Social Movements and Emotions

Jasper, James M.; Owens, Lynn

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“…The first one just expresses its affection with capitals, for “THIS CITY.” This could also be linked to the “relocalisation” toward which political movements have been said to move, as a way to anchor itself into the material struggle and not getting lost through the deterritorialization of globalization of capital and politics (Askanius, 2010). Previous studies have also shown how “[a]ctivists sometimes draw on emotional connections to places created by other movements” (Jasper & Owens, 2014, p. 539). In this case, the interdiscursivity of emotionality already invested in the city (as with the supporter discourse) is drawn upon by the participants.…”

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“…Political bodies have not, in general, been researched and understood in terms of their emotionality, and when they are, they are often seen as illegitimate, and their claims and concerns are seen as outrageous, utopian or their rage and hope individualized (Cammaerts, 2012; Persson, 2016). More recently, however, there has been an affective and emotional turn in the social sciences at large where emotionality of politics has generated new interest in a variety of different academic fields, not least among communication scholars (Bainbridge & Yates, 2014; Coleman, 2013; Dahlgren, 2009, 2013; Dahlgren & Alvares, 2013; Gould, 2010; Jasper & Owens, 2014; Pantti & Wahl-Jorgensen, 2011; Richards, 2007; Wahl-Jorgensen, 2012, 2016). If there is a normative idea guiding this article, it is the one put forward by Coleman when he argues that “[d]emocracy depends on forms of interruptive speaking, movement and place-taking that defy the almost all-encompassing image of the public as extras on the stage of history” (Coleman, 2013, p. 194).…”

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Love, Affiliation, and Emotional Recognition in #kämpamalmö:— The Social Role of Emotional Language in Twitter Discourse

Persson

2017

Social Media + Society

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While emotional language and imagery in protest esthetics are nothing new, emotions have been repressed in modern political discourse at large, as being seen as irrational if not dangerous. As new media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are becoming central media spaces for live online broadcasting of political protests, they have become an important site of discursive struggle for researchers to take into account. This article argues that emotional language use is not merely something excessive but a central discursive resource for participants in communicating their political and social relations. The analysis in this article is based on data collected from the Twitter hashtag #kämpamalmö during an anti-fascist demonstration that took place in Malmö, Sweden in 2014. Methodologically, this article is guided by a critical discourse analytical approach, with a focus on how emotional language use allows participants to form collectivities. Empirically, the article identifies how participants make use of emotional language to negotiate and relate to and identify with objects, with the outcome of different forms of socialites. One example of this is how the city itself became a central object of negotiation, as a contested love object as well as a political “empty signifier.” Another object around which participants negotiate themselves is “love” itself, as in love for the movement and as a political object in itself.

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Love, Affiliation, and Emotional Recognition in #kämpamalmö:— The Social Role of Emotional Language in Twitter Discourse

Persson

2017

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“…This approach borrowed from the concept of frame introduced by Erving Goffman as 'schemata of interpretation' that allow individuals to 'locate, perceive, identify and label' experiences (1974: 21), making them meaningful. Scholars began to focus on agency and meaning, investigating them through the prism of emotions, identities, and framing processes (Benford, Snow 2000;Flesher Fominaya 2010;Jasper, Owens 2014). In this study, I analyse how activists frame corruption and their response to this issue considering what is referred to as the diagnostic and prognostic frame, i. e. the 'identification of a problem and attribution of blame or casualty <…> and the identification of strategies, tactics, and targets' (Snow, Benford 1988: 200-201).…”

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Urban Activists from the Perspective of Anti-Corruption: A Framing Approach

Chiarvesio

2021

JSPS

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This work proposes to investigate anti-corruption by examining how corruption and the strategies to counteract it are framed by urban activists. I argue that the increasing importance of urban initiatives in strengthening citizenship and keeping local authorities accountable in Russia deserves the attention not only of social movements scholars but also those studying corruption. In fact, more institutionalized organizations, whose goal is the promotion of anti-corruption and democratic principles, struggle to position themselves as mediators between civil society and the authorities due to the lack of trust from citizens and government laws that limit their activities. In this context, informal grassroots initiatives, as in the case of Kaliningrad analysed below, are particularly important, as they can become 'laboratories' where citizenship is strengthened and implemented, and knowledge is produced. Applying a framing perspective, this study shows how corruption is perceived and framed by activists not only as the abuse of power for private gain, but also as immoral behaviour. Here the lack of competence and the lack of respect towards citizens are also framed as corrupt behaviour. The strategies and activities to make the authorities more accountable, such as increasing transparency and citizen engagement in the policy-making process, are directly linked with the way corruption is framed. In fact, activists legitimize their activities as a professionalized and qualified response to the incompetent approach of authorities and their unethical behaviour, emphasizing the educational role they play.

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“…But what makes his analysis distinctive is that often these pressures cannot be resolved because institutional systems—for example, economy, polity, law, religion—reveal rigidities that keep them from innovating new solutions to problems of inequality (although the historical record, thus far, shows that these institutional systems were able to innovate more than Marx anticipated). As a result, those who are subordinate or marginalized and who do not perceive that they receive a fair share of resources will experience a variety of deprivations that accumulate into a set of grievances that, initially, are only vaguely articulated but that, nonetheless, arouse intense negative emotions (Goodwin and Jasper 2006; Jasper and Owens 2014; Turner 2010). The conflict process begins here, and under a number of conditions, leads subordinates to develop counterideologies against not only the legitimating ideologies of the political economy but also the institutional structure of a society (Summers-Effler and Kwak 2015; Turner 2010).…”

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Returning the “Social” to Evolutionary Sociology: Reconsidering Spencer, Durkheim, and Marx’s Models of “Natural” Selection

Turner

Abrutyn

2016

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Sociology can no longer avoid engagement with biological ideas, but it can incorporate them where they are useful. Most biologically inspired explanations of sociological processes from outside the discipline are simple and, moreover, too reliant on biological rather than sociological models of social processes. Yet, it is possible to engage these efforts by developing sociological concepts and theories that meet those using evolutionary theory from biology. This paper argues that the heavy reliance on Darwinian natural selection limits sociological explanations, although this approach can help sociologists understand the evolved behavioral propensities of humans as evolved apes. These behavioral propensities cannot, however, explain the evolution and dynamics of the layers of sociocultural phenomena studied by sociologists, and efforts to do so with Darwinian notions of natural selection on individual organisms will always be inadequate. As an alternative, we propose that there are other types of natural selection inherent in the organization of what Herbert Spencer termed superorganisms. We label these Durkheimian, Spencerian, and Marxian selection, and they explain what Darwinian selection cannot: the dynamics and evolution of sociocultural phenomena.

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Social Movements and Emotions

Cited by 12 publications

References 76 publications

Love, Affiliation, and Emotional Recognition in #kämpamalmö:— The Social Role of Emotional Language in Twitter Discourse

Love, Affiliation, and Emotional Recognition in #kämpamalmö:— The Social Role of Emotional Language in Twitter Discourse

Urban Activists from the Perspective of Anti-Corruption: A Framing Approach

Returning the “Social” to Evolutionary Sociology: Reconsidering Spencer, Durkheim, and Marx’s Models of “Natural” Selection

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