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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Dehumanization"”.
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Dehumanization and irregular warfare
In the current global environment the practice of dehumanizationthe stripping away of common attributes among people that call for respect and constrain violenceand the misperception it creates have resulted in misguided attempts by militaries to influence the center of gravity in irregular …
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Towards a Greater Understanding of the Antecedents of Dehumanization: A Contempt-Dehumanization Framework
Although dehumanization has been studied in a variety of conceptual and methodological paradigms, surprisingly little is known about the role of affect as a mediator of the dehumanization process. In this paper we propose and test a contempt-dehumanization model, which stipulates that, the effect …
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Borders: Separation, Detention, and Dehumanization
Borders: Separation, Detention, and Dehumanization is an exhibition that calls attention to the worsening situation at the southern border. The show is composed of large paintings and drawings, depicting scenes of either separation or detention, and an element of human suffering portrayed by …
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Fetishizing Southern Brutality: An Intersectional Analysis of Animalistic Dehumanization in Interracial Pornography
… thesis addresses the violent humiliation and dehumanization of oppressed bodies that have become standard in porn. My first and second chapters work to analyze the films of DogFart Productions, a company specializing in interracial pornography, often with neoconfederate themes. Each uses …
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White fear, dehumanization and low empathy: A lethal combination for shooting biases
… (i.e., White fear) and implicit attitudes (i.e., dehumanization) play a role in White participants’ decisions to shoot racial ethnic minorities in a shooting simulation task and (2) whether empathy (i.e., empathic concern and perspective taking) moderated those relations. Two hundred seven White …
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The Moral Side of Dehumanization: From Harm to Reparation across Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations
Adopting an interpersonal perspective on dehumanization, recent research has shown that immorality leaves traces not only in how we perceive others in human terms, but also in how we view ourselves. While victims’ self-dehumanization has been associated with negative consequences that may …
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The dehumanization of nature and the naturalization of the human: A study of Spinoza and Nietzsche
In this dissertation, I shall argue that Spinoza and Nietzsche alike were committed to a twofold task: that of dehumanizing nature and naturalizing the human. I will further argue that this is an ethical task insofar as their ultimate objective was to discover the real basis for human excellence. …
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Motherwit through the Lives of Alberta King, Berdis Baldwin, and Louise Little
… history. 2) Present and analyze the dehumanization of Black American women in its varying forms including erasure, misrecognition, and misrepresentation. 3) Analyze and contribute to Black American women’s resistance to such dehumanization. 4) Define the term “motherwit” as a way to …
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Relocating the Female Body: "Queering" as Routes for Agency
… it develops a female body that acknowledges the dehumanization, objectification, and otherness it has undergone in each place, memory, and history. However, it is through these historical acknowledgments that allow for an alternative narrative and routes of agency to be developed in the …
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ETD: "We still have to unlearn. We are programmed, you know? analyzing black South African's violence against foreign black Africans Previous title: race and the "infernal circle" of dehumanization: an analysis of South Africa's negrophobia
In South Africa, “xenophobia” – the label commonly used to refer to Black South Africans' violence against foreign Black Africans - is often primarily connected to economic competition, which might silence any racial dynamics at play. Yet, given how western colonialism and White supremacy have …
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Liberation is Accountable Connection: A Healthcare Leader's Perspective
… from self and others. The fear, scarcity, and dehumanization widen the gap and create a landscape that harms all, including those who seemingly benefit from it, at the cost of connection to our shared humanity.The inquiry centred on how living conscious inquiry into understanding the …
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The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times
… thematically and formalistically support the dehumanization concept Dickens is portraying. Thus Dickens turned, as it were, toward a potentially revolutionary form within which to accomodate what is in many ways his most original piece of writing.
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'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration
… have long-circulated in the United States. This dehumanization is instrumental to several purposes, including leading to increased profit for the companies that contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the provision of political scapegoats in times of crisis; and the upholding of …
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To the Marrow: Poems and Essays
… of poetry and essays focusing on animalization, dehumanization, loss, love, and freedom. At the heart of the collection is a woman striving to assert herself in a relationship that has become restrictive and unbalanced. This effort causes her to form connections between herself and animals, …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… mothers' bereavement included six processes: (1) dehumanization; (2) ongoing shock; (3) diversity in bereavement responses; (4) spiritual and religious aspects; (5) construction of meaning; and (6) emerging self-transcendence. Mothers' bereavement responses were highly reflective of their own …
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Emancipatory education and democratic politics: An analysis of the sociological imagination in a first grade classroom
… Braced with Freire’s 1970 summoning to resist dehumanization in society and education, I have pursued with disappointment existing democratic and humanizing trails in schools. Excited to exit one district and move to another known as “exceptional” in the region, I found myself even more limited …
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Migrant Surveillance and State Power: Electronic Tagging of Asylum-Seekers in the UK
… lack of accountability, enforced paranoia, and dehumanization. Within the community, asylum-seekers are unable to work, volunteer, or participate in civil society because of the tag. Yet despite the psychological trauma and physical restrictions, electronically tagged asylum-seekers fight …
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Psychotherapy Task-Based Assessment of Therapists' Multicultural Orientation: A Measurement Development Study
… the Color Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS), Dehumanization Scale, Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), and the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR). This study was on one of the first performance multicultural measures for therapists. The data from this study will help inform …
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants as a Function of National Identity Distinctiveness Threat and Imagined Contact
… motivating negative reactions including dehumanization, ethnocentrism, and a shift toward extremism, reducing opportunities for positive intergroup interaction. Researchers have shown that intergroup contact has been effective in improving outgroup attitudes by reducing intergroup …
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