“…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.…”