Sentiment

Bens, Jonas; Zenker, Olaf

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“…The struggle over how a particular case should be understood and localized within one of the available legal contexts is related to particular patterns and evaluative regimes of meaning that Bens and Zenker (2019) call sentiments. The concept of sentiment is central to the normative dimension of affective and emotional dynamics and thus to the reproduction of normative orders (Bens and Zenker 2019, 100).…”

Section: "Sentiments Of Justice": the Decision Of The Chancellor Of Justice And The Competing Legal Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, social and cultural studies have witnessed a proliferation of inquiries focusing on emotion and affect (e.g. Stearns and Stearns 1985, Reddy 2001, Gregg and Seigworth 2010, Frevert 2010, 2014a, 2014b, Scheer 2012, Ahmed 2014, Matt and Stearns 2014, Rosenwein and Cristiani 2018, Bens 2018, Bens and Zenker 2019. Without going deeper into the differences between the many approaches and ways of theorizing emotion and affect, I will briefly explain the terms as used in this article.…”

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“…However, when referring to how affect or sensation is being named and interpreted, I use the term "emotion". In addition to these, in the final section of the article I use the term "sentiment of justice", which was coined by Bens and Zenker (2019) who wanted to conceptually connect cognitive processes of evaluating and judging with affective and emotional dynamics. "Sentiment" thus governs what people feel about the meaning of a context, which here is the context of justice and law.…”

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Affective constructions of justice: ISIS-families and the law in the Finnish public debate

Mustasaari

2021

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This article examines the political process and public debate in Finland concerning the Finnish women and children held captive in the refugee camp of Al-Hol in north-east Syria. The article studies the role of affect in the process of constructing justice in these debates. It argues that the debate demonstrates an affective process of bordering, in which a non-belonging and essentially non-Finnish identity was affectively constructed to the mothers, who were depicted as “converts” and “jihadists”. Emotions such as compassion were mobilised in the process with ambiguous outcomes. On the one hand, reference to compassion served the conservative agenda of attaching rights to worthiness, on the other hand reference to compassion towards the figure of the innocent child served to isolate the children from their mothers. In the legal context, the affectively constructed identities of the mothers as non-belonging were relevant to how the issue of rights and legal obligations of the state became perceived as something belonging to the realm of national law or international law. Este artículo examina el proceso político y el debate público de Finlandia sobre las mujeres y niños finlandeses en cautividad en el campo de refugiados de Al-Hol, al nordeste de Siria. El artículo estudia el rol del afecto en el proceso de construcción de justicia en estos debates. Se argumenta que el debate pone de manifiesto un proceso afectivo de construcción de fronteras, en el cual se construyó afectivamente para las madres una identidad no perteneciente y básicamente no finlandesa, al ser retratadas como “conversas” y “yihadistas”. Se movilizaron emociones como la compasión, con resultados ambiguos. De una parte, la alusión a la compasión sirvió a los propósitos del programa conservador de conectar derechos con valor personal; de la otra, la alusión a la compasión por la figura del niño inocente sirvió para aislar a los hijos de sus madres. En el contexto jurídico, las identidades de las madres, construidas afectivamente como no pertenecientes, fueron importantes porque hicieron que los derechos y las obligaciones jurídicas fueran percibidos como pertenecientes a la esfera del derecho nacional o internacional.

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Section: "Sentiments Of Justice": the Decision Of The Chancellor Of Justice And The Competing Legal Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2021

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“…Political trials are, and also shall be, affect-regulation-machines. They shall affectively interfere with collective perceptions of justice and injustice and promote specific sentiments (Bens/Zenker 2019).…”

Section: The Political Trial and The Regulation Of Affectmentioning

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“…Third, since we hold that affects and emotions cannot be reduced to particular domains, we also argue that they cannot be narrowly localized within moments of spontaneity, dynamism, movement and rupture. Social science research on emotion and sentiments (Frijda 1994;Bens/Zenker 2019) and certain strands of affect research (Stewart 2007;Bargetz 2016) have directed us to localize affect and emotions in the routine of the everyday and the mundane. That also means that any divide which associates affect with critique on the one side, and rationality with normative judgment on the other, becomes porous.…”

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The Politics of Affective Societies

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The series EmotionCultures is a collection of works centered around current questions raised in interdisciplinary and innovative research on emotions. At the core are empirical studies from Social and Cultural Anthropology that analyze processes of social and cultural modeling of emotions -always in close theoretical as well as methodological connection to various other disciplines. Key topics concern the generation of emotional codes in interaction with socio-cultural, historical, and political structures. Thus, this series ranges from the socialization of emotions in childhood to their transformation with increasing age. It incorporates reconfigurations of emotions against the backdrop of changing life conditions. Furthermore, a particular focus rests upon the emotional dynamics inherent to processes of migration, globalization, and transnationalization.The series is edited by Birgitt Röttger-Rössler and Anita von Poser.

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