Tipo: articulo

Año: 2026

Autores: Tommaso Gravante y Alice Poma 

Resumen: This article proposes an analysis of the emotion management strategies that Mexican climate activists employ to overcome the emotions they feel by living in the climate crisis, particularly in their social context, all of which may be detrimental to activism. The theoretical framework combines Arlie Hochschild’s emotion management theory, commonly applied in social movement studies, and the contributions of social psychology that examine emotion regulation strategies, which have been used in the study of climate emotions. The article shows how and why climate activists do emotion management to avoid eco-paralysis, burnout, or demobilisation. The interviews cited in the article are part of our five-year research (2019–2023) on emotions and climate activism in Mexico using a methodological pluralism design. When possible, we also compare the common patterns and differences among Global South and North climate activists.

Tipo: libro

Año: 2026

Autor: Alice Poma

Resumen: Este libro muestra que las emociones son un elemento central en la construcción de otro mundo. A lo largo de diez capítulos, se ofrecen ideas, conceptos, ejemplos, cuentos y ejercicios para tomar conciencia del carácter colectivo y transformador de las emociones, llegando a la idea final de que experimentar otro sentir es una manera de construir y cultivar una sociedad más justa. Esta obra aspira a ser un estímulo para salir de la jaula en la que nos han atrapado con el miedo y la resignación frente al cambio social y las promesas falsas de felicidad y esperanza.

Tipo: capítulo

Año: 2025

Autor: Tommaso Gravante y Alice Poma

Resumen: The aim of the chapter is to show how Mexican women activists’ emotions are constructed by gender and sociocultural context. The theory applied in this chapter is based on understanding emotions as sociocultural constructs (Hochschild, 1979, 1983) and on applying different typologies that have proven very useful when analyzing the different emotions that activists come to feel (Jasper, 2018). Along the chapter, we will discuss how Mexican women activists construct their moral emotions, such as fear, pain and anger, and some emotion management strategies they use to manage them, showing how these emotions interact with affective commitments, such as love, sisterhood, and trust. We will conclude by discussing some patterns we have observed in the changing emotional culture of the new generation of activists which are breaking some gender feeling rules.

Tipo: capítulo

Año: 2025

Autor: Alice Poma y Tommaso Gravante

Resumen: Emotions are part of action; they can mobilize and demobilize, energize or deenergize, strengthen collective identity or divide activists, and they also play a key role in strategic decision making and lifestyle choices. The analysis of the emotional dimension of social movements allows comprehending how activists understand the world around them, give meaning to their experience, and act consequently. This chapter discusses climate emotions (i.e., those that people can feel with the experience of climate change), from a sociocultural approach, focusing on their role in climate activism, and not on their effects on mental health or the nonactivist population.

Tipo: articulo

Año: 2025

Autores: Mariana Castañeda, Alice Poma y Tommaso Gravante

Resumen: El objetivo del artículo es analizar el proceso de movilización en defensa del último río vivo de la Ciudad de México yde los bosques que lo rodean por parte de los vecinos enuna zona urbana marginal. El diseño de investigación sebasa en el enfoque cultural de la protesta y el análisis dela dimensión emocional del conflicto. La relevancia de los resultados de esta investigación reside en el hecho de que el conflicto analizado más que involucrar valores biosféricos se caracteriza por aspectos que incluyen la relación entre bosque/río e identidad colectiva, los agravios históricos que sufre la comunidad, y la relación con las instituciones.Esto conduce a que el conflicto sea enmarcado por los protagonistas como una injusticia social, donde la defensa del río y del bosque es un compromiso moral para defender su propia identidad y dignidad.