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Journal Article
Structural Fear and the Ways to Resist It
2022
Overview
The article approaches the concept of structural violence by elaborating on the idea of fear as an indicator of social or individual self-destruction. It argues that learning to read fear is an important skill for individuation and, therefore, a part of resistance to oppressive practices. Based on Tolstoy’s political thought, the article draws attention to honesty, gratefulness, love, trust, creative act and responsibility as essential conditions for developing sensibility to read fear and the social structures. Likewise, the article looks at several popular series and literary pieces in each other’s context as an existing intellectual or even social discourse with a special emphasis on the science fiction and fantasy genres in the context of spiritual anti-hierarchical thought. A distinction is made between organic fear –a natural emotion with a function of developing self-recognitio– and structural fear –a tool for manipulation and control over individuals employed by social institutions. The natural character of the emotion, in other words, the experience of fear common to every person, makes it a convenient mechanism of control over the Other. The article uses the findings to support the qualitative turn in the social studies and particularly the tendency towards the holistic or ecological approach to data selection and data interpretation.
El artículo despliega el concepto de violencia estructural mediante la idea del miedo como indicador de la auto-destrucción social o individual y plantea que aprender a leer el miedo hace parte de la resistencia a las prácticas opresivas. Con base en el pensamiento político de Tolstoi, el artículo llama la atención sobre la honestidad, el amor, la confianza, el acto creativo y la responsabilidad como condiciones esenciales para desarrollar la sensibilidad a la opresión. Asimismo, el artículo analiza varias series populares y piezas literarias en el contexto de cada una como parte del discurso intelectual y social existente. Se hace una distinción entre el miedo orgánico, una emoción natural con la función de desarrollar el auto-reconocimiento, y el miedo estructural, una herramienta de manipulación y control. El artículo pretende contribuir al giro cualitativo en los estudios sociales y, particularmente, la tendencia hacia el enfoque holístico o ecológico al conocimiento y a la investigación social.
