... Objectification dehumanization Latino Threat illegality imperial passion Leopoldo Zea Rosario Castellanos stereotype narratives narcissism Contemporary anti-immigrant discourse is full of generalizations about who immigrants are, what they do, and how they live. The historian and activist Aviva Chomsky...

... and considered human perfectibility as a this-worldly concern. human and sub-human sociality human attributes conscience human agency gender divide self-perfection dehumanization God and soul transformative agency Ambedkar makes the idea of the human foundational to his frame of politics, and this idea...

..., and the dehumanization objection. It argues that none of these objections, alone or combined, require a prohibition on preventive detention. It also summarizes the limitations of preventive detention. The chapter includes comments by some of the nation's top legal scholars from the field of criminal law, tackling...

... Hitler A Kranton R E Lemkin R Holocaust Jews Lemkin Raphael National Socialist German Workers’ Party NSDAP Nazis Aly G Brustein W Glaeser E L Anti Semitism Dehumanization Hatred Identity choice of Propaganda effect in genocide Einsatzgruppen GMA risk and prevention Incentives...

...) and mind reading (how people assess others’ mental states) through the lens of six different types of “minds.” Three minds illustrate forms of mind perception—invisible minds (those we cannot directly experience), dehumanized minds (those that seem weaker than our own), and anthropomorphized minds (those...

...Chapter six develops the discussion on Greek drama by looking at the ways in which Sophocles presents death in the Philoctetes as a process of gradual dehumanization, starting from social exclusion and leading towards absolute isolation not only from the world of the living...

... of the crisis—a vulnerable time of uncertainty, increasing death tolls, and community activism in response—state authorities explicitly dehumanized, infantilized, and abandoned gay men, creating a narrative of blame for supposedly undignified behavior. State authorities issued an ultimatum to queer men...

... up with the violence and inequality of enslavement, colonialism, and the annihilation of indigenous peoples. Indeed, a high-minded discourse about equality coincided with the dehumanization of most of the world's inhabitants. It is not only that those articulating new ideas of equality lacked...

...Dehumanization manifests itself in people’s everyday lives. Through a dehumanization lens, one can deconstruct and comprehend many aggressive behavioral trends that are not always overt expressions of bias but rather continuous and pervasive cultural and societal tendencies. However, dehumanization...

... on to address the many references to nonhuman animals in discussions of intellectual disability and moral status. It considers what is at stake in drawing such comparisons and whether such arguments contribute to the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. It concludes with an exploration...

... in Land of the Dead. The film raises familiar issues concerning individual dehumanization in late-capitalist society; it plays with the boundaries dividing fantasy from reality in such a manner that both realms appear to merge. However, there are no Gothic sequences where we can be certain...

... that they did with the original inhabitants of the Land of the Free, Diary of the Dead unveils a similar dehumanization operating within a supposedly diverse twenty-first-century media apparatus. Diary of the Dead is a devastating critique of a contemporary human condition...

... is caught in a web of complexities and that scientific knowledge and its applications to various fields of life have resulted in its mechanization—that is, generalization and conceptualization, which in turn means dehumanization of an individual being. Suzuki explains how Zen can help the modern man out...

...The chapter addresses France’s postwar response to torture as a site of intersection between World War II’s memory and the unfolding Algerian War. It puts Sartre’s writings on torture into dialogue with testimonies of dehumanization by Robert Antelme, Henri Alleg, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon...

... of the biopolitics of aging. Offering a meditation on the relationship between health and citizenship, this chapter charts a course that has led to the systematic social and political marginalization and dehumanization of the elderly in contemporary France. The heat wave represents a culmination of these processes...

... of representation dances dangerously with eugenics and leads to the dehumanization of the novels’ characters. Black Sirius Death Eaters Dumbledore Albus Harry Potter central themes Weasley Ron beauty bias Harry Potter books Dahl Roald Halttunen Karen Nazis and Slytherin Dursleys Longbottom Neville Moody...

...Oxford University Press Refugees and migrants are often victims of dehumanization and torture. At the beginning of the last refugee crisis, Serbia became part of the so-called ‘Balkan route’, which was used by hundreds of thousands of refugees. In this contribution we argue that (i) war conflicts...

...Having identified the moral compass of the dehumanization of groups as the predictive framework of social regret, this chapter applies that lens to identify today’s forms of subordination. Several current policies and practices are exposed as ripe candidates for future regret, each explored...

...Chapter 11 briefly examines the history of our dehumanization of populations abroad, most notably in World War II, when on one front we were fighting Nazi Germany, which oppressed and murdered Jews as subhuman, while on another front we were bombing Japanese cities and civilians, whom we had...

... marriage. Ultimately, the book argues, it is the dehumanization of human beings that allows for practices to occur that will later be marked as regrettable. And all of us have a stake in standing on the side of history that resists these ongoing dehumanizations....