28/03/2025
Alice Poma y Tommaso Gravante: The Role of Emotions in Climate Activism in The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action.
Emotions are part of action; they can mobilize and demobilize, energize or deenergize, strengthen collective identity or divide activists, and they also play a key role in strategic decision making and lifestyle choices. The analysis of the emotional dimension of social movements allows comprehending how activists understand the world around them, give meaning to their experience, and act consequently. This chapter discusses climate emotions (i.e., those that people can feel with the experience of climate change), from a sociocultural approach, focusing on their role in climate activism, and not on their effects on mental health or the nonactivist population.
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