title: Ideologies of moral exclusion: a critical discursive reframing of depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization.
abstract: This paper focuses on some of the issues that arise when one treats notions such as depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization as social practices. It emphasizes the importance of: (a) understanding depersonalizing, delegitimizing and dehumanizing constructions as embedded in descriptions of located spatial activities and moral standings in the world and (b) invoking and building a socio-moral order linked to notions of lesser humanity or non-humanity, (spatial) transgression and abjection. These concerns are illustrated by taking talk on Romanies as a case in point from interviews with Romanian middle-class professionals. It is argued that a focus on description rather than explanation might be more effective in understanding the dynamics of ideologies of moral exclusion.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of East London, UK. c.tileaga@uel.ac.uk
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tileagă
mesh_terms: D032981:Dehumanization; D003861:Depersonalization; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D011287:Prejudice; D012383:Romania