Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016)

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Emotions and Social Movements

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research

Language: English

Emotions have been absent from sociological accounts of protest and social movements for decades (mainly due to the traditional duality of emotion vs. rationality in social research). However, during the past twenty years, the sociological study of emotions has proliferated and it has been recognized that emotions and feelings provide fundamental stances to the world, they are basic to our experiential responses to the ongoing events of the everyday “life world,” and inherent to involvement with that world, relationships to others and to our very self, including social movements mobilizations, protests, activities, etc. 
Emotions motivate people to join with others to mobilize; emotions are generated through and during protests and mobilizations and shape the goals of the movement. In short, emotions are an integral basic aspect of social-political activism. 
Abstracts that focus on the emotional aspects of social movements mobilization, activism, persistence, failure/success, etc. will be welcome. Posters: