This post is by Katja May, PhD candidate at the University of Kent. Emotional Politics – The Role of Affect in Social Movements and Organizing took place on 31 May 2018 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. The conference aimed to bring together academics, activists, policy-makers and practitioners to share current concerns and developments in the research and practice surrounding emotion, organizing and social movements. It was co-hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Culture Research Cluster in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at Kent and kindly sponsored by the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies , the School of English and the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing . The organizers Katja May and Angela Matthews , are both PhD students at Kent, and their joint interest in affect, emotion and social transformation was the driving force behind this conference. Veteran activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis (2016) claims that in order...
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