Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism

The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2363802
AutoresMinyoung Kim (0000-0002-4823-2973, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen68
Número1-3
Páginas102-122
Fecha de publicación2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07311214251321445
OpenAlexW4409046477
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas62

This paper examines the interplay between emotions and situated contexts in sustained social movement participation. Expanding on previous research focused on evolving emotions during protests, I explore movement contexts and emotions that persist after such visible activities. Through in-depth interviews with family members in South Korea who engaged in activism after sudden losses in various disasters, this paper traces how emotions evolve to sustain activism as contextual shifts occur. Three situated contexts are identified, each linked to situational emotions: guilt, gratitude, and a sense of obligation. A sense of indebtedness runs across the contexts in connection with each corresponding situational emotion. Initially, bereaved families grapple with guilt for failing to prevent the losses and become determined to address the systemic causes. As they engage in collective actions, support from allies heightens gratitude, fueling further engagement. Lastly, a sense of obligation toward the public to forestall similar incidents emerges, referred to as the victims' sense of social indebtedness , sustaining prolonged engagement

Aesthetics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Situated · Social movement · Sociology · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology