A Spinozist approach to affective patterns in revolutionary springs
<p>This thesis is about revolutionary springs, defined as fast transnational diffusion of revolutionary uprisings in the absence of any financial or military collaboration. Due to their speed, their international nature, and their spontaneity, I argue that these phenomena cannot be satisfactor...
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| description | <p>This thesis is about revolutionary springs, defined as fast transnational diffusion of revolutionary uprisings in the absence of any financial or military collaboration. Due to their speed, their international nature, and their spontaneity, I argue that these phenomena cannot be satisfactorily explained by material or ideological factors alone, hence the need for original analytical tools. To analyse the structures of affects, I offer to look at three affective patterns, namely repressive fear, revolutionary fraternity, and revolutionary martyrdom. The first part of this thesis draws from Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy to understand how collective affects emerge and circulate transnationally within and across multitudes, and briefly distinguishes this perspective from the one developed by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. The second part describes how affective patterns interplay in revolutionary dynamics in two empirical cases, namely the Springtime of the Peoples and the Arab Spring. It first connects Spinoza’s ontological foundations with methodology by presenting the textual, visual, and sound materials and respective methods that are handled to investigate affective patterns in revolutionary times. Then, I examine these affective patterns at the national level during the Springtime of the Peoples and the Arab Spring to show how they contribute to the emergence of the revolutionary multitude. The last two chapters offer an international theory of affective patterns in revolutionary springs by showing how a transnational multitude may emerge and be set in motion through affective patterns. This part also uses affective patterns to investigate negative cases, that is, countries that could have joined the revolutionary movement and did not. This work has implications for the understanding of both revolutions, especially but not exclusively revolutionary springs, and transnational affective circulations.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0a409cf9-4ae9-4264-89f3-c427a01f61a52024-12-01T11:17:57ZA Spinozist approach to affective patterns in revolutionary springsThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:0a409cf9-4ae9-4264-89f3-c427a01f61a5International Relations TheoryAffect OntologyPolitical theoryRevolution TheoryEnglishORA42020Duhé, AKeene, E<p>This thesis is about revolutionary springs, defined as fast transnational diffusion of revolutionary uprisings in the absence of any financial or military collaboration. Due to their speed, their international nature, and their spontaneity, I argue that these phenomena cannot be satisfactorily explained by material or ideological factors alone, hence the need for original analytical tools. To analyse the structures of affects, I offer to look at three affective patterns, namely repressive fear, revolutionary fraternity, and revolutionary martyrdom. The first part of this thesis draws from Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy to understand how collective affects emerge and circulate transnationally within and across multitudes, and briefly distinguishes this perspective from the one developed by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. The second part describes how affective patterns interplay in revolutionary dynamics in two empirical cases, namely the Springtime of the Peoples and the Arab Spring. It first connects Spinoza’s ontological foundations with methodology by presenting the textual, visual, and sound materials and respective methods that are handled to investigate affective patterns in revolutionary times. Then, I examine these affective patterns at the national level during the Springtime of the Peoples and the Arab Spring to show how they contribute to the emergence of the revolutionary multitude. The last two chapters offer an international theory of affective patterns in revolutionary springs by showing how a transnational multitude may emerge and be set in motion through affective patterns. This part also uses affective patterns to investigate negative cases, that is, countries that could have joined the revolutionary movement and did not. This work has implications for the understanding of both revolutions, especially but not exclusively revolutionary springs, and transnational affective circulations.</p> |
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| title | A Spinozist approach to affective patterns in revolutionary springs |
| title_full | A Spinozist approach to affective patterns in revolutionary springs |
| title_fullStr | A Spinozist approach to affective patterns in revolutionary springs |
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