Geopolitics and humiliation: The 'sinking islands' of Tuvalu
Geopolitics and humiliation: The 'sinking islands' of Tuvalu
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地缘政治与羞辱：图瓦卢的“下沉岛屿”
DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102938
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Saddington L
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Saddington L
情绪在地缘政治中发挥着关键作用；空间表现形式吸引、创造并强化了政治参与者内部和外部的情绪反应。结合情感和地缘政治的批评文献，本文开始研究地缘政治话语和实践中羞辱的未被探索的方式。通过2019年8月第50届太平洋岛屿论坛在南太平洋的精英访谈和与会者观察，我们分析了图瓦卢关于海平面上升的民意陈述对图瓦卢外交官的影响。在这样做的过程中，我们认为，环礁在气候政治中的作用不仅是潜在的气候未来的先兆，也是羞辱、嘲笑和嘲笑的对象。此外，我们详细阐述了羞辱的两个组成部分。首先，这种羞辱通过(新殖民主义的)生产和包容他人创造了一种等级权力关系；其次，这种羞辱依赖于并破坏了现有的关系，是一种可以看到、感觉和听到的东西-它不仅对被羞辱的演员有情感，而且是针对更广泛的观众的。
Emotions play a key role within geopolitics; spatial representations draw upon, create, and reinforce emotional responses within and from political actors. Bringing together critical literature on emotion and geopolitics, this paper sets out to examine the underexplored ways in which humiliation features in geopolitical discourse and practice. Through elite interviews and participant observation in the South Pacific at the 50th Pacific Islands Forum in August 2019, we analyse the impact of popular representations of Tuvalu in relation to sea-level rise on Tuvaluan diplomats. In doing so, we argue that atolls figure within climate politics as not only harbingers of potential climate futures, but also as objects of humiliation, ridicule, and mockery. Further, we elaborate on two components of humiliation. Firstly, that humiliation creates a hierarchical power relationship through the (neo-colonial) production and subsumption of an Other; and secondly, that humiliation relies on and undermines existing relationships and is something that is seen, felt, and heard – it is not only emotive for the actor being humiliated but is directed towards and reaches a wider audience.