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Ideologies of moral exclusion: a critical discursive reframing of depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization
This paper focuses on some of the issues that arise when one treats notions such as depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization as social practices. It emphasizes the importance of: (a) understanding depersonalizing, delegitimizing and dehumanizing constructions as embedded in descriptions of located spatial activities and moral standings in the world and (b) invoking and building a socio-moral order linked to notions of lesser humanity or non-humanity, (spatial) transgression and abjection. These concerns are illustrated by taking talk on Romanies as a case in point from interviews with Romanian middle-class professionals. It is argued that a focus on description rather than explanation might be more effective in understanding the dynamics of ideologies of moral exclusion.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
TILEAGA, C., 2007. Ideologies of moral exclusion: a critical discursive reframing of depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (4), pp. 717-737Publisher
© British Psychological SocietyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2007Notes
This article was published in the serial, British Journal of Social Psychology [© British Psychological Society]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466607X186894ISSN
0144-6665Language
- en