Description
This article examines the role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and
Egypt in the context of collective level emotions in mobilizations. Emotions are
understood as a catalyst whose mechanism of action is performed through
repertories. This article seeks to answer how emotions, having a triggering
role, are performed through repertoires while accelerating mobilization
against authoritarian orders, creating the intersection of individual and
collective level emotions in public spheres of Tunisia and Egypt, and thus
affecting the transnational diffusion of emotions. The significant reason to
address emotions is to explain what stimulated the Arab Spring and how it
spread over the region starting from Tunisia and Egypt. This article
synthesizes two literatures: International Relations (IR) and social movements
studies in light of emotions and components of repertoires which are as
follows: collective action, collective identity, symbolic politics, network society and information politics.
