Search results for "Dehumanization"
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Hope and equilibrium in the dystopian world of The Hunger Games
2021
This paper provides evidence of the fruitfulness of combining analytical categories from Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis for the analysis of complex literary characterizations. It does so through a detailed study of the “tributes”, i.e. the randomly selected children who have to fight to death in a nationally televised show, in The Hunger Games. The study proves the effectiveness of such categories to provide an analytically accurate picture of the dystopian world depicted in the novel, which is revealed to include a paradoxical element of hope. The type of dehumanization that characterizes the dystopian society of Panem is portrayed through an internally consistent se…
L'estudi de la deshumanització i la infrahumanització en psicologia
2010
L'estudi psicosocial sobre la conducta antisocial i la crueltat dels éssers humans reconeix l'existència d'una representació deshumanitzadora de l'altre. El propòsit d'aquest article és presentar els avanços empírics en l'estudi de la infrahumanització, com a atribució diferencial de sentiments en l'endogrup i en l'exogrup. Atès que els sentiments 'per exemple, l'amor, l'esperança, el menyspreu, el ressentiment' es consideren emocions exclusivament humanes, les persones no sols atribueixen més sentiments a l'endogrup que no als exogrups, sinó que neguen a aquests últims la capacitat de vivenciar-ne. Ara oferim, en primer lloc, una descripció de les distintes perspectives que s'han utilitzat…
Confin(at)i Mediterranei e Afroamericani. Una performance geografica sulla disumanizzazione
2020
Studiare la questione mediterranea soltanto dentro le aule universitarie non ci permette di restituire una realtà sfaccettata che viene proposta all’opinione pubblica con un’unica parola d’ordine: invasione. La performance E l’Europa disumanizzò se stessa mi ha permesso di presentare la storia di schiavi e fuggitivi per un’audience più vasta. Incentrata sul libro di Toni Morrison, Beloved, rimbalza tra gli effetti delle storie dell’Atlantico Nero e quelli dell’odierno Mediterraneo. Il saggio si propone di tracciare alcune direzioni che possano aiutare a indagare le diverse linee di confine che segnano la rugosità della modernità del nostro globo. Per fare questo, si prova a rispondere a tre…
Gendering political conflict: the racialized and dehumanized use of gender on Facebook
2021
Although attacks against gendered others have proliferated around the world, there remains a paucity of research examining the gender-biased climate that normalizes and condones racialization and d...
How to Teach about the Holocaust? Psychological Obstacles in Historical Education in Poland and Germany
2017
Holocaust education in many countries faces severe obstacles, and the effects of such education are far from desirable. Research on German students found that education about the National Socialist period in Germany did not improve intergroup attitudes. Similarly, a study performed on Polish students in Warsaw showed that the extent of Holocaust education did not affect intergroup attitudes and led to more biased vision of the Holocaust. In both countries current Holocaust education seems to convey simplified entitative information about groups—such that all members of perpetrator group are presented as evil, and all bystanders as righteous. Based on psychological research on moral emotions…
neutering neuter – grammatical gender and the dehumanisation of women in German
2021
Grammatical gender in German has traditionally been described as a rather arbitrary system (Helbig and Buscha 1988). This is not the case in regard to terms of person reference, where natural gender assignment is the norm: Masculine and feminine grammatical gender largely correlate with the extralinguistic assignment of male and female gender. Neuter gender predominantly denotes inanimate entities (Köpcke and Zubin 1996, 2009). The use of neutral gender in reference to women nevertheless has a long history in German, usually with pejorative connotations (Köpcke and Zubin 1996, 2009). Historically, this can be illustrated in relation to nouns, pronouns and articles: 1 By neuter nouns denotin…
E l'Europa disumanizzò se stessa. Una performance
2019
It is a dialogue that interweaves the current events of migration with Toni Morrison's book: Beloved. The novel tells of a house and its inhabitants in an America where a river traces the division between freedom and slavery. Between Europe and Africa, that border zone is the Mediterranean: a sea of transit and fishing, a liquid border and an open wound. Another aspect of Beloved reflects on what the words freedom and responsibility mean. From Morrison's women to those of today, the questions here have the same gravity. Reading Toni Morrison today means once again asking what Europe is; a Europe that then with slavery, now with migration laws has had to and must dehumanise not only slaves/m…
Real Humans?: <i>Affective imaginaries of the human and its Others in the Swedish TV series Äkta människor</i>
2019
According to the Swedish science fiction TV series Akta manniskor (Real Humans, SVT and Matador film 2012-2014), humanoid robots called “hubots” are replacing the human workforce in care work and assembly line industries. Against the backdrop of current debates about immigration and citizenship in the Nordic countries, this article does a close, contextual reading of the series, exploring how the hubots influence work and family life. We are particularly interested in how hubots tie in with the cultural circulation of affect in relation to Otherness and how responses towards the “not-quite” human or dehumanized Other are negotiated in present-day Nordic cultural imaginaries. What kinds of a…
Violence and Proximity Violence: Links and Interpretative Developments
2020
This first chapter aims to deciphering the unresolved ties that harken back to patriarchy, a category used to justify all kinds of abuse and maltreatment of women, even in recent years. The more representations legitimizing the centuries-old exercise of control by men over women’s bodies are shared socially, the more they relegate women to positions of segregation. This is a practice typical of patriarchal systems, which tend to place the weakest subject in a position of permanent subordination. In the case of migrant women, in extreme cases, patriarchy even arrives at the dehumanization, objectification, and reification of their bodies.
“At the Western Palace”: The Dehumanization of Whiteness, Americanness, and Chinese-Americanness in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
2021
The dehumanization of whiteness in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976) inheres in the overarching ghosthood metaphor. While first generation Chinese American immigrants in The Woman Warrior attribute the power of transforming people into ghosts to the United States of America as a country, the questioning of a person’s humanity by calling them a “ghost” is not reserved for white people alone. Chinese American immigrants also run the risk of losing their humanity and becoming ghosts if they renounce their relatives and their heritage. The husband of the first-person narrator’s Chinese aunt, Moon Orchid, is an example of a Chinese American man, who turns into a ghost on account of…