Seu, Irene Bruna (2014) Denial and human rights violations. In: Denialism and Human Rights, 2015, The Maasticht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. (Unpublished)
Abstract
This presentation reports on a series of qualitative studies carried out to investigate ordinary people’s understanding and responses (including actions and inaction) to information about human rights violations. The presentation proposes a psychosocial model of public denial as a dynamic equilibrium which, influenced by Freud’s and Cohen’s conceptualisations of denial, identifies the key factors fostering denial. The model will be illustrated through excerpts from the studies’ participants. The second part of the presentation will introduce a psychodynamic model of factors fostering individual ‘connectedness’ with human rights and humanitarian issues (the ‘3M’ model). The talk will conclude with a reflection on the policy implications of the models presented.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote) |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE), Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2015 16:36 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11715 |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
Archive Staff Only (login required)
