Emmy Eklundh
Title of thesis
Indignation as dissent? The emotional components of protest and legitimacy
Summary of research
My research analyses how the protests movements in Spain and Greece in 2011 (the indignants) were driven by emotions rather than unified claims, and how this affects our perception of legitimacy. Historically, protests movements have been associated with specific claims, parties, or unions, something which is not true for the Indignants. The movement consists of a variety of claims, and I want to investigate if their only common denominator is a feeling of indignation. If this is true, this has vast implications for how we perceive political legitimacy, something which this project analyses further using the theories of Ernesto Laclau and Cornelius Castoriadis.
Supervisors
Dr. Peter Lawler and Dr. Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet
Planned submission date
September 2014
Research interest
Dissent, social movements, post-structuralist theory, radical democracy, legitimacy
Conferences and invited presentations:
Privatization and deregulation of network industries in Germany – The role of the European Union, Paper presented at “Privatizationand Liberalization of Network Industries in Eastern and WesternEurope”, (with Welf Werner), Stockholm School of Economics,June 16‐17 2011.
Democratic reductionism: Laclau, Mouffe and foundationalism. Paper presented at “Workshops in Political Theory”, ManchesterMetropolitan University, September 1‐3, 2010.
Teaching experience
Teaching Assistant in International Economics and U.S. Modern Economic History, 2010-2011, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Teaching Assistant in Latin, 2008, Lund University, Sweden
Additional information
Co-convenor of the Post-structuralism Reading Group
Email address
emmy.eklundh@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk