The Affective Politics of Political Movements: Structures of Feeling, Political Resonance Machines, and Hotspots

通过使用Amin and Thrift（2013）的"情感政治"概念透镜，我的研究旨在解释--至少部分解释--表达对"西方""现状"不满的新政治运动的出现和相对流行。我最初的论点是，如果不了解这些运动的情感维度，那么对它们兴起的任何解释都是不完整的。人们支持这些运动背后的复杂和多方面的原因将通过使用i）Sverigedemokraterna在2018年瑞典大选前的竞选活动和ii）在2020年英国大选前对Jeremy Corbyn的支持作为我的案例研究来探索。通过参与“情感转向”，本研究响应了政治地理学家的呼吁，探索“情感”的概念，因为它使我们能够欣赏政治的情感本质。在更广泛的"情感政治学"的透镜中，我将使用"情感结构"（威廉姆斯，1997）、"政治共鸣机器"（康诺利，2005，2011）和"情感氛围"（安德森，2009，2014）的概念来构建我的讨论。我将提出，"热点"--构成政治运动一部分的事件，如集会和公共会议--是推动政治运动背后动力的组成部分--而在热点产生的情感氛围通过口口相传、全国性媒体和社交媒体，在最初的生产地点之外产生反响。

By employing Amin and Thrift's (2013) conceptual lens of 'affective politics', my research aims to explain - at least in part - the emergence and relativepopularity of new political movements that express dissatisfaction with the 'status quo' in the 'West'. My initial contention is that any explanation as tothe rise of these movements would be incomplete without an appreciation of their affective dimensions. The complex and multi-faceted reasons behindpeople's support for these movements will be explored by using i) Sverigedemokraterna's campaign in the run up to the 2018 Swedish Parliamentaryelections and ii) support for Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the 2020 UK election as my case studies. By engaging with the 'affective turn', thisresearch responds to calls by political geographers to explore the concept of 'affect' as it enables us to appreciate the affective nature of politics. Withinthe broader lens of 'affective politics', I will use the concepts of 'structures of feeling' (Williams, 1997), 'political resonance machines' (Connolly, 2005,2011), and 'affective atmospheres' (Anderson, 2009, 2014) to frame my discussion. I will propose that 'hotspots' - events that form part of politicalmovements, such as rallies and public meetings - are integral to fuelling momentum behind political movements - and that affective atmospheresproduced at hotspots reverberate beyond their initial sites of production, through word of mouth, the national press, and social media.