Sustainable Activism: Managing hope and despair in social movements

Paul Hoggett and Rosemary Randall, Transformation, Open Democracy (Dec. 12, 2016)

Hoggett and Randall explore the importance of managing emotions in activism. They draw from their research conducting interviews with activists in the United Kingdom. From their research, they discovered emotional challenges activists face, such as binary thinking and the potential for despair. However, they also found that the newer generation of activists were developing a more emotionally-intelligent culture around their work.