Recent years have been marked by large-scale social social’s movement (France, Ukraine, Belarus, Algeria, Chile, Hong Kong, Colombia, the United States, Lebanon, etc.). Although these movements refer ...to specific situations and political issues, there are shared experiences and concordant narratives between them. These movements are also unique in that they claim to go beyond the usual methods of intervention in the political field. Instead of traditional union or political practices, they prefer more direct modes of intervention (occupation, blocking, fist-fighting, riots, etc.), without spokespersons, without hierarchy, organized in a flexible and "horizontal" way thanks to digital devices, and without any openness to possible negotiations or compromises with the authorities. In short, these movements seem to prefigure a crisis of democratic habits, in particular of the politics of composition that makes dialogue the essential principle of conflict resolution. This paper proposes to reflect on the dynamics of these social upheavals by paying particular attention to the sensitive experience that the actors have of them. The power of attraction of the overflowing of the usual political scenes would translate a clashing passion for the world whose more general political meaning should be questioned.
•Traffic climate affect safety driving.•Psychological factors play mediating roles.
In the research field of safe driving behavior, the emergence of prosocial driving research complements the more ...traditional dangerous driving research. In recent years, studies on the relationship between the urban traffic climate and prosocial driving have even been taken as a new direction for further improving urban traffic safety based on the construction of traffic safety facilities and the development of traffic safety regulations. The mechanism by which urban traffic climate affects prosocial driving is explored in this study. From a dual research perspective, i.e., a variable-centered and person-centered perspective, a theoretical model of prosocial driving is constructed based on the following three levels: environmental, psychological and behavioral. According to the results, First, rational, affective and moral factors at the individual psychological level play mediating roles between urban traffic climate at the environmental level and prosocial driving behavior at the behavioral level. As indicated by the results of a mediating pathway analysis, rational, affective and moral factors are intricately linked by five complex mediating paths at the psychological level. Second, there is a differentiated environmental-psychological activation mechanism between individuals’ prosocial driving and aggressive driving. Third, urban traffic climate consists of a variety of typical safety climate types, and individuals have diverse psychological tendencies regarding safe driving in traffic climates of varying safety levels. The study concludes with a systematic discussion of its theoretical contributions and practical value.
Deliberation is a complex interpersonal process that involves different forms of communication. While earlier versions of deliberative theory had overly rationalistic and proceduralist views of ...linguistic exchange, it is now understood that deliberation involves a full range of speech cultures, which include humour, storytelling, metaphors, testimonies and others, as well as the full range of emotions including fear, anger, compassion and sympathy. This article extends these developments in deliberative scholarship by placing the role of the body as central to the practice of public deliberation. The agents of real-world deliberations are not pure consciousness but embodied beings whose corporeality carries the palimpsest of marks of their class, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation, amongst others. Bodily self-presentation informs how affect, identification and political representation are established even before words are spoken. The goal of this article is to reflect on the effect of bodily identification and representation on the process of deliberation. Drawing on populism literature, particularly the socio-cultural approach, I explore four types of bodily representation: popular, technocratic, authoritarian and populist, and the affects they might provoke in other participants in deliberations, both negative and positive. Through this article, I hope to demonstrate how the vocabulary of populism research can equip deliberative democrats to identify, confront and negotiate the politics of bodily representation.
The transmission of religious knowledge in Islam is inseparable from the inculcation of al-īmān (faith). If knowledge itself is conceptual, faith requires affects. The question then becomes: how is ...religious education organized so that it elicits the affects that animates faith among young apprentices, which in turn becomes a stimulant for learning. To grasp the passionate element in religious training, we will take the example of the study of the Qur’an in Morocco, and more specifically, a method of collective recitation called taḥzzabt, which is considered by learners an effective technique for consolidating memorization of the Qur’an. Practitioners of taḥzzabt speak in terms of joyful affects such as al-ḥamās (enthusiasm) and al-nashwa (rapture). The passionate impulse in the taḥzzabt leads often to such vocal exuberance that it becomes difficult to discern the Qur’anic text. It is for this reason that many ulemas criticize such zeal and even wish to ban this particular form of Qur’anic recitation to no avail, as these same ulemas admit. This shows the power of this passion subtext in animating the taḥzzabt and prolonging the practice of Qur’anic memorization in this particular vocal form.
