Emotions in Collective Action. Movements against Wind Farms and Livestock Buildings in Brittany (France)
Emotional approaches in social sciences are very diverse, but still few integrate emotions to explain the social components of action. This article intends to question the dynamics of collective action by integrating the emotional aspect of social life into a relational perspective. Based on the work of Pierre Livet (2001) and Louis Quéré (2012), emotion is considered to be what binds people to a situation. This relationship is examined in the «emotional work», that is to say the revision of our expectations in an uncertain situation that actors operate to engage in action. The purpose of this article is to show the relationship between the characteristics of emotions felt and the forms of collective mobilizations. This article will be based on the analysis of land-use conflicts around nine extension projects of livestock buildings and wind farms. The dynamics of the conflict will be restored in time across the different emotional situations that the protagonists go through.