How emotions shape feminist coalitions

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-386
Author(s):  
Nancy Whittier
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Emotional Landscape

This article develops a framework for conceptualizing the emotional dimensions of coalitions, with particular focus on how power operates through emotion in different varieties of feminist coalitions. The article proposes three interrelated areas in which emotion shapes feminist coalitions: (1) Feelings towards coalition partners: feelings of mistrust, anger, fear, or their reverse grow from histories of interaction and unequal power. These make up the emotional landscape of intersectional coalitions, which operate through a tension between negative emotions and attempts at empathy or mutual acceptance; (2) Shared feelings: feminist coalitions build on shared fear of threat or anger at a common enemy; and (3) emergent emotions in collective action. Coalition partners possess distinct emotion cultures. Joint collective action can cement bonds when all participants’ emotion cultures are reflected, or weaken coalitions when the reverse is true. In all three of these areas, organizers engage in emotional labour in order to create or maintain coalitions. These three dynamics are illustrated with examples from intersectional feminist coalitions, the Women’s Marches, and interactions between feminists and conservatives opposed to pornography.

Collective action and the common enemy effect

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 644-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris De Jaegher ◽  
Britta Hoyer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Student Prize-Winning Abstracts 2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-77
Author(s):  
Sharpley Hsieh ◽  
Olivier Piguet ◽  
John R. Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotion Detection ◽  
Recognition Of Facial Expressions ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Recognition Of Emotions ◽  
Valence And Arousal

AbstractIntroduction: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive neurode-generative brain disease characterised clinically by abnormalities in behaviour, cognition and language. Two subgroups, behavioural-variant FTD (bvFTD) and semantic dementia (SD), also show impaired emotion recognition particularly for negative emotions. This deficit has been demonstrated using visual stimuli such as facial expressions. Whether recognition of emotions conveyed through other modalities — for example, music — is also impaired has not been investigated. Methods: Patients with bvFTD, SD and Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as healthy age-matched controls, labeled tunes according to the emotion conveyed (happy, sad, peaceful or scary). In addition, each tune was also rated along two orthogonal emotional dimensions: valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (stimulating/relaxing). Participants also undertook a facial emotion recognition test and other cognitive tests. Integrity of basic music detection (tone, tempo) was also examined. Results: Patient groups were matched for disease severity. Overall, patients did not differ from controls with regard to basic music processing or for the recognition of facial expressions. Ratings of valence and arousal were similar across groups. In contrast, SD patients were selectively impaired at recognising music conveying negative emotions (sad and scary). Patients with bvFTD did not differ from controls. Conclusion: Recognition of emotions in music appears to be selectively affected in some FTD subgroups more than others, a disturbance of emotion detection which appears to be modality specific. This finding suggests dissociation in the neural networks necessary for the processing of emotions depending on modality.

‘I feel sometimes I am a bad mother’: The affective dimension of immigrant mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taghreed Jamal Al-deen ◽  
Joel Windle
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Emotional Capital ◽  
Children's Schooling

This article identifies the complex emotional dimensions of migrant mothers’ involvement in their children’s education, building on feminist scholarship which affirms the importance of their emotional labour. We present findings from a study of Muslim Iraqi mothers with school-aged children in Australia, based on 47 interviews with 25 immigrant mothers. Drawing on a Bourdieusian conceptual framework, we argue that the reserves of cultural and emotional capital required for effective participation in children’s education can be both consolidated and diminished through the process of migration. Perceived ineffective involvement comes at heavy emotional price, threatening some women’s perceptions of themselves as ‘good mothers’.

The April Uprising: How a Nonviolent Struggle Explains the Transformation of Armed Conflict in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Subedi ◽  
Prakash Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Common Enemy

A plethora of literature explains how armed conflicts terminate in nonviolent political settlements. However, little is known about how and why nonviolence functions as a mechanism of conflict transformation. Using the case study of the 2006 April Uprising (Jana Andolan II) in Nepal, this paper shows how the nonviolent struggle was a vehicle for the termination of the armed conflict that ravaged the country for a decade (1996–2006). The collaboration between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPNM), erstwhile enemies, led to nonviolent collective action, driven by the convergence of interests of these two key actors towards fighting a common enemy: the royal Palace. The paper argues that the nonviolent struggle also transformed strategies, attitudes and behaviour of key actors, including the CPNM, which ultimately transformed conflict issues into peace issues and induced structural changes in the long run. Thus the processes of actor transformation, issue transformation and structural transformation catalysed by the April Uprising explain why and how the nonviolent struggle functioned as a catalyst for the termination of the armed conflict.

Understanding the psychological processes involved in the demobilizing effects of positive cross-group contact

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 447-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Tausch ◽  
Julia C. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Strategic Process ◽  
Group Contact ◽  
Affective Process ◽  
Action Tendencies

AbstractA theoretical framework is required that explains why and how cross-group contact reduces collective action and how the demobilizing effects can be counteracted. We propose that at least two mechanisms are involved: an affective process whereby the positive affect created offsets negative emotions and action tendencies, and a more strategic process whereby individual advancement comes to seem like a possibility.

scholarly journals The Fragility of Self-Respect: Emotional Labour of Workfare Volunteering

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kampen ◽  
Judith Elshout ◽  
Evelien Tonkens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Working Environments

This article contributes to our empirical understanding of self-respect in rising meritocracies by focusing on the experiences of unemployed, low-skilled people recruited as workfare volunteers in the Netherlands. As many theorists have argued, the long-term unemployed struggle to maintain self-esteem. We found that workfare projects that introduce them to voluntary work can help them regain self-respect through four types of emotional labour: feeling respected through their newfound status, enjoying a craft, being able to perform in less stressful working environments, and taking pride in the meaning bestowed by voluntary work. But the emotional labour necessary to experience their situation more positively also increases the risk of experiencing negative emotions, thereby posing new threats to the fragile self-respect of unemployed citizens.

Emotional Consequences of Collective Action Participation

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1587-1598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Becker ◽  
Nicole Tausch ◽  
Ulrich Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Behavioral Consequences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions ◽  
Willingness To Engage

The present research examines the emotional and behavioral consequences of collective action participation. It demonstrates that “positive” and “negative” emotions can be experienced simultaneously as a result of collective action participation, yet it is important to distinguish outgroup-directed from self-directed emotions. Results of two experiments ( N = 71 and N = 101) that manipulated participation in collective action illustrate that whereas collective action participants experience more outgroup-directed anger and contempt, they feel more self-directed positive affect. Furthermore, collective action participation predicted willingness to engage in moderate and radical collective actions in the future. These relations were mediated by outgroup-directed, but not by self-directed, emotions, suggesting that outgroup-directed rather than self-directed emotions play a crucial role in the maintenance of protest behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Caring and emotional labour: Language teachers’ engagement with anxious learners in private language school classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Gkonou ◽  
Elizabeth R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Teacher Engagement ◽  
Private Language ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Emotional Labour

This study examines how a group of eight teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Greece discuss their efforts to address their students’ language anxiety (LA). We found that in most cases, these teachers’ efforts are motivated by an ethic of care (Noddings, 1988, 2005, 2013) in which they seek to construct positive relationships with students in order to help mitigate their students’ LA. Though desirable, such efforts often result in ‘emotional labour’ as teachers suppress their own negative emotions while attending to those of their students. Adopting a dialogical perspective to teacher engagement with anxious learners, we analyse the affective or emotional labour that language teachers often undertake in responding to their students’ displays of LA. Drawing on positioning theory, we explore these concepts through analysing these language teachers’ interview accounts, produced in response to questions related to their students’ LA.

scholarly journals Activism in the time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-305
Author(s):  
Peter R. Grant ◽  
Heather J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Economic ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Emotional Climate ◽  
Social Inequities

In many countries, COVID-19 has amplified the health, economic and social inequities that motivate group-based collective action. We draw upon the SIRDE/IDEAS model of social change to explore how the pandemic might have affected complex reactions to social injustices. We argue that the virus elicits widespread negative emotions which are spread contagiously through social media due to increased social isolation caused by shelter-in-place directives. When an incident occurs which highlights systemic injustices, the prevailing negative emotional climate intensifies anger at these injustices as well as other emotions, which motivates participation in protest actions despite the obvious risk. We discuss how the pandemic might shape both normative and non-normative protests, including radical violent and destructive collective actions. We also discuss how separatism is being encouraged in some countries due to a lack of effective national leadership and speculate that this is partially the result of different patterns of social identification.

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