1st Edition

Resistance and Emotions Interrogating Crossroads and Social Change

Edited By Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen, Mona Lilja Copyright 2018
    152 Pages
    by Routledge

    152 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book discusses different ways in which the cross-roads between emotions and resistance can be theorised. While the sociological field focuses primarily on emotions that are entangled in the relationship between the individual and collective, the cultural studies field has recently started to emphasise affects as a ‘rescue’ from the deterministic aspect of the poststructuralist approach (in which language decides everything) (Hemmings 2005, 2014). Scholars promoting the ‘affective turn’ argue that affects and interpretations are inseparable. By taking affects as the point of departure, it is argued that it is possible to show how bodies move in their own ways, but still in relation to others. Departing from this, it becomes interesting to explore how emotions are involved in different power relations and how they feed resistance. If we accept that emotions and interpretations are entangled and inseparable then we must investigate emotions as powerful forces of resistance.

    The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Political Power.

    1. Emotions and resistance: An introduction,

    Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen and Mona Lilja

    2. Exploring self-loyalty in the context of social acceleration: theorising loyalties as emotions and resistance

    Markus Arvidson and Jonas Axelsson

    3. Norm-critical rationality: emotions and the institutional influence of queer resistance

    Andreas Henriksson

    4. Resistance against material artefacts: university spaces, administrative online systems and emotions

    Anna-Lena Haraldsson and Mona Lilja

    5. Martyrdom and emotional resistance in the case of Northern Kurdistan: hidden and public emotional resistance

    Minoo Koefoed

    6. Everyday resistance in psychiatry through harbouring strategies

    Mona Lindqvist and Eva Olsson

    7. Frontstage and backstage emotion management in civil resistance

    Majken Jul Sørensen and Andrew Rigby

    8. Campaigning for cooperatives as resistance to neoliberal capitalism

    Kristin Wiksell

    9. Some concluding reflections

    Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen and Mona Lilja

    Biography

    Mikael Baaz is an Associate Professor in International Law and an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies. He currently works as a senior lecturer in International Law at the Department of Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and as an affiliated senior research fellow in Political Science at the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West.

    Satu Heikkinen is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden. Heikkinen’s research interests are ageing, power and categorisation among others. She is currently writing about ageism and age discrimination.

    Mona Lilja is a Professor in Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Lilja’s area of interest is the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance.