“Midān Moments”

Ayata, Bilgin; Harders, Cilja

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“…Whereas some focus on larger contextual aspects of relationships with the state, government institutions, and laws and how these create opportunities and constraints for emotional mobilization (Guenther, 2009;Whittier, 2001), others go down to the micro-level, examining activists' relationships with their physical surroundings and how feelings evoked and suppressed in such environments can foster activism (Bosco, 2007;Brown and Pickerill, 2009;Ransen-Cooper et al, 2018;Tang, 2021). In much of the latter scholarship, space is generally understood to incorporate networks of activists, supporters, and sympathizers (Bosco, 2007), sites of meeting and commemoration (Ayata and Harders, 2018;Tang, 2021), and practices of mourning and celebration (Gould, 2009).…”

Section: Memory Space and Emotional Resonancementioning

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“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

Selim

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Building on qualitative interviews with Syrians who participated in the anti-regime movement of 2011 and now live in Berlin and Oslo, the article unpacks the ways that these contexts affected participants’ decision to continue or disrupt their activism in exile. By analyzing their activist trajectories from revolution to exile and drawing on the concept of emotional resonance, I reveal how Berlin and Oslo provided participants with different environments when dealing with their past experiences of participation. I show that while the mobilizing structures of Berlin provided spaces for activism that resonated with the emotional needs of activists, enabling them to continue activism on behalf of Syria, the mobilizing structures of Oslo failed to produce spaces that could respond to activists’ needs, playing a part in their disengagement there. The article extends the concept of emotional resonance and adds to the study of Syrian diasporas and emotions in the Syrian uprising.

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“…Emotions were a recognizable part of the Arab uprisings as mass demonstrations reflected anger, joy, and pride (Ayata and Harders, 2018;Coşkun, 2019;Pearlman, 2013). In Syria, emotions did not just play a marginal role but are argued to have been one of the main drivers of the uprising (Pearlman, 2013(Pearlman, , 2016).…”

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“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

Selim

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…In relation to protests, researchers have termed the outcome of affective labour 'affective solidarity' (Juris, 2008), 'the affective atmosphere' of a protest (Frenzel et al, 2014;Yaka & Karakayali, 2017), or an 'affective community' (Vrasti & Dayal, 2016). Researchers tend to categorise affects as positive or negative for the protest, but as Gould (2009) and Ayata and Harders (2019) discuss, affects are inherently messy and ambivalent, and they cannot be linearly assessed as leading to either positive or negative outcomes. For instance, Gould (2009) finds that despair can lead to both mobilisation and immobilisation.…”

Section: Affective Labour and Ambivalencementioning

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The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement

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Jokela

2022

The Sociological Review

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In this article, we develop the concept of affective infrastructure as the entanglement of affects, meanings and materiality to analyse protest camps as a specific organisational form of social and political movement. Drawing on two ethnographic research projects investigating an asylum seekers’ protest camp in Helsinki, Finland, we argue that affects can be understood as having an infrastructural quality. The article contributes to research on affective politics by empirically studying the affective infrastructure of a protest camp. We distinguish between three interrelated dimensions of the affective infrastructure of a protest camp. First, affects are mobilised to mediate place-related meanings, the alteration of which is crucial to all protest camps. Second, affects are involved in creating the social space and atmosphere necessary to sustain a long-lasting protest. Third, affects impress themselves on abstract objects and ideas that must be managed as a part of the protest’s political message. Affects not only join subjects and objects together but also divide them, illustrating that an infrastructure becomes visible when it staggers or fails.

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Sensing the political: activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration

Podgornik Jakil

2024

Human Organization

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“Midān Moments”

Cited by 7 publications

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“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement

Sensing the political: activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration

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