Abstract
This text reviews the theory of recognition and focuses on the study of the role of emotions in collective
action and social movements. It shows how emotion becomes feeling and creates a need to be
met, leading to action. Anger, for example, as emotion, moves on to the feeling of indignation, and it
is expressed in many forms, including the pursuit of justice and recognition. This point lands and deepens
the study with the experience of the student movement in Mexico #YoSoy132 in 2012. The research
is based on interviews with members of the movement. The presence and importance of
feelings in collective action and social movements through the proposed case study is finally shown.