Seminar: Emotions and climate activism: why they matter

Seminar: Emotions and climate activism: why they matter

Alice Poma (IIS-UNAM) and Tommaso Gravante (CEIICH-UNAM)

06 abril 2022 | 16h | Online (Lisboa West)

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Eventos LACAB

Docencia

Curso de educación continua: "Cómo construir un proyecto de investigación en activismo y alternativas de base desde el enfoque sociocultural."

2023

Emociones y alianzas inesperadas en el activismo de base - Deborah Gould

17 de noviembre de 12 a 13 Deborah Gould (UC Santa Cruz) Emociones y alianzas inesperadas en el activismo de base

2023

La cultura emocional del capitalismo - Arlie Hochschild

21 de septiembre de 2023, de 12 a 13 horas Arlie Hochschild La cultura emocional del capitalismo

PUBLICACIONES

Artículos

The Emotional Dimension of Mexican Climate Activism: a Sociocultural Approach

Tipo : articulo Año: 2024 Autor: Alice Poma y Tommaso Gravante Resumen: Since many disciplines started to examine emotions in the nineties, studies that focus on emotions and protest have increased, despite the difficulties of systematizing the complex matrix of emotions that activists feel, as well as the limitations that emotion labels create. In this article, we show how using a sociocultural approach to analyze emotions and protest allows us to overcome these limitations that belong to the classical view of emotions. We will do this by analyzing the emotional dimension of the new wave of the climate movement in Mexico (2019-2022). The article focuses on how several long-term and medium-term emotions that activists feel affect their climate activism, influencing, for instance, the framing of the problem, the perception of the threat, and how emotions interact with each other. This article helps highlight both the potential and the difficulties of the sociocultural approach to emotion and protest in the context of the climate crisis.

Artículos

“Si mañana soy yo, si mañana no vuelvo, destrúyelo todo”: Emociones y género en mujeres activistas en México

Tipo : articulo Año: 2024 Autor: Tommaso Gravante y Alice Poma Resumen: The aim of the article is to analyze how Mexican women activists’ emotions are constructed by gender and sociocultural context. The theory of action applied in this paper is based on understanding emotions as sociocultural constructs (Hochschild, 1979, 1983) and on applying different typologies that have proven very useful when analyzing the various emotions that activists come to feel (Jasper, 2018). Along the article, we will discuss how Mexican female activists shape their moral emotion, such as fear, pain and anger, and some emotion work strategies used by women activists to manage these emotions; showing how these emotions interact with affective commitments, such as love, sisterhood, and trust. We will conclude discussing some patterns we are observing in the change in the emotional culture of the new generation of activists which are breaking some gender feeling rule.

Libros Coordinados

Emociones y Activismos de Base

Tipo: libro Año: 2023 Autor: Tommaso Gravante y Alice Poma Resumen: Sin la ambición de lograr el manual perfecto ni el más completo, este libro, el primero en español sobre esta temática, ha sido pensado como una herramienta para aprender a analizar la dimensión emocional en el activismo de base. Resultará ser un texto fundamental tanto para quien quiera familiarizarse con la comprensión del papel de las emociones en diversas experiencias de activismos, como para aquellas personas, sean estudiantes, investigadores o activistas, que solo quieran acercarse a este nuevo enfoque en el campo de estudio de los movimientos sociales.