How and why decolonial activists mobilize or challenge the victim status: The case of Belgium's Afro‐descendants

The aim of the present article was to investigate how and why Afro-descendant decolonial activists in Belgium morally typecast their group when discussing their struggle to challenge the status quo. Ten Afro-descendant activists from different associations or movements active in Brussels were interviewed, and the interviews were examined through a thematic content analysis using the following themes and sub-themes: moral typecasting (positive agent, positive patient, negative patient, and negative agent), the period of time (pre-colonial, colonial, and pre- sent times in Belgium), and perceive... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Lastrego, Simona
Grippa, Pauline
Licata, Laurent
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Schlagwörter: Psychologie sociale / Decolonial activism / Colonialism / Collective victimhood / Moral typecasting / Collective action / Collective memory / Social representations of colonialism
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28550255
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/361686