[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference

[Gonul Pultar]

  Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference


  Arizona State University

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From: Nina Sabolik <Nina.Sabolik_at_asu.edu 
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Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference

“Multidisciplinary studies of stigma have revealed its three most 
important aspects: fear, stereotyping, and social control, which are its 
primary affective, cognitive, and behavioral components. These studies 
also assert that, alongside the usually restrictive effect undesired 
differences have on social realization and opportunities, the imposition 
of social control is decisive in stigmatization. Such an approach to 
stigma brings forth its complex relational framework and allows it to be 
understood as “not primarily a property of individuals as many have 
conceptualized it to be but a humanly constructed perception, constantly 
in flux and legitimizing our negative responses to human differences.”
- Maria Todorova “Imagining the Balkans”

This panel explores the critical factors in understanding stigma, both 
cross-culturally and intraculturally, as well as the psychological 
mechanisms of self-stigmatization and destigmatization. How does text 
(newspaper articles, travelogues, fictional work) reinforce or challenge 
the stereotypes associated with stigma?

Panel proposals should be no more than 500 words and submitted by 
November 1, 2007, to the Southwest Graduate English Symposium, held at 
Arizona State University, February 29-March 1, 2008. Paper abstracts 
should be no more
than 350 words and submitted by November 1, 2007. Please include home 
and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, 
professional affiliation, and AV requirements with your submission.

Please submit all proposals and any questions to asu2008symp_at_gmail.com,
attn: Nina.


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