Despite the acknowledged benefits of digital storytelling in fostering language development, investigations into its cognitive and affective dimensions in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) ...education, especially concerning high and low achievers, have been scarce. This study, therefore, aimed to scrutinize the effects of multimodal digital storytelling presentations on storytelling outcomes and emotional responses of high and low achievers within an EFL context.
The study enlisted 52 sophomore students from a private university in central Taiwan. Over a 14-week research period, participants were tasked with creating two digital storytelling presentations: the first employing PowerPoint and the second utilizing Book Creator. Data collection encompassed two questionnaires gauging positive/negative affective states and enjoyment in digital storytelling, along with reflective journals.
The results underscored the superiority of Book Creator over PowerPoint in enhancing digital storytelling presentation quality. High-achieving students reported heightened positive affective experiences and a greater sense of enjoyment compared to their low-achieving peers. However, both groups exhibited comparable levels of negative affect, suggesting the existence of anxiety despite the presence of positive emotions during the learning process.
This study contributes by emphasizing the equitable significance of cognitive and affective facets within technological multimodality, thereby illuminating the multifaceted essence of EFL learning.
•There is a shift from a perspective biased towards visual methods to a broader understanding of the multisensory phenomenon known as "sensescape". Yet, the interplay among senses remains ...underexplored.•There is a lack of a universally agreed-upon definition for certain affects which are often characterized by their longer durations, ambiguity, and irreducibility.•Some functional studies explore attitudes to enhance cycling rates, while identity research emphasizes local context. Identities of cyclists in our sample face marginalization, stigma, disadvantage, and invisibility.•Retrospective surveys and interviews are dominant, but growing interest in mobile methods enhances real-time and context-specific data collection.•The positive values of cycling experiences have been largely ignored in our sample of studies, suggesting that the dominant narrative is still guided by the assumption that mobility is a disutility.
When evaluating cycling subjective experiences (CSE), mobility researchers have questioned the depictions of cycling as an efficient, fast, and solitary mobility mode. By reframing cycling in terms of its emotional impact on the cyclist, research to date has explored dimensions such as fun, relaxation, and sociability of cycling experiences. Yet, these insights have not been integrated into a holistic understanding of CSE. Addressing this gap, this paper asks: what is the CSE exactly and how do we measure it? We selected and analysed in-depth 50 articles with the aim of unpacking the innate characteristics of CSE. The paper makes a contribution to the research on CSE by presenting a novel framework that clarifies the relationships within existing literature, and identifies measurement methods aligned with this framework. The three interrelated core aspects of CSE are 1) sensory interpretation, 2) affective states, and 3) cognitive construction. Additionally, the three identified methods are 1) retrospective, 2) interceptive, and 3) mobile methods. Notably, retrospective surveys and interviews emerged as the dominant methods employed in the field. However, there has been a growing interest in mobile methods, which enable the collection of real-time and context-specific data, thereby enhancing the generalizability of research findings. Through our analysis we have found that the positive values of cycling experiences have been largely ignored in our sample of studies, revealing a bias of researchers to focus on mobility as a disutility. Based on our findings, we urge planners and scholars to rethink their implicit efforts to mitigate the negative effects of cycling experiences and look for opportunities to optimize for positive cycling experiences.
"This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a ...distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal, the authors approach ""the material"" through four themes - glass, feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In examining these four types of materialities and object groups, which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations, this book charts how each underwent significant changes during this period."
Despite a political context marked by affective explicitness and an ongoing affective turn in social sciences, representation theory rarely takes affects and emotions into account. In this article, I ...respond to this gap by focusing on indignation, as a key affect of the crisis of representation. Building on recent constructivist theories of representation and affect theory, I unpack three affective dynamics of indignation which play a constitutive role in representation: affective imitation, affective transformation and the creation of affective publics. I conclude by raising normative questions on the role of indignation, and affect at large, in theories and practices of representation.
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