Emotions in context: Revolutionary accelerators, hope, moral outrage, and other emotions in the making of Nicaragua's revolution

More than Just the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers

“…9 In other cases where such factors are emphasized, a series of crucial events ("accelerators") are considered as stepping stones to revolution. 10 But this view neglects singular events that lead to rapid political change (metaphorically forging a river directly to revolution).…”

Love and Revolution

“…Even those who accept the transformative potential of love have yet to specify its dynamics or its contribution to building radical alliances (Bystydzienski and Schacht, 2001;Emirbayer and Goldberg, 2005;Goodwin et al, 2001;Reed, 2004). Among the key contributors to this field, Foran (2005: 274) is the most explicit about the connections between love and revolution:…”

“…Their rage intensified when a British committee failed to punish Dyer and local authorities for criminal misconduct, especially when an Indian committee published a report with abundant and dramatic evidence of what had actually happened (Draper, 1985: 201-2;Fein, 1977). These strong feelings about the brutality of British rule served as 'revolutionary accelerators' (Reed, 2004) by expanding the range of people involved in the Indian independence movement. But at this particular historical moment, the limited number of satyagraha practitioners were unable to persuade large segments of the population to combine their sense of indignation about the brutality of the Amritsar massacre with constructive action on the basis of Gandhian love of humanity.…”

The Body and Citizenship in Social Movement Research: Embodied Performances and the Deracialized Self in the Black Civil Rights Movement 1961–1965

“…The cognitive argument has demonstrated that social movement actors form political identities as a way to understand how they are part of a group, and how their shared understandings inform subsequent political action and strategies (Eyerman and Jamison 1991;Taylor and Whittier 1992). The emotions argument emphasized the role of affect in building a sense of community, solidarity bonds between members, moral shocks for recruitment, role of audience emotions in a performance, as well as how emotions can lead to a movement's decline (Blee 1998;Jasper 1998;Hercus 1999;Goodwin, Jasper, and Polletta 2000;Klatch 2004;Reed 2004;Reger 2004;Eyerman 2006). The cognitive and emotional approaches both reproduce the mind/body binary and fail to explain how knowledge is learned and mastered, the discursive and embodied aspects of emotions, and what happens to emotions after their initial use.…”