Analyzing and subverting the frames of selective empathy
Analyser et subvertir les cadres de l’empathie sélective
Résumé
This 10th issue of Hybrid journals gathers articles from the conference “Selective Empathy: States, Media Silence, and Minorities,” held on the 17th and 18th of December 2021 at Campus Condorcet in Paris. This was the opportunity for encounters between researchers, artists, empathy professionals (psychologists and social workers), as well as victims of a certain selective empathy in the media – asylum seekers, exiled journalists for example – who work hard to have their voices and subjectivity heard in order to be the agents of the discourses around them. The publication in two volumes of the conference papers in the journal Hybrid aims to study selective empathy through a variety of approaches and objects from a pluri-disciplinary perspective.
The introduction of this issue goes back to the origin of the word “empathy,” before demonstrating how social frameworks of empathy lead to explain the visible paradox between empathy that should be universal and the assessment of its selectivity. Next, the introduction outlines the theoretical framework on which are built the articles of this issue. Through a disciplinary approach, this issue analyses both the political, psychological and literary mechanisms, and the different modalities of subversion of the selectivity of empathy, aiming at extending it to people and minority groups.
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