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Emotions, protest, democracy: Collective identities in contemporary Spain

Eklundh, Emmy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5824-6503 2019. Emotions, protest, democracy: Collective identities in contemporary Spain. Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory, Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 10.4324/9781351205719

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Book Type: Authored Book
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects: J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Additional Information: E Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351205719
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780815383635
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 08:43
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128137

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