Complicating Questions for the Two-Version Exercise

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Authors: Victoria Mummelthei
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Abstract

What If Version 2 Is More Violent? You removed the category and described only "concrete details." But what did you describe? Physical appearance? Skin color? Clothing? Accent? Question: Is describing someone as "a person with dark skin wearing a hijab speaking Arabic" less othering than saying "a Middle Eastern student"? Or is it actually MORE violent because now you're forcing hyper-visibility of physical difference? When you removed the category, did you just replace one kind of marking w...

Fields of Study & Subjects

Cultural Identity and Representation Media Discourse and Social Analysis Disability Rights and Representation

Publication details

Journal / source
Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
Publication date
10 February 2026
Language
EN