Moving feelings, intimate moods and migrant protest in Cardiff

Payson, Alida ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7957-5303 2015. Moving feelings, intimate moods and migrant protest in Cardiff. JOMEC Journal 7 , -. 10.18573/j.2015.10002

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Abstract

In a public mood of marked hostility around asylum, emotion overflows protest media produced as part of recent migrant mobilisations. Protest media seeks to touch audiences, to stir public feeling for migrants, to build a sense of collectivity, and to move the collective to action, but the emotional modes used also work sideways to produce uneasy and unpredictable affects. This article examines the ‘cultural politics of emotion’(Ahmed 2004) in three pieces of media produced as part of recent refugee protests in Cardiff, Wales: a book of asylum-seeking women’s testimonies, a series of antideportation blog posts and videos, and a ‘Refugee House’ museum installation. Feelings declared outright, such as love, rage and despair, work to move publics outright, but also relegate participants into confined genres of action and subjectivity. Uneasy effects generated through the media’s aesthetics and materiality stir up other, more ambivalent and mobile emotional modes. This article explores the qualities of these uneasy affects, and how they might alter moods around asylum for political effect.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 November 2017
Date of Acceptance:	29 May 2015
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 15:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/106458

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