense of Social Change: Observing Collective Action in Networked Cultures

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

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