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Published on February 11, 2025– Updated on April 22, 2025
Hate speech and emotions: ideological and epistemological issues
Location: Grenoble, France
International meeting coordinated by Julien Longhi from AGORA research center.
By means of a critical perspective (Guedj et al. 2022), this conference aims to further question the link between hate speech and emotions by investigating its social and ideological reach, along with the articulation of the individual and collective dimensions of hatred. If we consider that it is not the affects themselves that circulate, but the objects to which they are attached (Ahmed 2014), what is the role of emotions in the circulation of hate speech and what are the consequences of this phenomenon? This conference also envisions questioning the emotional implications of using the label “hate speech”. What is the ideological aspect of this tag? What can its use lead to?
Contributions may fall into one or more of the following axes of work:
Axis 1. Emotions in discourse
Axis 2. Emotions, politics and ideologies
Axis 3. Epistemological and reflective dimension
By means of a critical perspective (Guedj et al. 2022), this conference aims to further question the link between hate speech and emotions by investigating its social and ideological reach, along with the articulation of the individual and collective dimensions of hatred. If we consider that it is not the affects themselves that circulate, but the objects to which they are attached (Ahmed 2014), what is the role of emotions in the circulation of hate speech and what are the consequences of this phenomenon? This conference also envisions questioning the emotional implications of using the label “hate speech”. What is the ideological aspect of this tag? What can its use lead to?
Contributions may fall into one or more of the following axes of work:
Axis 1. Emotions in discourse
Axis 2. Emotions, politics and ideologies
Axis 3. Epistemological and reflective dimension
