Privilegiets problem: Mellem den humanitære og den kyniske fornuft
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Privilegiets problem : Mellem den humanitære og den kyniske fornuft. / Sharma, Devika.
In: K&K. Kultur og Klasse, Vol. 41, No. 116, 2013, p. 89-102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Privilegiets problem
T2 - Mellem den humanitære og den kyniske fornuft
AU - Sharma, Devika
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this article I explore a contemporary structure of feeling closely but ambivalently related to what moral anthropologist Didier Fassin has termed ”humanitarian reason”. I label this specific affective disposition ‘the predicament of privilege’. In the first part of the article I relate the predicament of privilege to various critiques of humanitarianism for being a ”feeling culture” depoliticizing questions of inequality, justice and social conflict. The latter part of the article examines ”the predicament of privilege” by way of analyzing a recurring Danish TV-fundraiser in terms of the various ugly feelings represented, produced and circulated by this particular charity show. My overall suggestion is that we can hardly understand the affective-moral dimensions of globalization without exploring the cultural forms and social functions of the ugly, unprestigious and amoral feelings pertaining to being globally privileged: sentiments such as boredom, indifference, compassion fatigue, cynicism, bad conscience and sheer reluctance to engage emotionally in the ethical claims made on us.
AB - In this article I explore a contemporary structure of feeling closely but ambivalently related to what moral anthropologist Didier Fassin has termed ”humanitarian reason”. I label this specific affective disposition ‘the predicament of privilege’. In the first part of the article I relate the predicament of privilege to various critiques of humanitarianism for being a ”feeling culture” depoliticizing questions of inequality, justice and social conflict. The latter part of the article examines ”the predicament of privilege” by way of analyzing a recurring Danish TV-fundraiser in terms of the various ugly feelings represented, produced and circulated by this particular charity show. My overall suggestion is that we can hardly understand the affective-moral dimensions of globalization without exploring the cultural forms and social functions of the ugly, unprestigious and amoral feelings pertaining to being globally privileged: sentiments such as boredom, indifference, compassion fatigue, cynicism, bad conscience and sheer reluctance to engage emotionally in the ethical claims made on us.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - Affekt
KW - medlidenhed
KW - Sianne Ngai
KW - Didier Fassin
KW - humanitarisme
KW - Danmarksindsamlingen
KW - humanitarianism, compassion, privilege, Danamarksindsamlingen, Sianne Ngai, Didier Fassin
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 41
SP - 89
EP - 102
JO - K & K
JF - K & K
SN - 0905-6998
IS - 116
ER -
ID: 57780396