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Silences that Kill? Hate, Fear and their Silences

Based on a political discourse in Croatia (which produces fear by means of explicit and implicit speech of exclusion and often also hate speech) and the research of personal narratives of fear and anxiety of marginalized groups, this paper aims at providing answers to three basic research questions. Firstly, how is hate narratively shaped, in public discourse and personal narratives? Secondly, how the language of hate affects those who are designated as objects of hate? Thirdly, can and to what degree the subject of anxiety/fear (i.e. the explicit object of hate) narrate their experience and emotional response to hate? The author is interested in the places in which hate (which is itself marked by silence) generates fear and silence, the places in which hate erodes the subject’s need for intersubjectivity and leads to a deep sense of isolation and being silent, but sometimes also leads to articulated resistance.

language of hate, hate speech, fear, silence, empathy, gossips, personal narrative, conspiracy theory, affective atmosphere, affective politics

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