Empathy, as Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis

Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios

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“…At the same time, Rozakou indicates, the newly emerged egalitarian ethos of solidarity that has permeated Greek society under austerity appears to transform the self‐identification of middle‐class volunteers, leading to a newly relaxed and generous attitude toward asymmetrical giving (Rozakou 2016b). The experience of austerity seems to inspire empathetic perspectives (see Kirtsoglou and Theodossopoulos 2018), encapsulated by the everyday figure of speech, “today it is you, tomorrow it will be me” (Kirtsoglou 2018b).…”

Section: Greek Solidarity Dilemmas: Anthropological Insightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They can help us appreciate how the latter reconcile a commitment to the left with the political compromise inherent in local humanitarian action and international politics. In both cases, socialism is perceived as inextricable from giving and forgiving—the cultivation of empathy (see Kirtsoglou and Theodossopoulos 2018; Kirtsoglou 2018b) and the practice of a less calculative rationality.…”

Section: Solidarity Beyond Political Compromise: Views From the Grassmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Solidarity Dilemmas in Times of Austerity: Auto-ethnographic Interventions

Theodossopoulos

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article introduces an autobiographical analytical tool that aims to elucidate the complexity and interweaving of opposing ideological positions as these emerge in the field and while writing ethnography. The technique introduced makes visible the split of the author's identity into two: between that of a hard and a soft Marxist, where each authorial self resonates with a particular local perspective. The split and those who have stimulated it—the real‐life protagonists in the field—become reanimated and embodied through the self‐mirroring representational lens of graphic ethnography. Overall, the article provides an experimental exercise in reflexive Marxist anthropology, which, apart from ethnographic innovation, engages with the ambivalence and codependence of competing arguments about the ethics of humanitarian solidarity in austerity‐afflicted Greece. The essay suggests that local arguments about solidarity are coconstituted through pragmatism and productive self‐critique in times of protracted austerity.

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Section: Greek Solidarity Dilemmas: Anthropological Insightsmentioning

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Section: Solidarity Beyond Political Compromise: Views From the Grassmentioning

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Solidarity Dilemmas in Times of Austerity: Auto-ethnographic Interventions

Theodossopoulos

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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Temporalities, a Disability Chronotope, and Empathetic Horizons inStill Human

Cockain

2021

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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The article engages with arrangements of time and space and how they conjoin to constitute a disability chronotope that combines with other textual elements to both expand and limit empathetic horizons in Still Human, a film about a physically impaired middle-aged man and his Pilipino foreign domestic helper (FDH), set largely within a Hong Kong public housing estate. The study distinguishes between the text’s declarative and descriptive layers, albeit while recognizing the forced and perhaps violent nature of this division. Structuring the surface of the film are technical codes and a chronological, optimistic, and sometimes humorous overcoming narrative through which protagonists triumph over tragedy. However, the surface of the text is intermittently disturbed by descriptive layers, or figurative currents. Although this troubling content appears peripheral to, and on the margins of, the text, this underlying and seemingly extraneous content is a crucial supplement which may more effectively realize authorial intentions to disclose the protagonists’ humanness and engender empathy than the more prominent technical codes that structure the text’s surface. Such coexisting layers illustrate how texts are stratified and how the content of texts and the intentions of authors are haunted by undecidability.

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Empathy, as Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis

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Solidarity Dilemmas in Times of Austerity: Auto-ethnographic Interventions

Solidarity Dilemmas in Times of Austerity: Auto-ethnographic Interventions

Temporalities, a Disability Chronotope, and Empathetic Horizons inStill Human

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