Love As Collective Action: Bodies, Emotions, and Sensibilities (2)

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: SJES029 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
WG08 Society and Emotions (host committee)
RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences
TG12 Social Love and Solidarity

Language: English and Spanish

The present session aims to make evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the connection between the politics of sensibilities and social conflict. Paraphrasing Melucci, these interstitial practices are nomads of the present: they travel the winding geography that, closer to politics, becomes a map of the situation of the politics of sensibilities. Love as a practice of hope redefines the territory of collective practices that deny the value of closed totality of the political economy of morality existing in the first years of the twenty-first century. The session seeks to emphasize the need and urgency to continue mapping interstitial practices as a key task to understand the metamorphosis of the current process of social structuring. From a postcolonial, post-speciesism”, post-intersectional perspective, we seek to open dialogue on sociologies of bodies and emotions that serve to understand collective actions in a trans-global world. The presentation of theoretical works, reports on empirical research and experiences where love is a constitutive energy of collective practice as their capacity to be nomads of the present and prophets of the future are encouraged.
Session Organizer:
Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D., NOVA University Lisbon | MARE Centre, Portugal
Oral Presentations
La Maleta Emocional En La Migración Circular Entre Guatemala y España
Maria CALDERON, Instituto de Investigación e Incidencia Ciudadana, Guatemala
Cuidado Para Vivir De Diferentes Generaciones De Mujeres En Brasil y España
Silvana BITENCOURT, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
Body/Language: Sustaining Space for Oneself and Others
Yara Aparecida COUTO, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Brazil; Aline Maria Pacífico MANFRIM, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Narratives of Love in the Contemporary Japanese Society.
Haruo SAKIYAMA, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
El Sufrimiento Por Amor: Entre La Libertad Emocional y Las Desigualdades De Género
Tania RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Forum Theatre Workshops As an Interstitial Practice for Emerging Love
Songsiri PUTTHONGCHAI, Thammasat university, Thailand