Safer Spaces, Feminist Movements and Emotions

Drawing on a participatory action research conducted in Italy and Spain among feminist spaces, this book examines the production of safer spaces and the underlying infrastructure of affect and emotions that shape, enable, and support collective action.

Autorentext

Giada Bonu Rosenkranz is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Horizon project "FIERCE. Feminist movements revitilizing democracy in Europe," at the Scuola Normale Superiore. After participating in the Master's Program in Gender Studies and Politics at Roma Tre, she received her Ph.D. in political science and sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore and is part of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Her research focuses on the relationship between feminist movements and democracy with a focus on participatory methodologies. She is part of the editorial board of the journal on feminist studies, DWF - donnawomanfemme.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Feminism, safer spaces, and emotions in times of conservative backlash

2 Bridging feminist theory, social movement studies, and affect theory

3 Feminism as a method

4 Affect and micro-processes of mobilization

5 Safer spaces: Transforming affect into action

6 Emotions, agency, and structure

7 Conclusion: The potential of eventful affect against the conservative backlash