dc.contributor.author | Krueger, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-15T10:41:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-07-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-01-12T20:11:03Z | |
dc.description.abstract | There is growing philosophical interest in “affective injustice”: injustice faced by individuals specifically in their capacity as affective beings. Current debates tend to focus on affective injustice at the psychological level. In this paper, I argue that the built environment can be a vehicle for affective injustice — specifically, what Wildman et al. (2022) term “affective powerlessness”. I use resources from ecological psychology to develop this claim. I consider two
cases where certain kinds of bodies are, either intentionally or unintentionally, deprived of access to goods affording the development and maintenance of their subjective well-being: hostile architecture and masking practices in autism. This deprivation, I argue further, leads to a significant weakening and diminishment of their spatial agency, hinders their well-being, and in so doing gives rise to a pervasive experience of affective powerlessness. By drawing attention to these themes, I show that an ecological approach helpfully supplements existing approaches. It highlights how affective injustice can emerge via the way bodies are positioned in space, and the central role that built environments play in determining this positioning. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 51 (1), pp. 85 - 111 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5840/philtopics20235115 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135020 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-0931-1596 (Krueger, Joel) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Arkansas Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas | |
dc.subject | affective injustice | en_GB |
dc.subject | ecological psychology | en_GB |
dc.subject | affordances | en_GB |
dc.subject | autism | en_GB |
dc.subject | hostile architecture | en_GB |
dc.title | An ecological approach to affective injustice | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-15T10:41:53Z | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the University of Arkansas Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2154-154X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Philosophical Topics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-11-01 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2023-08-21 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-11-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-01-12T20:11:06Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-08-16T14:19:57Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |