Louise Knops
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Knops |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Knops |
| SIGNATURE | KNOPS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2495-7993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Travailler (sur) les émotions écologiques, entre psychologisation du politique et désobéissance épistémique
De quoi l’engouement autour des éco-émotions est-il le nom ? Dans un contexte où les approches affectives de l’environnement connaissent un retentissement grandissant, nous soulignons un paradoxe qui les traverse : si elles peuvent rompre avec les cadres scientifiques et politiques dominants et entrer en convergence avec des épistémologies subalternes, elles risquent néanmoins de contribuer à une dépolitisation des enjeux écologiques. Partant de …
Role Reversal: When Activists Are Treated Like Criminals. Conversations on the Criminalization of Environmental Activism in Belgium, France, and the UK
Recent years have seen a hardening of repressive and surveillance measures against protest and contentious activities in Western societies. Although these measures are not socially neutral and primarily target marginalized populations, they are now increasingly targeting environmental activists and the latest wave of resistance practices that denounce the capitalist contradictions at the heart of liberal democracies. In this piece, we bring toget…
Capitalism at the roots: The crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists
Recent climate activism has played a key role in denouncing the unsustainability of representative democracy. Previous research has investigated the attitudes of climate activists towards representative institutions along the conceptual distinction between ‘environmental’ and ‘ecological’ democracy. Yet, little attention has been paid to climate activists’ critique of capitalism and how it relates to demands for democratic reform. Our paper addre…
Between hopes and systemic unsustainability: An analysis of citizens assemblies’ potential on climate change
Citizens' assemblies (CAs) dealing with climate change have been mushrooming throughout Western democracies. In this chapter, we take stock of recent empirical experiences of CAs to further inspire the theoretical discussions on their potential to respond to the climate crisis. We adopt a problem-based approach to identify four sets of problems which are linked to climate change and the "governance of unsustainability" that characterizes current …
Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation
Despite a political context marked by affective explicitness and an ongoing affective turn in social sciences, representation theory rarely takes affects and emotions into account. In this article, I respond to this gap by focusing on indignation, as a key affect of the crisis of representation. Building on recent constructivist theories of representation and affect theory, I unpack three affective dynamics of indignation which play a constitutiv…
The Fear We Feel Everyday: Affective Temporalities in Fridays for Future
In the latest wave of climate change activism, affects and time are everywhere. Most recent works have focused on these dimensions separately, the intersection between time and affectivity underexplored. This author argues that focusing on affects and emotions is crucial to understand the political implications of the temporal narratives drawn by climate activists in a way that complements the politicization vs. depoliticization binary in this co…
Indignation as Affective Transformation: An Affect-Theoretical Approach to the Belgian Yellow Vest Movement
In social movement research, indignation features prominently as an affect that triggers protest and mobilization. Yet, scholarly accounts rarely unpack the precise ways in which indignation performs these roles, and how it transforms individuals who join mobilization. This article conceptualizes indignation as a moment of affective transformation, based on affect-theoretical insights and drawing on the empirical analysis of the Belgian yellow ve…
Stuck between the modern and the terrestrial: The indignation of the youth for climate movement
The dramatic impacts of climate change have pushed thousands of young activists to shout out their indignation. These mobilizations have become the symbol of our ‘tipping era’: a clash of worlds between attachments to modernity and attempts to become ‘terrestrial’ (Latour, 2018) to stay within ecological boundaries. In this field, there has been an increasing body of theoretical work but empirical research is still in its infancy, providing littl…
Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma
Resentment is a complex, multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness and feelings of anger are central. When linked to politics, it has predominantly been associated with the alleged “crisis of representative democracy” and populism. However, recent studies have shown that resentment can intervene positively in people’s relations to politics and political institutions by facilitating certain types of political participation (Cap…
The Radical Right versus the Media: From Media Critique to Claims of (Mis)Representation
Criticizing mainstream media for their ‘lies’ or ‘fake news’ has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as a whole and to matters of political representation. How do radical right actors construct a sense of political misrepresentation through their critiq…
Stuck between the modern and the terrestrial: The indignation of the youth for climate movement
The dramatic impacts of climate change have pushed thousands of young activists to shout out their indignation. These mobilizations have become the symbol of our ‘tipping era’: a clash of worlds between attachments to modernity and attempts to become ‘terrestrial’ (Latour, 2018) to stay within ecological boundaries. In this field, there has been an increasing body of theoretical work but empirical research is still in its infancy, providing littl…
Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma
Resentment is a complex, multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness and feelings of anger are central. When linked to politics, it has predominantly been associated with the alleged “crisis of representative democracy” and populism. However, recent studies have shown that resentment can intervene positively in people’s relations to politics and political institutions by facilitating certain types of political participation (Cap…
The Fear We Feel Everyday: Affective Temporalities in Fridays for Future
In the latest wave of climate change activism, affects and time are everywhere. Most recent works have focused on these dimensions separately, the intersection between time and affectivity underexplored. This author argues that focusing on affects and emotions is crucial to understand the political implications of the temporal narratives drawn by climate activists in a way that complements the politicization vs. depoliticization binary in this co…
Indignation as Affective Transformation: An Affect-Theoretical Approach to the Belgian Yellow Vest Movement
