Res(s)ent(i)ment and Nonaffirmative Creativity
Hindu Minorities in Pakistan as Conceptual Personae
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jürgen Schaflechner (0000-0002-4430-2567, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-208 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-11720312 |
| OpenAlex | W4416286973 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
In recent years, the concepts of resentment and ressentiment have experienced a resurgence within journalistic and academic spheres. Events such as Brexit, the Trump presidency, and the rise of right-wing governments in Europe have reignited discourse on these and similar emotions, often as tools to interpret diverse forms of behavior. Both terms have largely been framed through Euro- and US-centric model cases. Whereas resentment tends to address issues arising predominantly within (Western) liberal contexts, Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment appears more applicable to many illiberal environments of the global South. Engaging with ressentiment, the author explores what unfolds when we dismantle the conceptual hierarchy between ethnography and philosophy, allowing empirical case studies from illiberal settings to confront the cultural history of ressentiment by generating new problematics. Drawing from his extensive work with marginalized Hindu communities in Pakistan, the author argues that survival, rather than spite or rancor, is the principal catalyst for opportunistic creative expressions of ressentiment. The author shifts the focus—both Nietzsche's and his later readers’—from the “priest's” role in cultivating rancor to exploring what it means to be creative within the context of cultural and political dependence on a dominant elite
Ethnography · Hierarchy · Hinduism · Politics · Resentment · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy
Philosophy after Friendship
Political Emotions
Model Cases
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
On the nobility of Nietzsche’s priests
The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology
Contentious Emotions
An Anthropology of Ethics
The Ontological Turn
Muslim Zion
Dramatizing the Political
The Politics of Resentment
The Dramatic Power of Events
Neither Here nor There
Identity Politics and Minorities in Pakistan
Minority Economy in Xinjiang—A Source of Uyghur Resentment
Resentment/Ressentiment
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
Western Hegemony' in the Social Sciences
Truth in Motion
The 2006 Anti-'Danish Cartoons' Riot in Lahore
Critique, risqué
Problems All the Way Down
Problem and Structure
The Anthropology of Populism
For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom
On Resentment andRessentiment
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
Tactics for Becoming Visible
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |