Woods, K orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-6485 (2020) Refugees' Stories: Empathy, Agency, and Solidarity. Journal of Social Philosophy, 51 (4). pp. 507-525. ISSN 0047-2786
Abstract
Story-telling is a significant practice for refugees. Stories of persecution are a crucial component of the evidence on which claims for asylum are based. They are also deployed by those who seek to foster greater solidarity with refugees – journalists, activists, refugees themselves. But what kind of solidarity is involved in ‘solidarity with refugees’? I answer this with reference to two models: political and expressional solidarity, and draw out the understudied relationships between stories and empathy, and empathy and solidarity. While there is evident value in stories, I argue that storytelling as a practice of solidarity faces both a practical and a normative tension. Furthermore, to the extent that these have the potential to undermine the agency of refugees, they raise important issues for solidarity movements.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2019 12:26 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 11:21 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/josp.12307 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153835 |