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Ideologies of moral exclusion: A critical discursive reframing of depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization
Author(s) -
Tileagă Cristian
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1348/014466607x186894
Subject(s) - dehumanization , humanity , cognitive reframing , depersonalization , ideology , social psychology , sociology , social exclusion , psychology , epistemology , politics , political science , philosophy , emotional exhaustion , clinical psychology , burnout , anthropology , law
This paper focuses on some of the issues that arise when one treats notions such as depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization as social practices. It emphasizes the importance of: (a) understanding depersonalizing, delegitimizing and dehumanizing constructions as embedded in descriptions of located spatial activities and moral standings in the world and (b) invoking and building a socio‐moral order linked to notions of lesser humanity or non‐humanity, (spatial) transgression and abjection. These concerns are illustrated by taking talk on Romanies as a case in point from interviews with Romanian middle‐class professionals. It is argued that a focus on description rather than explanation might be more effective in understanding the dynamics of ideologies of moral exclusion.