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Alfie Corteza Assignment #13

Alfie Corteza

Professor Bullock

Assignment #13

In Sara Ahmed’s article, “Affective Economies,” she explains that the people who have a hatred aren’t necessarily hating others due to a specific cause, preferably they have a significant love for something and do not want that thing to be affected and decline in quality. Also, her referral to the individual’s feelings in regards to a person, place or thing is not necessarily a start or end point, but instead it is a flow in a demographic of some social economy.
For anxiety, there could be a large body of people or things to make one fear for a specific group. An example would be in regards to the refugee crisis, and a politician’s use of words on the matter. The methods of particular terms, and words that convey a specific mindset when it comes to displaying an image. An example would be the former leader of the British Conservative club who used particularly anxious and worrying terms when it came to accepting asylum refugees into the country. Also, Sara also points out specific terms are supposedly used to differ between bogus, and genuine asylum seekers, however, how can one differentiate the two? She also compares the refugee example to an individual who I in prison for killing a 16-year-old burglar trying to burgle his home. Here they made the individual who is defending himself the criminal, and the burglar a victim rather than the other way around. Ahmed compares the asylum seekers to the burglar, and the murderer to the body of people, and the house as the countries’ values, and that the asylum seekers are trying to take it away from the rightful owners. Thus the wording can change the image of an individual of that is rightfully guilty as a victim, and the innocent as the criminal, such as the improper imprisonment of the one who was defending his home.