Cultural appropriation and the intimacy of groups

Cultural appropriation and aesthetic normativity

“…In the next section I will offer some remarks regarding what I think aesthetic externalism predicts about how the morality of an act can come to impact its aesthetic significance, however I am unable to provide a thoroughgoing investigation into what the best explanation is for how to understand the connection between moral and aesthetic normativity. One thing it is interesting to note is that while I take aesthetic externalism to be compatible with a range of moral analyses of cultural appropriation, it also seems particularly well-equipped to compliment Nguyen and Strohl's (2019) insight that some cases of cultural appropriation constitute breaches of intimacy and can be impermissible on this basis. It seems plausible to me that a breach of intimacy can have not only moral significance, but aesthetic significance as well, if an act's being a breach of intimacy could prevent it from being aesthetically successful.…”

“…4 Matthes (2019). 5 Nguyen and Strohl (2019). 6 It is important to note that while the term ''cultural appropriation'' is often taken to have a negative valence, my usage is neutral.…”

Bunad, minorities and belonging in Norway

“…This has often been called the 'oppression account' (Matthes, 2019). On the other hand, adherents of the 'intimacy account' appeal on the basis of boundary policing of intimate practices that are expressively established (Nguyen & Strohl, 2019). The 'intimacy account' has been criticized for a group-endorsement model of determining membership.…”

Medicalization and linguistic agency

“…One example of this is the use of pet names to express affection between partners. Thi Nguyen and Strohl (2019) claim that if two spouses have pet names for each other (e.g., 'Peanut Butter' and 'Jelly') and request that nobody else use those names, then it is wrong for anyone else to do so. They ground this moral claim in the intimacy between the spouses, who, through exercising their linguistic agency, institute a negative norm that applies only to people outside of their marriage.…”