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Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Géricault's Le Radeau de La Méduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a ""gravitational force"", namely as a moment in which t

In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state.
Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiences—gratitude, resentment, and resilience—to reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In so doing, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity.
"Lived Refuge allows us to see refugees in a new way. Vinh Nguyen's engagement with the experiments, negotiations, and refusals of refuge provides a unique window into understanding how refugee subjectivity is enacted today." — PETER NYERS, McMaster University
"In haunting, lyrical prose with Walter Benjamin's urgency and Raymond Williams' political deftness, Nguyen's illuminating study marks a milestone in migration studies at large." — B. VENKAT MANI, author of Cosmopolitical Claims and Recoding World Literature
"Nguyen offers a masterful, unrelenting rebuttal to state-sanctioned narratives of 'deserving' refugees. After reading Lived Refuge, you'll realize that we need refugees more than they need us." — ERIC TANG, author of Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto

"In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions of people. While refuge is conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends narrow judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation, rather than a fixed category whose legitimacy is derived from the state. Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas that formed in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiences-gratitude, resentment, and resilience-to reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of "safety" and "protection" that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In doing so, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity"--

"The recent United States presidential election as well as the responses to the protests about the death of Blacks at the hands of the police has brought forward the question of racism among white voters. In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren Davis and David Wilson explore the idea that racial resentment, rather than simply racial prejudice, is the basis for growing resistance among whites to efforts to improve the circumstances faced by minorities in the United States. The authors start with the idea that there is growing sentiment among whites that they are "losing-out" and "being cut in line" by Blacks and other minorities, as reflected in an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, multiculturalism, trigger warnings, and political correctness, an increase in African Americans occupying powerful and prestigious positions, and the election of Barack Obama as the first Black president. The culprits, as they see it, are undeserving Blacks, as well as other minorities, who are perceived to benefit unfairly from, and take advantage of, resources that come at whites' expense. This rewarding of unearned resources challenges the status quo and the "rules of the game," especially as they relate to justice and deservingness. These reactions may not stem from racial prejudice or hatred toward Blacks; instead, they may result from threats to whites' sense of justice, entitlement, and status. This sentiment is occurring among everyday citizens who do not subscribe to hate-filled racial or nationalistic ideologies but rather seek to treat everyone respectfully and equally, even those who are different, and understand that rejecting others because of racial prejudice is offensive."--

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Part I Prelude" -- "Chapter 1 Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant " -- "Past Empires: Impact" -- "Failed Empire: Grandiosity" -- "Future Empires: Inevitability" -- "Past Empires: Relics Revisited" -- "Close Circle: From the Ruins of Empire to Japanese Imperialism" -- "Part II Prologue" -- "Chapter 2 Empires: West and East—Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances " -- "A Tale of Two Empires: Japanese Adaptation and British Inspiration" -- "Adaptation: The Japanese Empire Circa 1940" -- "The British Empire Circa 1890: Inspiration" -- "The Making of British Imperial Masculinity" -- "Playing Field and Battlefield: Symbiosis" -- "Comments and Caveats" -- "Cultural Stereotypes: Cultural Consequences: Crucial Resonances" -- "Athleticism and Bushido: Mutuality: The Way of the Warrior" -- "Imperialism: 'Caveat Emptor:' Continuities and Discontinuities" -- "A Fresh Lens and a New Focus" -- "Japanese Complexity" -- "Japanese Idiosyncrasy" -- "Japanese Irony" -- "Japanese Imperialism: Distinctiveness and Disparity, Dislike and Distrust" -- "Distinctiveness and Disparity" -- "Dislike and Distrust" -- "Japanese Nationalism" -- "Ethical Ethnocentrism" -- "Victor and Victim" -- "Imperial Education: Self-Sacrifice Exalted" -- "Asymmetrical Ideological Association: Japanese Proselytizers of 'Anglo-Saxon' Athleticism" -- "Nemesis" -- "A Long and Dark Shadow" -- "APPENDIX ONE" -- "APPENDIX TWO" -- "References" -- "Part III Regional Reactions and Responses: Korea" -- "Chapter 3 Japanese Imperial Sport as Failed Cultural Conditioning: Korean 'Recalcitrance' " -- "Introduction" -- "Colonized Korea" -- "Introduction" -- "Japanese Colonial Sports Policies, Korean Sport and Korean Reactions During the Three Colonial Periods

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Democracy and Resentment -- Essay I. Reimagining the People: From Duas Civitates to E Pluribus Unum to E Unibus Duo -- Essay II. The Rise of the Politics of Resentment -- Essay III. The Rhetoric of Violence -- Conclusion: Resentment Ad Hominem and Ad Ratio: A Plea for Rhetorical Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Foreword / by Paul Snowdon -- Intellectual autobiography / by P.F. Strawson -- Freedom and resentment -- Social morality and individual ideal -- Imagination and perception -- Causation in perception -- Perception and identification -- Categories -- Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations -- Self, mind, and body -- Aesthetic appraisal and works of art -- Is existence never a predicate? -- On understanding the structure of one's language

We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustice in a way no rational recognition of wrongs alone can, and it motivates us to demand justice on others' behalves. This book rehabilitates arguments for the moral and political worth of resentment developed by three influential thinkers in the early liberal tradition - Joseph Butler, David Hume, and Adam Smith - and uses these to advance a theory of spectatorial resentment, discussing why we should be indignant about the injustice others face, and how such a shared sentiment can actually bring liberal citizens closer together.

We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustice in a way no rational recognition of wrongs alone can, and it motivates us to demand justice on others' behalves. This book rehabilitates arguments for the moral and political worth of resentment developed by three influential thinkers in the early liberal tradition - Joseph Butler, David Hume, and Adam Smith - and uses these to advance a theory of spectatorial resentment, discussing why we should be indignant about the injustice others face, and how such a shared sentiment can actually bring liberal citizens closer together.