Activist Affect. (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Harris, Anne; Jones, Stacy Holman
• Other Names: Holman Jones Stacy guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 25:Number 6(2019)
• Page Start: 563
• Page End: 565
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: affect -- activism -- autoethnography -- movement; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800418800753
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This brief essay considers what new materialist thought and affect theory in particular might bring to activist politics, particularly the need to sustain the energy and power of public assembly in the form of political marches into a movement that persists in and through time. We consider the site of both terrorist and activist acts not only as a public space—or stage—upon which both acts occur, but instead as public body that keeps the movement moving.