Dehumanization in Europe & In European Academic Knowledge Production

Abstract

Panel Chairs: Angéla Kóczé (Central European University) & Anya Topolski (Radboud University Netherlands) This panel aims to generate discussion about how dehumanization is related to racism, class, gender and sexuality in and by Europe. We are equally interested in how dehumanization manifests in particular times and periods in Europe, and in particular its reproduction in academic knowledge production (including feminist political science and sociology). We are particularly interested in how European knowledge production, which is most often done about racialized communities without those communities involved, or scholars from these communities, is complicit in the dehumanization of these communities. While the panel chairs have written about this with regard to antisemitism, islamophobia and anti-Roma racism/antigypsyism, we want to invite other scholars doing so, both on these communities and other racialized communities in Europe, to share their research. We aim to have a conversation around dehumanization as an ontological foundation of racism, racialization and begin a collective critical reflection and scholarly inquires on dehumanization and its manifestations in academe. We are also very interested in how such research connects and/or relates to the emerging multidisciplinary field of dehumanization (Kronfelder 2021) which describes dehumanization as manifested in various discourses, practices, hierarchical structures and relations that constantly reproduced and reinscribed in our societies. Respectively, certain kind of dehumanization increase with gender, racial and class inequalities and with the “respective meritocratic beliefs about deserving or not deserving status, power, inclusion, respect, help, and so on” (Ibid, 7).

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