Open AccessWhen We Feel: Racialized Emotions and Epistemic Violence in German Higher Education
Author(s) -
Angelo Camufingo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teaching anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2053-9843
DOI - 10.22582/ta.v10i4.626
Subject(s) - german , race (biology) , emotion work , power (physics) , sociology , social psychology , psychology , higher education , gender studies , linguistics , political science , philosophy , law , physics , quantum mechanics
In this article I autoethnographically examine and reflect upon the connection between racialized emotions and epistemic violence in higher education. By having a closer look at one of the seminars I attended and my work in the General Student Committee, I analyse how every racialized emotion is consequential. Drawing on Ahmed’s (2012), Bonilla-Silva’s (2019), Lutz and Abu-Lughod’s (1990) and other’s notions of emotion and power I discuss my experiences and strengthen the understanding of emotion in race-related issues and knowledge-discourse.