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Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction
- 2024
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Ingår i: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. - 1474-2837 .- 1474-2829.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent years have seen the rise of a 'postapocalyptic environmentalism', which sees environmental catastrophe as ongoing or inevitable and therefore rejects the hope of avoiding that catastrophe. So far, research on this form of environmentalism has pointed to the paradoxes and ambivalences involved in its rejection of hope, as well as to environmental activists' difficulties translating non-hope into movement strategy. However, postapocalyptic environmentalists' efforts of practicing non-hope have yet to be investigated. Drawing on interviews with participants in a Swedish online environmentalist network committed to 'collapsology', the present paper therefore investigates postapocalyptic environmentalist non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction. The paper approaches non-hope as a form of emotional deintegration, in which collapsologists seek to dehabituate the hope and optimism that inform the dominant emotive-cognitive frame of environmental politics in Western industrial societies. They do so by vigilantly maintaining feelings of certainty about the inevitability of civilizational collapse. More specifically, in rejecting hope, the interviewed participants articulate this non-hope as a form of conviction. However, the participants present this conviction as haunted by doubts, dissonances, and ambivalences, and therefore as needing vigilant maintenance efforts. Such efforts include what I call 'impossibility work'. Implications for further research on postapocalyptic environmentalism and related movements are discussed.
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Fina och fula känslor? Historiska essäer: Eva Österberg
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 57:3–4, s. 431-434
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Metaphorical highlighting and hiding of emotions in online racist discourse
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Ingår i: 12th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination,”. Prague, Czech Republic: 25–28 August.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present paper aims to examine the role of online discursive interactions in processes leading to extreme racist violence, focusing specifically on the articulation and repression of emotions taking place in online arenas of racist discourse. The empirical material is collected from the Swedish discussion website Flashback and consists of racist exchanges taking place there prior to, and in conjunction with, actual incidents of violence against Roma EU-migrants that took place in Sweden during 2014. The paper builds on emotion-sociological theory and research on extreme violence that emphasize the role of repression and transmutation of some emotions (e.g. shame, empathy) and the articulation and cultivation of others (e.g. anger, in- group joy, pride) in processes leading to such violence. Furthermore, these perspectives are combined with a notion of the repression of emotions as a discursive activity. Methodologically, emotional articulations in the discussion threads are examined using conceptual metaphor theory, and the analysis focuses on how metaphorical articulations highlight some emotions and aspects of them while at the same time hiding others. Preliminary results suggest that metaphorical articulations of emotions in online racist discourse are not only expressive of the emotional dynamics leading to racist violence, but also involved in producing these emotional dynamics. Thus, online discussion forums may be arenas where negative emotions are not only channeled onto “enemy” targets, but also repressed, transmuted, rearticulated, and therefore, in a sense, themselves constructed there.
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Offentlighetens gränser: Fem kultursociologiska studier av kontroverser kring litterära självframställningar i Sverige, 1976-2008
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation deals with normative boundaries in the Swedish literary public sphere between 1976 and 2008. One aim of the study is to map changes and continuities in the boundary between public and private as defined, defended, and contested by literary critics, editors, publishers, writers, journalists, and various other participants in public discussions of literature. A further aim is to suggest a sociological explanation of the normative changes that are discerned in the course of analysis. Thus, the dissertation not only focuses on normative boundaries between “civilized” and “uncivilized” literary self-expression, but also on the contextual boundaries of participation in literary debates. On the contextual level, the literary public sphere is conceptualized as an establishment or “good society”, held together and separated from outsiders by common norms of civilized literary expression but subject to varying degrees of pressure from below. Increased contacts between established critics and new media participants – enabled by tendencies of media convergence, a feminization of the journalism and literary criticism professions, and a “demotic” turn in media culture – are hypothesized to contribute to an increased pressure from below, leading in turn to dissociations from the established civility norms and contestations of these norms from the standpoint of a radical ideal of authenticity. Such a normative shift, it is argued, might be conceptualized as informalization. The dissertation’s empirical focus is upon debates over controversial autobiographical literary works in Swedish metropolitan newspapers from 1976 to 2008. Five cases of debates are identified and analyzed in chronological order. The analyses of the debates are built on a qualitative computer aided text analysis of 169 explicitly evaluative articles published in the culture sections of Swedish metropolitan newspapers. Though the results of the study by no means indicate dissolution of the normative boundary between public and private in the literary public sphere, the analyses suggest certain tendencies of change on the normative level. On the one hand, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the normative boundaries of civilized literary self-expression were mainly drawn in aesthetic terms; in order to be seen as civilized, literary autobiographies had to conceal the inappropriate bodily needs, desires, and emotions of the author by means of aesthetic form. In the studied cases from the 1990s and early 2000s, however, these aesthetic demands seemed to face increasing competition from a moral concern with the integrity of others depicted in the autobiographical works, a concern increasingly expressed by literary critics and lawyers calling for stricter moral boundaries in literature. This moralization tendency is interpreted as a move from aesthetic “rules of precedence”, exempting literature from general moral norms, to moral “rules for all”, making no distinction between literary and other kinds of publicness. On the other hand, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, authentic openness about emotional experiences in literary self-expression had been acceptable only if it was held to be of common concern (for instance if it provided opportunities for positive political identification). In the cases from the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, the ideal of authenticity in literary self-expression was radicalized; direct authentic self-expression was seen increasingly as an anti-elitist action, a popular disclosure and confrontation of the duplicity of the cultural establishment dominating the official literary public sphere. This ideal of anti-elitist authenticity was most clearly expressed by actors who were closer to the margins of the literary public sphere, for instance blog writers, editorial writers recruited from the blogosphere, or popular media figures. All this indicates a demotic informalizing pressure from below, enabled by a general tendency towards convergence between literature and other media.
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