Hate as a Political Outcast
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Hate as a Political Outcast. / Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern.
In: Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2015, p. 69-84.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Hate as a Political Outcast
AU - Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Increasingly, certain types of crime, speech and prejudice are being targeted by European policy makers under the label of “hate.” Building on participant observations at anti-hate crime conferences in Copenhagen and Vilnius, and policy documents and campaign material from a range of national an international actors, this article probes the ways in which hate is problematized within current anti-hate crime activities in Europe. Hate seems here to work in two different ways: one dominant, emphasizing hate as prejudice, the other more implicit and ambiguous, emphasizing hate as an attitude of radical dislike. In both cases, hate is seen to jeopardize personal freedom, equality, tolerance, and democracy. This way of mobilizing potentially marginalizes the perpetratorsand makes it difficult to discuss the possible ways in which liberal democracy itself is entangledin labeling, producing and sustaining hatred.Keywords: hate, hate crime, politics, emotions, liberal democracy
AB - Increasingly, certain types of crime, speech and prejudice are being targeted by European policy makers under the label of “hate.” Building on participant observations at anti-hate crime conferences in Copenhagen and Vilnius, and policy documents and campaign material from a range of national an international actors, this article probes the ways in which hate is problematized within current anti-hate crime activities in Europe. Hate seems here to work in two different ways: one dominant, emphasizing hate as prejudice, the other more implicit and ambiguous, emphasizing hate as an attitude of radical dislike. In both cases, hate is seen to jeopardize personal freedom, equality, tolerance, and democracy. This way of mobilizing potentially marginalizes the perpetratorsand makes it difficult to discuss the possible ways in which liberal democracy itself is entangledin labeling, producing and sustaining hatred.Keywords: hate, hate crime, politics, emotions, liberal democracy
UR - http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/details.asp?eln=300368
M3 - Journal article
VL - 45
SP - 69
EP - 84
JO - Ethnologia Europaea
JF - Ethnologia Europaea
SN - 0425-4597
IS - 2
ER -
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