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The Advocacy of Feelings: Emotions in EU-Based Civil Society Organizations' Strategies
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Abstract European Union (EU)-based Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are usually pictured as well-established professionalized actors basing their advocacy strategies on the provision of expertise. Does the focus on expertise imply the removal of emotions and feelings from political communication? Following... view more
European Union (EU)-based Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are usually pictured as well-established professionalized actors basing their advocacy strategies on the provision of expertise. Does the focus on expertise imply the removal of emotions and feelings from political communication? Following the emotion turn in social movement and collective action studies, this article investigates how and why EU-based CSOs use emotions in their advocacy strategies. The article shows first how CSOs use rhetorical appeals to emotions and rhetorical appeals to reason in their communication. Secondly, the focus is directed to emotion-inspired advocacy strategies, namely blaming and shaming, fear-mongering and boosting. The choice of rhetorical appeals and strategies is mainly explained by three different inter-related factors: the logics of influence, the logics of membership and media logics. Empirical data is drawn from a content analysis of press releases and policy documents of environmental (climate change) and human rights (refugee crisis) CSOs active at the EU level and from semi-structured interviews with key CSO representatives.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
European Union; civil society organizations; emotions; feelings; interest groups
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 103-114
Journal
Politics and Governance, 6 (2018) 4
Issue topic
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying Emotions within Politics and International Relations
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed