Hatred Is Not Stronger Than Bonds

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2023.670103

Jean-Philippe Belleau

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Abstract

One of the most disturbing phenomena during episodes of mass violence concerns individuals who hated a specific group and harmed some of its members while making exceptions for people they had a relationship with. A preexisting social tie, not moral consciousness, produces this aversion to harming a party to the relationship, even if rescuing vulnerable individuals contradicts personal beliefs, orders, or group loyalty. Hatred is stronger than bonds only when the latter are weak, fraught, or missing in the first place. I call this phenomenon relational exceptionalism. Bringing the anthropological literature on interpersonal relationships to bear on studies of mass violence, this article illustrates that to trigger relational exceptionalism, a relationship requires not reciprocity, trust, obligations, affinities, or nearness, but a degree of autonomy.

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仇恨并不比束缚更强大

在大规模暴力事件中，最令人不安的现象之一是，一些人憎恨某个特定群体，伤害其中的一些成员，同时对与他们有关系的人例外。一种预先存在的社会关系，而不是道德意识，产生了这种对伤害关系中的一方的厌恶，即使拯救脆弱的个体与个人信仰、秩序或群体忠诚相矛盾。只有当纽带软弱、不安或缺失时，仇恨才会比纽带更强大。我把这种现象称为关系例外论。将关于人际关系的人类学文献运用到大规模暴力研究中，这篇文章说明，要触发关系例外论，一种关系不需要互惠、信任、义务、亲和或亲近，而是一定程度的自治。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.