Open AccessHow do we Live and Lose Together?
Author(s) -
Kyla Hazell
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the thinker
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2075-2458
DOI - 10.36615/thethinker.v86i1.447
Subject(s) - humanity , argument (complex analysis) , grief , racism , vulnerability (computing) , sociology , epistemology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , gender studies , psychology , philosophy , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , computer security , computer science , psychotherapist
Exclusion from the category of full humanity constructs certain populations as ‘ungrievable’ or ‘unworthy of grief’ after death in a way that creates and reinforces radical vulnerability in the conditions they experience. This argument from Judith Butler resonates clearly with what decolonial thinkers have described as a fundamental feature of how racism emerges and operates in the modern world system. Building on these understandings, this article considers the potential and limitations of working with grief as a conceptual framework for tackling the apathy of whiteness as part of anti-racist work.