ABSTRACT

Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and tools to the field of emotions and social movements.

Sociologists and political activists around the world will find this volume to be of great interest due to its wide-ranging approach and its unique emphasis on the role of emotion in protest, dissent and social movements.

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

Emotions' map

A research agenda 1

chapter 3|16 pages

How social movements move

Emotions and social movements

chapter 4|22 pages

Breaching events and the emotional reactions of the public

Women in Black in Israel 1

chapter 5|20 pages

Emotional events and the transformation of collective action

The Chinese student movement 1

chapter 6|20 pages

Mobilization and the moral shock

Adbusters Media Foundation

chapter 7|16 pages

The problem of emotion in care

Contested meanings from the Disabled People's Movement and the Feminist Movement 1

chapter 8|15 pages

The emotional significance of solidarity for social movement communities

Sustaining Catholic worker community and service

chapter 10|19 pages

The entanglements of shame

An emotion perspective on social movement demobilization 1