11. Les victimes entre émotions et stratégies

The politics of street art in Yemen (2012–2017)

“…More generally, these campaigns have acted as effective devices for bolstering political awareness using public space, provoking the participation of the public and “causing/inciting affective reactions that foster and extend the debate about subjects worth of moral and political concern” (Traïni, 2009, p. 20). The fact that Murad Subay was rapidly joined by teenagers, young artists, workers, intellectuals, and activists, and progressively by passersby and even policemen or the military at work in the streets, is also linked to practices observed at Change Square in 2011.…”

“…This interpretation of Murad Subay’s practice might not coincide with local dynamics of “visibility” and access to social “recognition” (Honneth, 1995). Although the differences of perception are not at the center of this study, it is worth stressing that they highlight the ways in which what is observed internationally as urban and public art is locally used as a sensitizing device (Traïni, 2009). Connecting the study of emotions, collective action, and mobilization, 6 French sociologist Christophe Traïni (2009) defines these types of devices as “all the material support, the placement of objects, and the staging techniques that the militants exploit, in order to arouse the kind of affective reactions which predispose those who experience them to join or support the cause being defended” (p. 15, Traïni, 2016).…”

“…Although the differences of perception are not at the center of this study, it is worth stressing that they highlight the ways in which what is observed internationally as urban and public art is locally used as a sensitizing device (Traïni, 2009). Connecting the study of emotions, collective action, and mobilization, 6 French sociologist Christophe Traïni (2009) defines these types of devices as “all the material support, the placement of objects, and the staging techniques that the militants exploit, in order to arouse the kind of affective reactions which predispose those who experience them to join or support the cause being defended” (p. 15, Traïni, 2016). As opposed to studying sensitizing devices in a given mobilization, in the following pages, I explore street art as a device used to express issues that become considered as worthy of collectively being shared and denounced, and the potential capacity of mobilization that this use of painting on public spaces can have in the short or long term.…”

Produire la solidarité par l’image ? Les caisses de grève et leurs représentations comme dispositifs de sensibilisation militants (2016-2020)

“…plusieurs expériences récentes, on éclairera la manière dont une même contrainte de recherche de fonds amène pourtant les organisateurs des différentes caisses à produire des dispositifs de sensibilisation (Traïni, 2009) spécifiques, destinés à chaque fois à un public déterminé.…”