Protest and the Ambiguous Politics of Indignation - An Empirical and Conceptual Study of Mobilizing Emotions

Drawing on fieldwork among four movements in Belgium (2017-2021) - The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the radical-right movement Schild & Vrienden - this book investigates both the meanings and implications of indignation in the context of mobilization.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. The politicality of indignation: edges and ambiguities 2. What indignation looks like and how to study its politicality 3. Indignation as transformation: power, escape and agency 4. Indignation on behalf of others: dignity, representation and democracy 5. Indignation in the Anthropocene: denial, anxiety and planetary bodies 6. Media-indignation: weaponization, righteousness and subalterneity 7. Indignation, betrayal and conflict Methods Appendix

About the author

Louise Knops is Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB). She is also lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Summary

Drawing on fieldwork among four movements in Belgium (2017-2021) – The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the radical-right movement Schild & Vrienden - this book investigates both the meanings and implications of indignation in the context of mobilization.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Knops, Louise (Universite Catholique De Louvain an Knops, Knops Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032404875
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240487-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Belgium, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Pressure groups & lobbying