Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation Introduction

被引:14
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作者
Hughes, Geoffrey [1 ]
Mehtta, Megnaa [2 ]
Bresciani, Chiara [3 ,4 ]
Strange, Stuart [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Exeter, Dept Sociol Philosophy & Anthropol, Exeter, Devon, England
[2] London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Social Anthropol, London, England
[3] James Cook Univ, Anthropol, Cairns, Australia
[4] Univ Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
[5] Yale NUS Coll, Fac Social Sci, Singapore, Singapore
来源
CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY | 2019年 / 37卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国人文基金会;
关键词
accusation; affect; ethics; intersubjectivity; orders of indexicality; ugly emotions; ENVY;
D O I
10.3167/cja.2019.370202
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Ugly emotions like envy and greed tend to emerge ethnographically through accusations (as opposed to self-attribution), de-centring the individual psyche and drawing attention to how emotions are deployed in broader projects of moral policing. Tracking the moral, social dimension of emotions through accusations helps to account concretely for the political, economic and ideological factors that shape people's ethical worldviews - their defences, judgements and anxieties. Developing an anthropological understanding of these politics of accusation leads us to connect classical anthropological themes of witchcraft, scapegoating, and inter- and intra-communal conflict with ethnographic interventions into contemporary debates around speculative bubbles, inequality, migration, climate change and gender. We argue that a focus on the politics of accusation that surrounds envy and greed has the potential to allow for a more analytically subtle and grounded understanding of both ethics and emotions.
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