REITERACIONES RELACIONALES Y ACTIVACIONES EMOCIONALES: HACIA UNA RADICALIZACIÓN DE LA PROCESUALIDAD DE LAS IDENTIDADES COLECTIVAS.

Collective identity has been conceptualized by social movement theories mainly as a definition. In this text, based in feminist theories, I argue that the conceptualization of collective identity as a definition forgets other fundamental dimensions -mainly relations and emotions- and, moreover, limits its processual character. This argument is based on the study of contemporary feminist mobilizations in Spain through a qualitative fieldwork (quasi-biographical interviews, focus groups, participant observations and the analysis of written and graphic materials). The analysis allows the widening of dimensions of collective identities - from definitions to relations and emotions- as well as the radicalization of their processuality by placing the notions of iteration and activation at the heart of the analysis. I offer a theoretical-analytical proposal that understands that collective identities are but partial materializations, always unfinished processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]