Emotions of protest in times of crisis representation dislocation and remedy in the Greek squares movement.pdf (2.23 MB)
Emotions of protest in times of crisis: representation, dislocation and remedy in the Greek ‘squares movement’
journal contribution
posted on 2022-05-06, 13:04 authored by Giorgos Katsambekis, Christos Iliadis, Ioannis Balampanidis, Evthymios PapataxiarchisThis paper focuses on the 2011 ‘squares movement’ in Greece to enquire into the importance of (popular) sovereignty for mobilized individuals in relation to representation and crisis. We draw on tools of political theory and discourse analysis, adopt a ‘bottom up’ ethnographic perspective, and incorporate insights from social movement studies and the sociology of emotions. The aim is to reconstruct the key narratives and frames used by individuals to make sense of their motivations and aspirations, but also to trace the movement’s legacy. Our data is drawn from archival research in media outlets and semi-structured interviews with individuals that participated in or observed the ‘squares movement’. Our findings highlight the importance of the moment of dislocation and its destabilizing effect on individuals, while stressing the positive/productive aspect of crisis. Using emotions as a thread that runs through the mobilization and links it to subsequent ones, we highlight the explanatory value of our analysis for understanding the radical realignment of the political system and the rise of anti-establishment parties, and show how a cycle of tensions at the heart of representation that opened up in 2010 seems to have now closed.
Funding
Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme ‘Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020’ in the context of the project ‘Transformations of national and popular sovereignty in times of crisis’ (MIS 5004286)
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- International Relations, Politics and History
Published in
Political Research ExchangeVolume
4Issue
1Publisher
Taylor & FrancisVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Rights holder
© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Taylor & Francis under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2022-01-24Publication date
2022-02-28Copyright date
2022eISSN
2474-736XPublisher version
Language
- en
Depositor
Dr Georgios Katsampekis. Deposit date: 5 May 2022Article number
2035192Usage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedLicence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC