The Winter of Our Discontent: Emotions and Contentious Politics in Ukraine during Euromaidan
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2015
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Gomza, Ivan
Koval, Nadiia
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Abstract
Drawing upon 60 semi-structured interviews, this study adopts an emotion-centered approach
to studying the non-violent phase of Euromaidan protests in Ukraine. We find that, first, the
overlapping and mutual amplifying of two successive moral shocks was the primary mechanism
of mobilization. The mobilizing success of the moral shocks is interpreted through introducing
the notion of emotional path dependence. Second, the nature of moral shock is explained
as a combination of emotional and cognitive components. Third, we find that emotional
components of collective identity construction created moral barriers between a brotherhood
of virtuous protesters and profoundly immoral antagonists, which, combined with the perceived
universality of claims, rendered the bystanders’ position unacceptable.
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social movements, moral shock, Euromaidan, mobilization, collective identity, emotions, article
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Gomza I. The Winter of Our Discontent: Emotions and Contentious Politics in Ukraine during Euromaidan / Ivan Gomza, Nadiia Koval // Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal. - 2015. - № 1. - P. 39-62.