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\u00a0Fundamental Questions on Affective Injustice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room – Roscoe 2.5<\/p>\n

4-5 September, Manchester<\/p>\n

Affective injustice \u2013 suffered by individuals \u201cin their capacity as affective beings,\u201d i.e., capable of experiencing, interpreting, regulating, and expressing affective states and emotions (Srinivasan 2018) \u2013 has been attracting growing interest among normative political theorists and philosophers in the last decade.<\/p>\n

The nascent yet burgeoning affective injustice literature has thus far primarily centred on identifying relevant cases. For instance, some have focused on invidious forms of \u201caffective dilemmas,\u201d whereby oppressed groups\u2019 members are forced to either suppress their warranted emotions \u2013 e.g., anger, resentment \u2013 or risk exacerbating their disadvantage (Archer & Mills 2019; Srinivasan 2018). Others have analysed troubling cases of \u201cemotional imperialism\u201d and \u201cviolations of affective rights,\u201d such as when members of social groups who have suffered injustices in the past are pressured to participate in the emotional rituals of historically dominating cultural majorities \u2013 e.g., socially mandated public displays and expressions of grief and mourning for fallen soldiers (Archer & Matheson 2020; Archer 2024). Others still, have highlighted unequal \u2013 e.g., gendered or racialised \u2013 distributions of distinctively emotional burdens in social interactions \u2013 e.g., emotion work to regulate one\u2019s (or others\u2019) emotions so that others are spared efforts or embarrassment (Liebow & Glazer 2019; Villa 2024).<\/p>\n

With a few exceptions (Gallegos 2021; Whitney 2018), several theoretical questions concerning, e.g., the nature of affective injustice, its precise conceptualisation, and \u2013 more generally \u2013 its place within broader (egalitarian) social justice theories remain severely underexplored. This is problematic since the field of normative affective injustice theory is ripe for theoretical development, as the rich, long-standing research program on the affective and emotional dimensions of social, cultural, and political life in several cognate social science disciplines suggests (e.g., Ahmed 2004; Hochschild 1983, 2016).<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, the panel investigates issues related, but not limited, to the following points: definitions of affective harms, disadvantages and injustice (and relationships between them); how affective injustice relates to other types of injustice \u2013 e.g., epistemic injustice, structural oppression; accounts of \u201caffective rights,\u201d their normative grounds, possible correlative duties or responsibilities; normative and prescriptive analyses of emotion-related social practices and norms \u2013 e.g., external emotional regulation, emotion-centred stereotyping; role of emotions and beliefs in constituting affective injustice; affective injustice and political movements, practices of citizenship, institutions (e.g., state, workplace, education); collective dimensions of affective injustice.<\/p>\n

Convenors<\/em>: Rossella De Bernardi (University of Genoa) and Qu\u00e2n Nguyen (University College Dublin)<\/p>\n

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Wednesday 3rd<\/sup> September (<\/strong>Affective Injustice panel not in session<\/u>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:00-12:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Registration (it stays open later!)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12:30-13:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:30-14:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Welcome Speech<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:00-16:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Session 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Free to attend other workshops (list available on MANCEPT website)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:00-16:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:30-17:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Session 1 (continued) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Free to attend other workshops<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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17:45-19:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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MANCEPT Wine Reception<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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19:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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MANCEPT Conference Dinner<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thursday 4th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:30 Start of Affective Injustice panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 2 (9:30-11:30)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9:30-10:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Shiloh Whitney (Fordham)<\/em>, The Injustice of Affective Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10:30-11:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Samuel Kramer (K\u00f6ln)<\/em>: Pure Structural Injustice? Power, Responsibility, and Affective Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:30-12:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12:00-13:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Session 2 (continued)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pilar Lopez Cantero (Antwerp): <\/em>Distributive Affective Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:00-14:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 3 (14:00-16:00)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Shen\u00e9 de Rijk (Johannesburg)<\/em>: Toxic Positivity and Affective Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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15:00-16:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Hannah Lee (Groningen)<\/em>: The Hermeneutical Stakes of Affective Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:00-16:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 3 (continued)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Vespermann (Heidelberg)<\/em>, Sanna Tirkkonen (Helsinki)<\/em>: Existential Injustice: Structural Wrongs to Affective Dispositions<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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19:00 \u2013 Panel dinner at Bundobust Brewery<\/em>, provided by Research Ireland<\/p>\n

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Session 4 (9:30-11:30)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9:30-10:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Alfred Archer (Tilburg), <\/em>Affective Justice: A Relational Egalitarian Approach<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10:30-11:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Sandra Timmerman (Twente)<\/em>: Algorithmic Emotional Injustice: Affective Harms in Human-ChatGPT Interactions<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:30-12:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 4 (continued)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aymeric Leroy (Sciences Po): <\/em>Simone de Beauvoir and the Affective Injustice of Ressentiment<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sibylle L\u00e9onard (Sciences Po): <\/em>Affective Paternalism and the Politics of Regret: Emotional Normativity in Women\u2019s Reproductive Lives<\/p>\n

15:00 \u2013 End of Affective Injustice panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Free to attend other workshops<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 5 (continued)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free to attend other workshops<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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17:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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