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- Title
Curious Disappearances: Affectability Imbalances and Process-Based Invisibility.
- Authors
Dotson, Kristie; Gilbert, Marita
- Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the recent public scandal involving Nafissatou Diallo and Dominique Strauss-Kahn to offer an account of the role affectability imbalances play in process-based invisibility. Process-based invisibilities, in this paper, refer to predictable narrative gaps within public narratives that can be aptly described as disappearances. We demonstrate that compromised, complex social identities, maladjusted webs of reciprocity, and a failure to fully appreciate basic affectability in large part cause affectability imbalances. Ultimately, we claim that affectability imbalances and the three imbricated conditions that facilitate such imbalances-complex social identities, reciprocity, and basic affectability-are integral features of process-based invisibility.
- Subjects
DIALLO, Nafissatou; STRAUSS-Kahn, Dominique, 1949-; SCANDALS; GROUP identity; RECIPROCITY (Psychology); AFFECT (Psychology)
- Publication
Hypatia, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 4, p873
- ISSN
0887-5367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hypa.12110