Curious Disappearances: Affectability Imbalances and Process-Based Invisibility
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Author(s)
Dotson, Kristie
Gilbert, Marita
Date Issued
September 1, 2014
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.
Journal
Hypatia
Department
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Citation
Dotson, Kristie and Marita Gilbert. 2014. "Curious Disappearances: Affectability Imbalances and Process-Based Invisibility." Hypatia-a Journal of Feminist Philosophy 29, no. 4: 873-888.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
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Postprint
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DOI
10.1111/hypa.12110
ISSN
0887-5367
1527-2001
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Dotson, K. and Gilbert, M. (2014), Curious Disappearances: Affectability Imbalances and Process-Based Invisibility. Hypatia, 29: 873–888. doi: 10.1111/hypa.12110, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12110.”
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