Affective constructions of justice
Isis-families and the law in the Finnish public debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23030331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanna Mustasaari (0000-0003-1061-0868, University of Eastern Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1036-1065 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oñati Socio-legal Series (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2079-5971 • E-ISSN: 2079-5971 |
| Publisher | Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1159 |
| OpenAlex | W3106611256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article examines the political process and public debate in Finland concerning the Finnish women and children held captive in the refugee camp of Al-Hol in north-east Syria. The article studies the role of affect in the process of constructing justice in these debates. It argues that the debate demonstrates an affective process of bordering, in which a non-belonging and essentially non-Finnish identity was affectively constructed to the mothers, who were depicted as “converts” and “jihadists”. Emotions such as compassion were mobilised in the process with ambiguous outcomes. On the one hand, reference to compassion served the conservative agenda of attaching rights to worthiness, on the other hand reference to compassion towards the figure of the innocent child served to isolate the children from their mothers. In the legal context, the affectively constructed identities of the mothers as non-belonging were relevant to how the issue of rights and legal obligations of the state became perceived as something belonging to the realm of national law or international law.
Aesthetics · Compassion · Context (archaeology) · Economic Justice · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
The Women of Al-Hol
Discursive analysis of intersectional moral exclusions in online discussions on women to be repatriated to Finland from the Al-Hol camp
Take Them or Leave Them? Gendered Obstacles in Advocacy Work for the Repatriation of Is Affiliates
Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria
Doing Emotions History
Analysing Narrative Contexts
Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law
Carnal Resonance
The Navigation of Feeling
Feminist Security Studies
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Declaring, shepherding, managing
Race in the Shadow of Law
The politics of belonging intersectional contestations
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The racialization of Muslims in France and the United States
Race, ideology, and empire
Securitized Intimacies, Welfare State and the “Other” Family
Poststructural feminism in education
From welfare nationalism to welfare chauvinism
Nationalist Reframing of the F innish and S wedish Welfare States – The Nexus of Nationalism and Social Policy in Far‐right Populist Parties
Emotionology
The Affect Theory Reader
Populist Radical Right Parties in the Nordic Region
Parables for the Virtual
Scales of grievability
Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion
To Be 'Danish', Becoming 'Muslim
Monster, Terrorist, Fag
Situated Knowledges
Kin-Work in a Time of Jihad
Veils and wooden clogs don't go together
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |