Abstract

POMA, Alice  and  GRAVANTE, Tommaso. "We Will never Be the Same Women as before". Emotions and Collective Empowerment in Social Movements: The Mujer Nueva Collective (Oaxaca, Mexico). Desafíos [online]. 2019, vol.31, n.2, pp.231-265. ISSN 0124-4035.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.7308.

In social movement studies, empowerment is regarded as one of the biographic consequences of activism and is related to social change. Although psychological studies show that emotions as a result of participating in collective actions have an essential role in the empowerment process, there is still little research analyzing the role of emotions in this dynamic process. With the study of emotions and protest as a starting point, and by incorporating the results of research conducted by psychologists who analyze social change, we seek to demonstrate the role of various emotions during the empowerment process that the members of the Mujer Nueva Collective have experienced. This collective comprises women who decided to self-organize after having participated actively in the 2006 insurgency in Oaxaca. In this respect, we will first analyze the change the members of this collective experienced. Second, we will present the emotions generated by this collective action that have influenced said change. Finally, we will explain the emotions generated by such empowerment. The results of this research aim to contribute to the multi-disciplinary literature that studies empowerment as a biographic consequence of protest and activism.

Keywords : Emotions and protest; collective empowerment; social movements; biographic consequences; Mexico.

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