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Narratives of groups that kill other groups
In: Democracy in Crisis, S. 67-89
Cruel identities
In: On cruelty, S. 189-210
"Based on the famous experiments of the psychologists Robert Solomon and Martin Seligman on avoidance learning and learned helplessness in which dogs were tortured with electric shocks, the article examines the role of emotion and identity in cruelty. Emotions are theorized as evaluative judgments about items that we regard as important for our well being, but do not fully control. Therefore they contain an inevitable reference to the self and are constitutive parts of role-identities. Empirical studies of the academic education of biological and medical professionals show how indifference to suffering and the suppression of compassion is part of the socialization process of scientists. This psychological make-up of emotional indifference is stabilized through the organization of social relations and spatial arrangements. Thus, in the laboratory a social world is created, in which dogs are seen as the carrier of scientific data, and where cruelties become rituals of sacrificing in the name of science. The article concludes with a reflection on self, time and indifference." (author's abstract)
Peaceful Identities?
In: The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War-torn Sri Lanka, S. 184-231
Occupational Identities
In: Understanding Identity & Organizations, S. 70-99
Representations and Identities
In: Queer Identities and Politics in Germany, S. 122-161
Identities and capabilities
In: Integration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland, S. 1-13
The Manufacture of Identities
In: Postmodern Narrative Theory, S. 25-40