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Outcats spirit
António Pedro Dores
http://iscte.pt/~apad
ESA - Lisboa, Septembre 2009
Fear emotion
• Fear is known as a freezing emotion
• Jack Barbalet stress:
a) fear can be a startle emotion
b) fear is not only felt by low classes
Greek uprising Dec 2008
• When police kill someone it meant to freeze “criminals” and/or “poor people”
• Institutions claim often they cannot punish police killing because “it is their work to use force” – to produce social fear
• Social prestige of greek police is bad
• Political support to police is not published
Outcast
• “No fear”/”ignition effect” turn frigth into startle.
Some times the fear produced by police must be reinforced by judicial or political decisons condemning popular reations (as much as vice-versa)
• Those who learn (as social practice) to oppose police (and political and judicial) decisons concerning violence feel and live as outcast
Outcast spirit
• Outcast spirit means to deal with fear in a special manner – developing the emotion into action, instead of freezing:
• Durkheim “criminal” social creativity
• Reversing submission consequences of fear described by Barbalet – changing institutions (social movements)
The end
Emotions consequences
• Fear of the consequences of social secret revelation (inmigration and justice study).
Is it fear or is it (criminal) rational calculus?
• Sarkozy Paris riots, November 2005.
Was it social fear (of internal terrorism) or was it political calculus?
Emotions sequences
• Fear: frighten or startle? Outcast or upperclass?
• Greek uprising December 2008 case
1. frighten the police and the governament
2. startle youth and outcast politicians and population
Social movement
• Looking for social transformations or looking for revival of labor movements?
• Should it need a rational, explicit and sucessful orientation or
it is enough to join people feeling solidarity, regardless the long term consequences?
Social individuals
• Individual social movements (mood changes and social reception)
and
social emotions (difusion and tuning)
• Irreversability of human lives and reversability of social changes
Social instability
• Natural individual and social instability
• The outcast function – the resistence
• The outcast culture – the history
• The outcast path – the path for change
• The subversion of fear: when it startle who is supposed to be frighten and frighten who is supposed to be startle
The globalization of the subversion of fear
• Financial crisis and social consequences (the fear of the powerful)
• Frighten of powerful classes and the startle of outcast
• The experience of the emergence of the “society” (the positive feeling of fear, the oportunity to develop social individualism) depends on the situation of social structure
The end