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June 12, 2026Social and Environmental Accountability JournalOpen Access

Entangled Commitments: The Challenges of Ethnographic Immersion in Social Movements as a Critical Perspectives Academic

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SOSusan O'Leary

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Overview

Examines affective tensions in activist scholarship within social movements, complicating the relationship between critique and solidarity.

Key Points

  • This paper investigates the tensions that arise for critical scholars involved in social movements focused on care and love.
  • Utilized a reflexive ethnographic approach in a climate justice movement involvement.
  • Analyzed emotional and ethical labor in movement dynamics using Ahmed’s theories on complaint and emotional atmospheres.
  • Critique within movements prioritizing emotional cohesion often leads to relational and ethical tensions.
  • Desire for harmony can limit reflexivity, impacting the critical scholar's role and presence.
  • Withdrawal can be framed as a form of responsible disengagement rather than a methodological failure.

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Susan O'Leary (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2ba2f68101cf8926f01c1fhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0969160x.2026.2655115
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