The Other Side of Empathy
The Other Side of Empathy In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control,…
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The Other Side of Empathy
In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and victimization, arguing that these histories taint the whole concept of empathy. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool.
She also contends that empathy's mediation through digital technology cannot lead to more ethical actions, as technology only connects representations of people rather than the people themselves. Drawing on digital archives of photographs, memoirs, newspapers, interviews, and advertisements regarding nineteenth-century ethnographic museums and human zoos, Davis shows how empathetic responses erase culpabilities from those institutions that commodify difference. In empathy's place, Davis proposes mutual recognition as a way to see and experience others