In social movement research, indignation features prominently as an affect that triggers protest and mobilization. Yet, scholarly accounts rarely unpack the precise ways in which indignation performs these roles, and how it transforms individuals who join mobilization. This article conceptualizes indignation as a moment of affective transformation, based on affect-theoretical insights and drawing on the empirical analysis of the Belgian yellow ve…
Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation
Despite a political context marked by affective explicitness and an ongoing affective turn in social sciences, representation theory rarely takes affects and emotions into account. In this article, I respond to this gap by focusing on indignation, as a key affect of the crisis of representation. Building on recent constructivist theories of representation and affect theory, I unpack three affective dynamics of indignation which play a constitutiv…
The Radical Right versus the Media: From Media Critique to Claims of (Mis)Representation
Criticizing mainstream media for their ‘lies’ or ‘fake news’ has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as a whole and to matters of political representation. How do radical right actors construct a sense of political misrepresentation through their critiq…
Capitalism at the roots: The crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists
Recent climate activism has played a key role in denouncing the unsustainability of representative democracy. Previous research has investigated the attitudes of climate activists towards representative institutions along the conceptual distinction between ‘environmental’ and ‘ecological’ democracy. Yet, little attention has been paid to climate activists’ critique of capitalism and how it relates to demands for democratic reform. Our paper addre…
The Radical Right versus the Media: From Media Critique to Claims of (Mis)Representation
Criticizing mainstream media for their ‘lies’ or ‘fake news’ has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as a whole and to matters of political representation. How do radical right actors construct a sense of political misrepresentation through their critiq…
Stuck between the modern and the terrestrial: The indignation of the youth for climate movement
The dramatic impacts of climate change have pushed thousands of young activists to shout out their indignation. These mobilizations have become the symbol of our ‘tipping era’: a clash of worlds between attachments to modernity and attempts to become ‘terrestrial’ (Latour, 2018) to stay within ecological boundaries. In this field, there has been an increasing body of theoretical work but empirical research is still in its infancy, providing littl…
Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma
Resentment is a complex, multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness and feelings of anger are central. When linked to politics, it has predominantly been associated with the alleged “crisis of representative democracy” and populism. However, recent studies have shown that resentment can intervene positively in people’s relations to politics and political institutions by facilitating certain types of political participation (Cap…
Indignation as Affective Transformation: An Affect-Theoretical Approach to the Belgian Yellow Vest Movement
In social movement research, indignation features prominently as an affect that triggers protest and mobilization. Yet, scholarly accounts rarely unpack the precise ways in which indignation performs these roles, and how it transforms individuals who join mobilization. This article conceptualizes indignation as a moment of affective transformation, based on affect-theoretical insights and drawing on the empirical analysis of the Belgian yellow ve…
Between hopes and systemic unsustainability: An analysis of citizens assemblies’ potential on climate change
Citizens' assemblies (CAs) dealing with climate change have been mushrooming throughout Western democracies. In this chapter, we take stock of recent empirical experiences of CAs to further inspire the theoretical discussions on their potential to respond to the climate crisis. We adopt a problem-based approach to identify four sets of problems which are linked to climate change and the "governance of unsustainability" that characterizes current …
Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation
Despite a political context marked by affective explicitness and an ongoing affective turn in social sciences, representation theory rarely takes affects and emotions into account. In this article, I respond to this gap by focusing on indignation, as a key affect of the crisis of representation. Building on recent constructivist theories of representation and affect theory, I unpack three affective dynamics of indignation which play a constitutiv…
The Fear We Feel Everyday: Affective Temporalities in Fridays for Future
In the latest wave of climate change activism, affects and time are everywhere. Most recent works have focused on these dimensions separately, the intersection between time and affectivity underexplored. This author argues that focusing on affects and emotions is crucial to understand the political implications of the temporal narratives drawn by climate activists in a way that complements the politicization vs. depoliticization binary in this co…
Capitalism at the roots: The crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists
Recent climate activism has played a key role in denouncing the unsustainability of representative democracy. Previous research has investigated the attitudes of climate activists towards representative institutions along the conceptual distinction between ‘environmental’ and ‘ecological’ democracy. Yet, little attention has been paid to climate activists’ critique of capitalism and how it relates to demands for democratic reform. Our paper addre…
Travailler (sur) les émotions écologiques, entre psychologisation du politique et désobéissance épistémique
De quoi l’engouement autour des éco-émotions est-il le nom ? Dans un contexte où les approches affectives de l’environnement connaissent un retentissement grandissant, nous soulignons un paradoxe qui les traverse : si elles peuvent rompre avec les cadres scientifiques et politiques dominants et entrer en convergence avec des épistémologies subalternes, elles risquent néanmoins de contribuer à une dépolitisation des enjeux écologiques. Partant de …
Role Reversal: When Activists Are Treated Like Criminals. Conversations on the Criminalization of Environmental Activism in Belgium, France, and the UK
Recent years have seen a hardening of repressive and surveillance measures against protest and contentious activities in Western societies. Although these measures are not socially neutral and primarily target marginalized populations, they are now increasingly targeting environmental activists and the latest wave of resistance practices that denounce the capitalist contradictions at the heart of liberal democracies. In this piece, we bring toget…
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