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Wall, Illan Rua (2021) Atmospheres of protest. In: Rai, Shirin and Gluhovic, Milija and Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford Handbooks . New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190863456
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Abstract
Commentators often remark upon the ‘festive’ or ‘tense’ atmospheres of major protests. This seems to signify the general outlook of the protestors, or the relations between them and the police. It signals the potential of the protests to unfold in a peaceful joyous manner or with violence. While ‘festive’ and ‘tense’ are useful ways of thinking about protest atmospheres, they are often used in a highly reductive manner. The literature on atmospheres from social movement studies also tends to reproduce this reductive idea of atmosphere, where they can be understood through uni-dimensional metrics. This chapter discusses the social movement literature, before trying to open the debate about atmospheres of protest more widely. Ultimately, the argument is that there is a much greater variety of atmospheric conditions in moments of protest. These atmospheres nestle together, changing and interacting as the conditions shift. Atmospheres are the affective tone of space. They are produced by those gathered in that space, by the spatial dynamics and the affective social conditions. Atmospheres affect those present, changing their capacity to act. Thus, it is important that we begin to understand their potential more carefully.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Protest movements, Atmosphere, Social movements, Critical legal studies, Mood (Psychology) | ||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York, NY | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780190863456 | ||||||
Book Title: | The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance | ||||||
Editor: | Rai, Shirin and Gluhovic, Milija and Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 April 2021 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 728 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is a draft of a chapter that has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the forthcoming book The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance edited by Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward.due for publication 08/04/2021, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-politics-and-performance-9780190863456?cc=gb&lang=en&# | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 September 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 April 2023 | ||||||
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