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Emotions, Protest, Democracy - Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain (Paperback)
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Emotions, Protest, Democracy - Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
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With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in
Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key
to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case. Since
2011, the Spanish political landscape has been redrawn. What
started as the Indignados movement has now transformed into the
party Podemos, which claims to address important deficits in
popular representation. By creating space for emotions, the
movement and the party have made this a key feature of their
political subjectivity. Emotions and affect, however, are often
viewed as either purely instrumental to political goals or
completely detached from 'real' politics. This book argues that the
hierarchy between the rational and the emotional works to sediment
exclusionary practices in politics, deeming some forms of political
expressions more worthy than others. Using radical theories of
democracy, Emmy Eklundh masterfully tackles this problem and
constructs an analytical framework based on the concept of visceral
ties, which sees emotions and affect as constitutive of any
collective identity. She later demonstrates empirically, using both
ethnographic method and social media analysis, how the movement
Indignados is different from the political party Podemos with
regards to emotions and affect, but that both are suffering from a
broader devaluation of emotional expressions in political life.
Bridging social and political theory, Emotions, Protest, Democracy:
Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain provides one of the few
in-depth accounts of the transition from the movement Indignados to
party Podemos, and the role of emotions in contemporary Spanish and
European politics.
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