In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion.
The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may
have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the
world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is
clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again.
There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus
has mostly been on the calculating brain--a byproduct of
structuralism and cognitive studies--and less on the feeling brain.
James M. Jasper's work changes that, as he pushes the boundaries of
our present understanding of the social world. In The Emotions of
Protest, Jasper lays out his argument, showing that it is
impossible to separate cognition and emotion. At a minimum, he
says, we cannot understand the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street or
pro and anti-Trump rallies without first studying the fears and
anger, moral outrage, and patterns of hate and love that their
members feel. This is a book centered on protest, but Jasper also
points toward broader paths of inquiry that have the power to
transform the way social scientists picture social life and action.
Through emotions, he says, we are embedded in a variety of
environmental, bodily, social, moral, and temporal contexts, as we
feel our way both consciously and unconsciously toward some things
and away from others. Politics and collective action have always
been a kind of laboratory for working out models of human action
more generally, and emotions are no exception. Both hearts and
minds rely on the same feelings racing through our central nervous
systems. Protestors have emotions, like everyone else, but theirs
are thinking hearts, not bleeding hearts. Brains can feel, and
hearts can think.
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