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Alienation and Emotions
Alienation and Emotions
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 201C (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research (host committee) Language: English
As capitalist globalization expands and deepens, corporate power increases along with global, national, and local inequalities. New geo-political power configurations and confrontations are emerging, with violence being used as a tool to oppress and also to resist oppression. Colonial histories and contemporary land appropriations reflect the structures and cultural processes that perpetuate violence against indigenous and minority communities, while states’ failures to meet their responsibility to provide basic resources are often deflected by blaming the most vulnerable. Both global economic and geo-political processes create crises and massive displacements of people and, at the same time, fuel racism, nationalism, and xenophobia. These are all processes that are closely related to the experience of different varieties of alienation, including normlessness, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, cultural estrangement, and powerlessness. As a result, there is a renewed need for further theory and research so that alienation as an experienced state of mind can be understood, and both its structural causes and socio-behavioural consequences better analysed and addressed. The concept of alienation can be employed in such a way that it attends to individual psychological and emotional states as well as broader structural factors related to the processes mentioned above. This session will be dedicated to the role of affect, sentiment, and emotion within alienation. A specific focus will be given to the experience and structural causes of alienation on individual and group levels. All presentation related to the subject - theoretical, empirical, or methodological in character - are of interest.
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