‘We haven’t even buried the dead yet’: Ethics of discursive contestation in a crisis situation

摘要: Disasters are often described as exceptional moments that demand global solidarity. A ‘state of humanitarian exception’ emerges citizens foreground norms compassion and cooperation while contestatory discourse – the argumentative, blame-seeking fault-finding forms speech stigmatized inappropriate interventions in a society seeking to recover from distressful crisis situation. This article critically unpacks these representations post-disaster situations empirically normatively. By analysing discussions public sphere over first 100 days after Typhoon Haiyan battered Central Philippines, examines moral force behind ‘discourse compassion’ its ‘ethical boundary work’ places contestation’ outside scope acceptable conduct. It proposes compassion’s ethical work is only democratically when one takes short view Drawing on deliberative democracy th...