Exceptionalism, Counterterrorism, and the Emotional Politics of Human Rights

Ross, Andrew A. G.; Ariffin, Yohan; Coicaud, Jean-Marc

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“…This conceptualization straddles the line between two notions, one associated with the universal aspect of rights underlying liberal democracy, and the other symbolic and performative aspect of rights associated with recognition, status, belonging and collective emotions. The link between rights and emotions relies on the idea that emotions are shaped by culturally produced meanings and embedded in specific social and political contexts (Bleiker and Hutchison, 2008, 2014; Crawford, 2000, 2014; Hall and Ross, 2015; Löwenheim and Heimann, 2008; Mercer, 2010, 2014; Ross, 2014, 2016). 2 Here, rights are associated with collective emotions by the way that they help delineate the boundaries of political communities in terms of who belongs and who does not.…”

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“…Strong collective identities constructed around pervasive shared understandings condition the emergence of ‘emotional’ consensus, also by reinforcing confidence in the appropriateness of particular emotional responses (Mercer, 2014: 526). The link between identity and emotion supplies the basis for understanding how compromising rights in the name of security is made possible (Ross, 2016). Exceptional politics are ultimately defined in relation to a specific body of legally codified rights and procedures.…”

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Theorizing the social foundations of exceptional security politics: Rights, emotions and community

Norman¹

2017

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article theorizes the social processes through which purportedly liberal democratic states compromise fundamental rights in times of perceived security crises. It has become increasingly common to suggest that a general culture of fear serves both as the motor and the outcome of exceptional security politics. This article suggests instead that the transgression of fundamental rights in the name of security is intimately connected to collective feelings of humiliation and the reassertion of self-worth through efforts to re-establish the integrity of imagined communities. To demonstrate this, the article highlights the dual character of rights, having both a formal and a symbolic function, associated with collective emotions. By theorizing the connections between rights, emotions and belonging the article offers the building blocks for a more nuanced and possibly more accurate understanding of why exceptional security politics tend to elicit such broad public support in spite of its often-glaring contradictions to fundamental principles of liberal democracy.

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Theorizing the social foundations of exceptional security politics: Rights, emotions and community

Norman¹

2017

Cooperation and Conflict

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Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions

Clément

Sangar

2017

Researching Emotions in International Relations

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Excavating the Emotional Nongovernmental Organization

Prakash

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations

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This chapter focuses on the emotional dynamics of nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs’) behavior and influence in international politics. Emotions appear frequently in foundational work on the role of civil society non-state actors, especially NGOs, in international relations (IR), yet they operate as implicit and undertheorized background assumptions. By harnessing key concepts and frameworks from within scholarship on emotions in IR, and by using shame as a primary illustration, the chapter identifies pathways for how to center emotions in understanding NGOs’ political influence in IR. It begins by interrogating prevailing conceptions of emotions as “tools” used strategically by NGOs in their advocacy. It then goes beyond that conventional view to make the case for taking NGOs’ fuller emotional lives seriously as well as to examine how hierarchy and power might determine the exercise of an NGO’s emotional politics vis-à-vis a number of actors.

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Exceptionalism, Counterterrorism, and the Emotional Politics of Human Rights

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Theorizing the social foundations of exceptional security politics: Rights, emotions and community

Theorizing the social foundations of exceptional security politics: Rights, emotions and community

Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions

Excavating the Emotional Nongovernmental Organization

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