Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians (2020)
Journal Article
Noor. (2020). Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12433

We theorized that competitive victimhood – the tendency to see one’s ingroup as having suffered more than the outgroup as a result of a prolong conflict– may function strategically as a psychological mechanism to justify violent actions against the o... Read More about Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians.

Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’ (2020)
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featherstone. (2020). Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’. Journal of Classical Sociology, 21(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X20915667

Given the recent non-human turn in sociology and the social sciences, the popularity of theories of entanglement, and contemporary concern with the concept of the anthropocene, it is easy to forget that classical sociology was always-already aware of... Read More about Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’.

Do we need rights in bioethics discourse? (2020)
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Sim. (2020). Do we need rights in bioethics discourse?. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 45(3), 312-331. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa004

Moral rights feature prominently, and are relied on substantially, in debates in bioethics. Conceptually, however, duties can perform the logical work of rights, but not vice versa, and reference to rights is therefore inessential. Normatively, right... Read More about Do we need rights in bioethics discourse?.

Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam (2020)
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Poole, E., De Quincey, E., & Giraud, E. (2020). Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam. New Media and Society, 23(6), 1415–1442. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820903319

This article sets out findings from a project focused on #stopIslam, a hashtag that gained prominence following the Brussels terror attack of 2016. We initially outline a big data analysis which shows how counter-narratives – criticizing #stopIslam –... Read More about Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam.