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Abstract

This review focuses on James Jaspers' latest book The Emotion of Protest published in 2018 and still untranslated into Spanish. The aim of this paper is to review the contributions of the work to the field of study of emotions, focusing on the author’s arguments about the explanatory potential of emotions in protest as well as the proposed emotional typology for use in empirical research. For this purpose, a critical reading of the text will be proposed, placing its main conceptual and methodological contributions, emphasizing the dialogues that Jaspers establishes with theories of social action, studies dedicated to social movements and the specific field of emotions.