Emotional dynamics and the possibility for resistance and change — with Erika Summers-Effler

Join the Urban Futures Studio on December 16th for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with Erika Summers-Effler, associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She is working on the nexus of emotions, culture, social movements and religion combining the disciplines of micro-sociology and cognitive brain science. Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive turnover and emotional burnout? Together with Erika, in this session, we will explore how emotional dynamics between people and within the self can explain social inertia as well as the possibility for resistance and change. Register here: https://forms.uu.nl/universiteitutrecht-geo/friends-of-the-future-16-de…

About Erika Summers-Effler

Erika Summers-Effler is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She is working on the nexus of emotions, culture, social movements and religion combining the disciplines of micro-sociology and cognitive brain science.  Erika's work has questioned standard ethnographic research methodologies and led her to develop a call to more effectively attend to and represent emotion in ethnography. She is the author of the book 'Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes: Emotional Rhythms in Social Movements Groups' and has contributed to several handbooks around the sociology of emotions and social movements. 

About 'Friends of the Future'

The Friends of the Future seminars are the Urban Futures Studio’s take on public seminars: warm, interactive, and focused on hope. Each month, we invite an academic, activist, artist, or practitioner to chat with us on the sofa in front of a circle of colleagues and guests. All are welcome.