Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic
University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Teaching Associate Professor
I am research associate at University of Virginia and a teaching associate lecturer in Minority Studies, University of Copenhagen. My current work focuses on the emotional dimensions of moral injury, physiological and biological detrimental effects of discrimination and the relationship between biases and aversive affect (discomfort, stress, anxieties).
Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation my postdoctoral project “Implicit bias: Don’t trust your gut feeling!” (Philosophy, Roskilde University 2017-2020) explored how we should disseminate knowledge on implicit biases and how we can account for and mitigate the discomfort and aversive reactions that arises from biases (“interaction discomfort”) and the conversations we have about them (“awareness discomfort”). Publications appear in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Global Discourse.
My PhD dissertation on perpetrator disgust, awarded by the University of Copenhagen (2016), explored the connection between aversive physiological reactions, emotions and morality. Publications on the subject appear in Metaphilosophy, Cambridge University Press and forthcoming in a monograph: Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings (under contract with Oxford University Press)
I have been a visiting fellow at the Philosophy departments at University of Sheffield, MIT (during Postdoc) and University of Chicago (during PhD), worked as Outreach Officer at the Holocaust and Genocide Department at the Danish Institute for International Studies, and as an intern for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation my postdoctoral project “Implicit bias: Don’t trust your gut feeling!” (Philosophy, Roskilde University 2017-2020) explored how we should disseminate knowledge on implicit biases and how we can account for and mitigate the discomfort and aversive reactions that arises from biases (“interaction discomfort”) and the conversations we have about them (“awareness discomfort”). Publications appear in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Global Discourse.
My PhD dissertation on perpetrator disgust, awarded by the University of Copenhagen (2016), explored the connection between aversive physiological reactions, emotions and morality. Publications on the subject appear in Metaphilosophy, Cambridge University Press and forthcoming in a monograph: Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings (under contract with Oxford University Press)
I have been a visiting fellow at the Philosophy departments at University of Sheffield, MIT (during Postdoc) and University of Chicago (during PhD), worked as Outreach Officer at the Holocaust and Genocide Department at the Danish Institute for International Studies, and as an intern for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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genocide. This article undertakes a philosophical analysis of the “Never Again!” refrain and questions whether this new imperative is as preventive as we assume. The analysis looks at how Serbian nationalism used (and misused) history and expressions as “Never again!”. This example shows us that the impulse of moral abhorrence in “Never again!” does not necessarily lead to preventing atrocity, but can be an incitement to initiate new ones (paper in Danish).
genocide. This article undertakes a philosophical analysis of the “Never Again!” refrain and questions whether this new imperative is as preventive as we assume. The analysis looks at how Serbian nationalism used (and misused) history and expressions as “Never again!”. This example shows us that the impulse of moral abhorrence in “Never again!” does not necessarily lead to preventing atrocity, but can be an incitement to initiate new ones (paper in Danish).
Drawing on a broad range of historical examples as well as the latest scholarship from the philosophical and scientific study of emotions, this book explores the relationship of cognition and emotion through the lens of perpetrator disgust. Considering a range of interpretations of this phenomenon, it becomes evident that gut feelings do not carry a straightforward and transparent intentionality in themselves, nor do they motivate any core, specific response; they are templates that can embody a broad range of values and morals. Using this core insight, the book proposes a contextual understanding of emotions, by which an agent’s environment shapes their available hermeneutic equipment—concepts, categories, names—that individuals rely on to make sense of their emotions and navigate the world.
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An interdisciplinary group of researchers will analyze antagonistic political emotions (e.g., anger, Ressentiment, or public shaming) and their disruptive role to this effect, especially in online contexts. But they will also discuss the prosocial and community-building functions of such affective phenomena as collective nostalgia or online grief communities.