Background reading might be:

Laverack, G. (2013) Health activism: The way forward to improve health in difficult times. Global Health Promotion. 20 (2): 49-52.

Laverack, G (2013) Health Activism: foundations and strategies. London. Sage Publications.

Laverack, G (2013) Individualism or activism for health in hard times. Journal of Public Health. Vol 21 (4): 385-386.

Laverack G (2013) Activism and health in hard times. International Journal of Public Health. Vol 58 (4): 489-490.

You could try 

Corinne Squire, 2013. Three letter lives: Living with HIV in the era of treatment possibility. London: Palgrave (Academic and NGO discounts available, see her UEL page):

Passionate Politics - EDITED BY JEFF GOODWIN, JAMES M. JASPER, AND FRANCESCA POLLETTA

and for a broader view of 'Why love matters for politics' try Martha Nussbaum 'Political Emotions'

I'm looking at how affect influences the actions and orientations of local development NGO workers and social activists in Bangladesh - not so much in intimate personal relationships, but work-related, family and classed relationships. I'd be interested to hear more about you research! Best of luck.

Thank you, Glenn and Phoebe for your answers. Though from different areas, I think your contributions are very helpful.

Phoebe: I'm doing a keynote at the Queering Partnering later this month, and I want to think about the political role of emotions and human connections in writing the history of Portugal's only polyamory-related activist group (PolyPortugal).

this article may be useful

Many thanks, Jose!

I can recommend the introduction and especially James Jaspers article in our book "Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research". He is the one for emotions/movements anyway. Other chapters focus less on emotions, but much on settings of relationships in movements, like transnational encounters and the like.

This is the book:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265593904_Conceptualizing_Culture_in_Social_Movement_Research

Book Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

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Dear all

Thanks to your inputs, I've been able to gather these references, beyond / along with those you've sent along.

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2. ed). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.

Askins, K. (2009). “That”s just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism. Emotion, Space and Society, 2(1), 4–13. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2009.03.005

Baumgarten, B. (2014). Conceptualizing culture in social movement research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Demertzis, N. (Ed.). (2013). Emotions in Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137025661

Goodwin, J., & Jasper, J. M. (Eds.). (2004). Rethinking social movements: structure, meaning, and emotion. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Goodwin, J., Jasper, J. M., & Polletta, F. (Eds.). (2001). Passionate politics: emotions and social movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gould, D. B. (2009). Moving politics: emotion and ACT UP’s fight against AIDS. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Hoggett, P., & Thompson, S. (2012). Politics and the emotions: The affective turn in contemporary political studies. New York: Continuum. Retrieved from http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=894550

Langle de Paz, T. (2016). A Golden Lever for Politics: Feminist Emotion and Women’s Agency. Hypatia, 31(1), 187–203. http://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12218

Morris, A. (2000). Reflections on Social Movement Theory: Criticisms and Proposals. Contemporary Sociology, 29(3), 445–454. http://doi.org/10.2307/2653931

Neuman, W. R. (Ed.). (2007). The affect effect: dynamics of emotion in political thinking and behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Nussbaum, M. C. (2013). Political emotions: why love matters for justice. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Petray, T. L. (2012). A walk in the park: political emotions and ethnographic vacillation in activist research. Qualitative Research, 12(5), 554–564. http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794112446048

Snow, D. A., Soule, S. A., & Kriesi, H. (Eds.). (2004). The Blackwell companion to social movements. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Stephens, E. (2015). Bad Feelings: An Affective Genealogy of Feminism. Australian Feminist Studies, 30(85), 273–282. http://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2015.1113907

Dear @Phoebe 

As you expressed interest in my work, here's the end result.

Presentation The political is personal – The importance of affective narr...