Thinking with Bevereley Skeggs - Stockholms universitet

September is also related to feelings, like ‘awakening’ fromsome hibernation, that, in some ways, seemed to affect all thesehistoric events (Velasquez 2007b).In order to organize the celebrations and the commemorationsrelated to all these events in September, as well as to advanceother ways of becoming organized these members of theChilean diaspora relate to different types of networks based onfriendship, trustworthiness and other means of confidentiality.In another way, they are also talking about how these emotionscan work to make class and gender distinctions when theytry to relate to, for example being a Chilean in Spain. Facingthese distinctions is something that also relates to bothChileans and other social groups striving for a commonalityagainst discrimination and racism. Building this commonalityhad required some kind of transversal politics and politicsof emotion to construct successful structures within theChilean diaspora. In that way emotions may be crucial to howperforming different events help both to mainstream towardsreproducing hegemonic gender and class formations in Chileor Spain and construct trans-diasporal alliances against racismand beyond.Politics of emotion for a sustainabledevelopmentThe micro-level of local politics in a multicultural suburband the global reach of diaspora organisations established inone of the former European colonial powers are two possiblefields where emotions can be observed as determinant forsocial organisation. A third field can be related to the debateon sustainable development. During the last few years I havebeen actively involved in exploring how feminist alliances andgender mainstreaming relate to each other in Latin Americawhere over 250 cities have adopted models of participatorydemocracy and participatory planning (Cabanes 2004).100