Des étrangers invisibles et impleurables ?
This article explores how political invisibilization of foreigners coexists with stereotypical hypervisibility, and sets out to theorize, with the help of Judith Butler’s philosophy, how the “national” acts as a normative framework articulated to ethno-racial schemes, which organizes the interpretat...
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| description | This article explores how political invisibilization of foreigners coexists with stereotypical hypervisibility, and sets out to theorize, with the help of Judith Butler’s philosophy, how the “national” acts as a normative framework articulated to ethno-racial schemes, which organizes the interpretation and evaluation of the perceived and differentially affects non-nationals. How does nationality enter the visible, the sensible, and function with other markings of difference? I review different conceptualizations of nationality as a form of visibility, including a discussion of the notion of « gaze » in visual and literary studies. Proposing to think of the national as a perspective that articulates heterogeneous categories of perception and promotes a privileged subjectivity, I use Butler’s theorization of the « frame of intelligibility ». The aim is to show how the national perspective, combined with processes of racialization, creates categories of invisible and ungrievable subjects, reinforcing the national symbolic order to the detriment of non-nationals. More generally, the article proposes a shift from a paradigm of social invisibility to one of differential affectivity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2b02345efec499f9f1cc45ef7c352e12025-08-20T03:15:29ZfraPresses universitaires de Paris NanterreTerrains/Théories2427-91882025-01-011910.4000/13c4zDes étrangers invisibles et impleurables ?Alison BouffetThis article explores how political invisibilization of foreigners coexists with stereotypical hypervisibility, and sets out to theorize, with the help of Judith Butler’s philosophy, how the “national” acts as a normative framework articulated to ethno-racial schemes, which organizes the interpretation and evaluation of the perceived and differentially affects non-nationals. How does nationality enter the visible, the sensible, and function with other markings of difference? I review different conceptualizations of nationality as a form of visibility, including a discussion of the notion of « gaze » in visual and literary studies. Proposing to think of the national as a perspective that articulates heterogeneous categories of perception and promotes a privileged subjectivity, I use Butler’s theorization of the « frame of intelligibility ». The aim is to show how the national perspective, combined with processes of racialization, creates categories of invisible and ungrievable subjects, reinforcing the national symbolic order to the detriment of non-nationals. More generally, the article proposes a shift from a paradigm of social invisibility to one of differential affectivity.https://journals.openedition.org/teth/5869nationalism; racism; invisibility; political affectivity; Judith Butler; migrations |
| spellingShingle | Alison Bouffet Des étrangers invisibles et impleurables ? Terrains/Théories nationalism; racism; invisibility; political affectivity; Judith Butler; migrations |
| title | Des étrangers invisibles et impleurables ? |
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| title_short | Des étrangers invisibles et impleurables ? |
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| topic | nationalism; racism; invisibility; political affectivity; Judith Butler; migrations |
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