Hate, Politics, Law

Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-046554-4
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies. Whether expressed in speech, acted out in criminal conduct, or seen as the fuel of terror and extremism, hate is persistently considered a vice, an evil, and a threat to the modern liberal democracy. But what exactly is at stake when societies oppose hate?

In Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate, Thomas Brudholm and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen have gathered a group of distinguished scholars who offer a critical exploration and assessment of the basic assumptions, ideals, and agendas behind the modern fight against hate. They explore these issues and provide a range of explanatory and normative perspectives on the awkward relationship between hate and liberal democracy, as expressed, for example, through anti-hate speech and anti-hate crime initiatives. The volume further examines the presuppositions and ideological roots of fighting hate, as well as its blind spots and limits. It also includes discussions on the definition and meaning of hate, the longer and broader history of the concept of hate, and when and why fighting hatred became politically salient. While most research on hate crime is written and published in order to prevent and combat hate, Hate, Politics, Law takes a much-needed theoretical, historical, and exploratory approach to hatred.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brudholm, Thomas

Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction, Thomas Brudholm and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

- Part I: Historicizing Hatred

- 1. From Race to Hate: A Historical Perspective, Erik Bleich

- 2. Hate and the State in Ancient Greece, David Konstan

- Part II: Conceptualizing Hatred

- 3. Dwelling on Hatred, Thomas Brudholm

- 4. Problematizing Hatred in Democratic States, Niza Yanay

- 5. Towards a Legal Concept of Hatred: Democracy, Ontology, and the Limits of Deconstruction, Eric Heinze

- Part III: Responses to Hatred

- 6. Criminalizing Hate?, Antony R. Duff and Sandra E. Marshall

- 7. Readdressing Hate Crime: Synthesizing Law, Punishment, and Restorative Justice, Mark A. Walters

- 8. Tolerance: An Appropriate Answer to Hate?, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

- 9. From Hate to Political Solidarity: The Art of Responsibility, Mihaela Mihai

- Part IV: Democratic Hatreds?

- 10. Democratic Hatreds: The Making of “the hating enemy” in Liberal Democracy, Mikkel Thorup

- 11. When the State Hates, Kathryn Abrams

- Epilogue

- Concluding Thoughts: The Legality and Politics of Hatred, Robert Post

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Brudholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Resentment's Virtue and co-editor of The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity and Emotions and Mass Atrocity.

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and Center for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen.