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Etymologically, emotion and movements (in the sense of protest) are related. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, emotion, meaning “a physical moving, stirring, agitation,” comes from the Old French emouvoir, meaning “stir up,” and from the Latin emovere, meaning “move out, remove, agitate,” from ex- meaning “out” and movere meaning “to move.” Movement comes from the post-classical Latin movementum, meaning “motion,” and earlier, movimentum, meaning “emotion,” “rebellion,” or “uprising.” The verb “to move”—which means “to affect with emotion” and “to prompt or impel toward some action”—links emotion and movements and suggests a frequent accompaniment. We might expect, then, that studies of social movements and other forms of protest politics would foreground the role of emotion in mobilization. History shows, however, that scholars of protest have been and continue to be ambivalent about emotion. Keywords: collective behavior; social psychology; crowds; movements |
