Introduction: Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation
dc.contributor.author | Hughes, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Mehtta, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Bresciani, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Strange, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-09T16:00:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-09-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 interand 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. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 37 (2), pp. 1 - 20 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3167/cja.2019.370202 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/40043 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Berghahn | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 1 September 2021 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Journal of Legal Anthropology 2019. Available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence | en_GB |
dc.subject | accusation | en_GB |
dc.subject | affect | en_GB |
dc.subject | ethics | en_GB |
dc.subject | intersubjectivity | en_GB |
dc.subject | orders of indexicality | en_GB |
dc.subject | ugly emotions | en_GB |
dc.title | Introduction: Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-09T16:00:21Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-7674 | |
dc.description | This the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Berghahn via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Cambridge Journal of Anthropology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-08-21 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-09-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-12-09T15:33:33Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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