Subjective, veiled, and non-public discourses, immersed in particular culture or community, namely discourse communities. They contain hate speech against other groups in a particular society to be able to reproduce the related communities which people generally hesitate to use due to the fact that there might be legal, moral or social sanctions, especially in democratic and stable countries and they are based on the circulation of knowledge gained through not reason but speculation, which makes it impossible to figure out if a sub-discourse is authentic or not as they are highly subjective due to the fact that they are based on cultural values. It is not argued that these discourses never become visible in this type of countries, but people who use them are generally regarded as unstable and they are criticized and marginalized by almost each section of the society, including the very cultural or ideological group the one using that speech.
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Context and Space as the Tools to Legitimize and Produce Violence: Broadening Hassan's Perspective on East-West Dichotomy
Ahmet Faruk Çeçen (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch016
Abstract
Hassan thought the reason of the never-ending clash between East and West is the difference between their varied time perception. Albeit accepting many of Hassan's claims, the author believes the difference between their time perception cannot be the sole reason of the conflict. Examining the conflict through power relations and seeing violence as a tool of it, the study aimed to show how structural violence helps sustaining global, national, local, and domestic economic, social, and cultural inequalities. As far as we know, the legal structures that sustained state-mandated overt discrimination have been dismantled in the West, meaning the equal treatment of all races and religions under the law. However, it is obvious that there are structural obstacles preventing the law from being practiced the way it is intended. Through the concepts ‘context' and ‘space', the researcher will try to explain how discriminative practices are sustained, produced, legitimized, which pave the way for the conflicts to go on (e.g., East and West).