Afterword

in Conflict and Society
Author:
Peter Hervik Aalborg University hervik@cgs.aau.dk

Search for other papers by Peter Hervik in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
Restricted access

Abstract

This afterword offers reflections on some major points of this section concerning the generative power linking moral outrage to political violence. The authors have successfully taken up a topic of immense relevance and urgency in contemporary society. Their efforts are a first important step to address this from an empirical, analytical, and theoretical framework. In the afterword, I seek to add further perspectives to some of the findings, including a focus on moral outrage that situates it not strictly within personality as a preexisting universal that waits for someone to wake it up but rather in an approach to emotions as embedded within cultural understandings with an emphasis on the strategic side of the production of moral outrage in creating both positive and negative change.

Contributor Notes

PETER HERVIK is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of Migration Studies in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen and taught international migration and ethnic relations at Malmö University. He has conducted research among the Yucatec Maya of Mexico and on the representation in the news media of religious and ethnic minorities in Denmark, particularly themes of radical right-wing populism, neonationalism, neoracism, ethnicization, Islamophobia, and related issues. Email: hervik@cgs.aau.dk

  • Collapse
  • Expand

Conflict and Society

Advances in Research

  • Albertson, Bethany, and Shana Kusher Gadarian. 2012. Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Atran, Scott. 2016. “The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures.” Current Anthropology 57 (S13): 192203.

  • Barth, Frederik. 1995. “Other Knowledge and Other Ways of KnowingJournal of Anthropological Research 51 (1): 6568.

  • Boe, Carolina Sanchez, and Peter Hervik. 2008. “Integration through Insult.” In Transnational Media Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Clash of Civilizations, ed. Elizabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius, and Angela Phillips, 213234. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Buuren, Jelle van. 2013. “Spur to Violence? Anders Behring Breivik and the Eurabia Conspiracy.” Nordic Journal of Migration Research 3 (4): 205215.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Buzan, Barry, Ole Wæver, and Jaap de Wilde. 1998. Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner.

  • D’Andrade, Roy G. 1992. “Schemas and Motivation.” In D’Andrade and Strauss 1992: 2344.

  • D’Andrade, Roy G., and Claudia Strauss, eds. 1992. Human Motives and Cultural Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Francis, Matthew D. M. 2016. “Why the ‘Sacred” Is a Better Resource than ‘Religion’ for Understanding Terrorism.” Terrorism and Political Violence 28 (5): 912927.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Goodenough, Ward H. 1997. “Moral Outrage: Territoriality in Human Guise.” Zygon 32 (1): 527.

  • Guenif-Souilamas, Nacira, Abdellali Hajjat, Marwan Mohammed, et al. 2015. “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? A Statement by French Social Scientists of Arab and African Origin Following the Paris Attacks.” Truthout, 26 January. http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/28742-how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-problem-a-statement-by-french-social-scientists-of-arab-and-african-origin-following-the-paris-attacks. Accessed 7 August.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Guyjohn59. 2010. “Nayirah Kuwaiti Girl Testimony.Video, 6:7. Posted 15 June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfVs3WaE9Y. Accessed 7 August.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Hervik, Peter. 2011. The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World. New York: Berghahn Books.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Hervik, Peter. 2014. “Cultural War of Values: The Proliferation of Moral Identities in the Danish Public Sphere.” In Becoming Minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India, ed. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan, 154173. New Delhi: Sage.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Hervik, Peter. 2018. “Refiguring the Public, Political and Personal in Current Danish Exclusionary Reasoning.” In Political Sentiments and Social Movements: The Person in Politics and Culture, ed. Claudia Strauss and Jack Friedman, 91117. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Holland, Dorothy C., and Naomi Quinn, eds. 1987. Cultural Models in Language and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Holland, Dorothy, and Margaret Eisenhart. 1990. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Holland, Dorothy C., William Lachicotte Jr., Debra Skinner, and Carole Cain. 1998. Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. Cambridge, MA: University of Harvard Press.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Hunter, James Davison. 1991. Cultural Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: BasicBooks.

  • Huntington, Samuel. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs 72 (3): 2249.

  • Kr Nel. 2008. “The Incubator Babies Conspiracy.” Video, 2:46. Posted 23 March. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v94WsjWKQ3U. Accessed 7 August.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Lentin, Alana. 2008. Racism: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford: Oneworld.

  • Lewis, Bernard. 1990. “The Roots of Muslim Rage.Atlantic Monthly 266 (3): 4760.

  • Lutz, Catherine A. 1988. Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Lutz, Catherine A. 2017. “What Matters.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (2): 181191.

  • Lutz, Catherine A., and Lila Abu-Lughod, eds. 1990. Language and the Politics of Emotion. New York: Cambridge University Press.

  • Martin, Emily. 2013. “The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory.” Current Anthropology 54 (S7): 149158.

  • Massumi, Brian. 2002. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

  • McCullough, Michael. 2018. “The Myth of Moral Outrage.” Center for Humans and Nature. https://www.humansandnature.org/mind-morality-michael-mccullough. Accessed 7 August.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Nabil, Inaam. 2013. “‘Siden er jeg blevet omtalt på en måde, så jeg har følt mig kriminel’” [Since that time, I have been referred to in a way that made me feel like a criminal]. Information, 3 July.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Nussbaum, Martha C. 2012.The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

  • Nohrstedt, Stig A., ed. 2010. Communicating Risks: Towards the Threat Society. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

  • Peterson, Mark Allen. 2007. “Making Global News: ‘Freedom of Speech’ and ‘Muslim Rage’ in US Journalism.” Contemporary Islam 1 (3): 247264.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Schneider, Anne, and Helen Ingram. 1993. “Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and PolicyAmerican Political Science Review 87 (2): 334347.

    • Crossref
    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Strauss, Claudia. 1992. “Models and Motives.” In D’Andrade and Strauss 1992: 120.

  • Warren, Kay B. 1996. “Enduring Tensions and Changing Identities: Mayan Family Struggles in Guatemala.” In History in Person: Enduring Struggles and the Practice of Identity, ed. Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave, 6392. Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Wodak, Ruth, ed. 2015. The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean. London: Sage.

Metrics

All Time Past Year Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 524 251 39
Full Text Views 26 3 1
PDF Downloads 39 1 0