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Towards a Method for studying Affect in (micro)Politics: The Campfire Chats Project and the Occupy Movement
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-27, 15:59 authored by Anna Feigenbaum, Patrick McCurdy, Fabian FrenzelThis paper begins with a brief review of existing social movement scholarship on the
study of affect that can be applied to protest camps. We then introduce our
Campfire Chats methodology and describe its operationalisation through pilot
runs in Ottawa and Montreal. Following from this, we move into a discussion of
findings arising from this first set of Campfire Chats to explore the roles affect plays
in specific acts of ‘building together’ at Occupy protest camps. We conclude by
looking at the possibilities for expanding this methodological framework more
broadly to study protest camps and related, place-based political groups,
organisations and movements [Taken from Introduction]
History
Citation
Parallax (Special Issue: what moves us), 2013, 19 (2), pp. 21-37Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/School of ManagementVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)