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1. † The authors would like to thank all participants who agreed to take part in the study. They also thank Professor Eline Severs and Professor Kris Deschouwer for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this draft, and the three reviewers for their very thorough and constructive comments. This research was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek–Vlaanderen (FWO), grant number G062917N (2017-2021), and the FNRS-FWO Excellence of Science project RepResent, grant number G0F0218N. The authors thank all colleagues from the WP3 team of project EOS-RepResent for their valuable help and contributions in the organization of the focus group discussions.
Abstract
In social movement research, indignation features prominently as an affect that triggers protest and mobilization. Yet, scholarly accounts rarely unpack the precise ways in which indignation performs these roles, and how it transforms individuals who join mobilization. This article conceptualizes indignation as a moment of affective transformation, based on affect-theoretical insights and drawing on the empirical analysis of the Belgian yellow vest movement (BYV). Building on focus groups, participant observations, and interviews, we unpack the complex affectivity of indignation and the dynamics that underlie indignation in the context of protest and mobilization. We find that indignation enables three affective transformations: (1) it acts as a tipping point that follows from individual feelings of resentment; (2) it is a moment of affective resonance that binds individuals in affective communities, (3) it acts as affective bifurcation from the disempowered state of fear and towards the reclaiming of political power.
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Sociology and Political Science
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