Fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6220174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jochen Kleres (Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore , Firenze, Italy), Åsa Wettergren (0000-0002-5495-0779, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 507-519 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social movement studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14742837.2017.1344546 |
| OpenAlex | W2730682813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 220 |
| References cited | 40 |
Analyzing fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism, we consider these pivotal emotions to climate activists. The way they are managed affects activists’ motivations and mobilizing strategies. This argument builds on the theoretical premise that emotions energize and orient all actions. Qualitative interviews were carried out with climate activists in Denmark, Sweden, and at two UNFCCC Conferences of Youth. Our analysis shows that fear motivates action by raising awareness of the threat of climate catastrophe. The paralyzing potential of fear is mediated by hope: Hope propels action while (collective) action generates hope and manages fear. The danger-alerting capacity of fear is embraced ‘internally’, but rejected as an effective emotion in mobilization. Instead, a hopeful ‘positive message’ is emphasized by activists from the Global North. Anger is treated cautiously as an emotion to be pacified/transformed and guilt/blaming is largely rejected too. There is a different pattern in the southern narratives. Here hope, guilt, and anger combine to manage acute fear. Hope lies in collective action but also in the angry ascription of responsibility to the North. Contrasting the North, acute fear is thus managed by anger. Different patterns of emotion management derive from different political and socio-material contexts/experiences
Action (physics · Anger · Argument (complex analysis · Ascription · Collective action · Epistemology · Indignation · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · History of Emotions Research · Law · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 220 |
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| Citations per year | 27,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 216 |