ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a specific resistance strategy named 'falling for the collective', which redefines the object and the 'nature' of love. It presents 'falling for the collective' as a feminist figuration that redirects knowledge to look for coalitions and alliances from daily life, for alternative subjectivities that are produced within the common. From this perspective, can the romantic image be expanded to apply to the organised political collective? Is the use of the romantic in this figuration a sign of assimilation to the normativity of romantic love or can we still rescue some radical elements in this expansion? The chapter explores these questions by addressing the double character of this figuration: the romanticisation of the collective as a process that re-signifies the romantic scripts associated with heteronormative couple love; and the politicisation of romance as a move towards a transformative notion of love.
