The victims' shoes trope and emerging solidarity in political protest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6306237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lea David (0000-0003-3892-4420) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-78 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.13061 |
| OpenAlex | W4403802387 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
By providing an overview of the rich and surprising ways in which the victims' shoes trope becomes utilised in political protests as the focus of interaction ritual chains, this article elaborates on the three distinct ways through which moral communities of solidarity position themselves. Firstly, moral communities are often formed around aspects of large‐scale atrocities such as commemoration, victimhood and past injustices that, I argue, strengthen nationalist sentiments. The second type of moral communities of solidarity are those that demand ‘rights’ and claim ‘duties’ for promoting particular sectoral agendas. In the third type, the shoes serve to build solidarities that are future‐oriented and aim at promoting universal human rights. By using Goffman's Frame Theory and Collins' Interaction Ritual Chain Theory, this article analyses protests from around the world in which the victims' shoes trope has been utilised to tackle a wide range of subjects—gun and domestic violence, unemployment, Covid‐19 policies, institutional abuse, road safety, commemorations, antiwar and climate protests and more
Art · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Trope (literature · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Conflict and Governance
Cultivating differences
A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles
The Emotions of Protest
The Implicated Subject
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Caring, Control, and Clinicians' Influence
Frame analysis
The Past Can't Heal Us
The Rise of Organised Brutality
Moral Remembrance and New Inequalities
From Combat Boots to Civilian Shoes
Climate change, environmental violence and genocide
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
Images of Rupture between East and West
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Ritual, Emotion, Violence
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Recruiting Strangers and Friends
Framing Processes and Social Movements
Competitive Framing Processes in the Abortion Debate
Multi-Organizational Fields and Social Movement Organization Frame Content
Toward a Historical Sociology of Social Situations
Heroes, villains and naked nations
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