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EmoAcciones climáticas - Coloquio de investigación sobre emociones y crisis climática

Coordinan: Tommaso Gravante y Alice Poma

Docencia

Curso de educación continua: "Cómo construir un proyecto de investigación en activismo y alternativas de base desde el enfoque sociocultural."

2023

Emociones y alianzas inesperadas en el activismo de base - Deborah Gould

17 de noviembre de 12 a 13 Deborah Gould (UC Santa Cruz) Emociones y alianzas inesperadas en el activismo de base

PUBLICACIONES

Artículos

Feeling the climate crisis can be overwhelming. Emotion management in climate activism

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.

Capítulos en libros

Emotions, gender and politics in Mexican women’s collectives.

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.

Capítulos en libros

The Role of Emotions in Climate Activism

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.