Bodies in Action: Corporeal Enactments of Political Activism in the Czech Climate Movement
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F22%3A10456598" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/22:10456598 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vWttoirPv2" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vWttoirPv2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SOC2022-29549" target="_blank" >10.5817/SOC2022-29549</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bodies in Action: Corporeal Enactments of Political Activism in the Czech Climate Movement
Original language description
In recent years we have seen the rise of climate activism in Czech Republic. In contrast with transactional activism based predominantly on small, advocacy and professionalized NGOs which use lobbying as their main repertoire of action supported by expert knowledge, this activism takes shape as embodied practices of mass civil disobedience such as occupying fossil fuel infrastructures during climate camps. The urgency of the climate crisis has brought the body and emotions back into politics. Based on qualitative, primarily ethnographic research of Czech climate activism, the article examines the role of the body in these new tactics. Drawing on conceptions of emotion and affect in social movements, it shows the shifts in the modes of activism and it addresses the questions of how bodies in action change the understanding of activism and politics, and help to create new forms of solidarity. Specifically, the article develops the concept of affinity as a way of organizing contemporary climate activism that can help explain the tension that activists feel between what is and what could be.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-15012S" target="_blank" >GA20-15012S: Anarchism in the context of Czech Political Culture: Presumptions, Parallels, Influences</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociální studia
ISSN
1214-813X
e-ISSN
1803-6104
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
13-28
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141261288