Louise Knops

Protest and the Ambiguous Politics of Indignation

An Empirical and Conceptual Study of Mobilizing Emotions

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781032404875
• ISBN-10: 1032404876
• Artikelnr.: 71267089

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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