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Emotions and Society, 2020
This article examines how the judge, defence counsel and Crown prosecution in R. v. T.S. mobilise... more This article examines how the judge, defence counsel and Crown prosecution in R. v. T.S. mobilised feeling and framing rules to assess the credibility of the complainants and accused. T.S. is a former Canadian Football League linebacker who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for failing to disclose to two women that he is HIV positive. Our analysis of the trial transcripts reveals how T.S.'s failure to disclose his HIV-positive status and his lack of an overtly emotional courtroom display led to his construction as callous towards the health of his sexual partners and subsequently to his characterisation as noncredible. Alternatively, the complainants had to authentically re-perform their original emotional reactions to learning that T.S. was HIV positive while testifying in court in order to be deemed credible. This signals the retroactive aspect of emotions in the context of a trial. Using Ahmed's notion of the 'stickiness of emotion', our second finding reveals that while the type and intensity of emotional courtroom displays structure interpretations of credibility in criminal trials, moral emotions such as indignation, fear and disgust stick to HIV. This implies a connection between perceptions of morality and credibility where people living with HIV/AIDS who fail to disclose are assessed as always-already unremorseful and noncredible thereby showcasing the continuity of HIV stigma. We show how determinations of credibility in HIV nondisclosure cases can problematically devalue the emotions that structure disclosure decision making in favour of prioritising the feelings of anger, shock, fear, frustration and disgust felt by complainants.
Crime, Media, Culture, 2019
More than 180 people in Canada have faced criminal charges related to HIV nondisclosure. Media co... more More than 180 people in Canada have faced criminal charges related to HIV nondisclosure. Media coverage is often sensational and commonly portrays people living with HIV as hypersexualized threats to the (inter)national body politic. This article analyzes mainstream news media coverage of four HIV nondisclosure cases to examine how the accused (two men, two women) are constructed as sexual predators, which we found occurs through two key discursive moves. First, by tying the narrative to stereotypical conceptualizations of hegemonic and toxic masculinity and pariah femininity to construct the individual as promiscuous, hypersexual and dangerous. Second, by crafting a narrative that evokes complex moral emotions; notably, these include the 'negative' emotions of anger, disgust and fear. Given that racialized men are disproportionately represented and demonized in media accounts, and the tense race relations in the current western political landscape, it is important to consider how emotions (rather than medical evidence of the risks of transmission, intent to infect or actual transmission) might contribute to shaping punitive mentalities and the harsh application of the law. By examining how race, gender, class and sexuality are mobilized to construct narratives of Black masculinity as inherently toxic and women's sexual freedom as exemplifying pariah femininity, and the ways in which the coverage evokes negative moral emotions, we contend that media coverage shores up moralized discourses about sexuality, masculinity and femininity and HIV/AIDS.
Health, Risk & Society, 2022
The discipline of public health is generally considered to advance a universal good and is often ... more The discipline of public health is generally considered to advance a universal good and is often discussed as a moral and ethical mission that aims to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health. However, the ardent promotion of public health discourses can also result in the hyper-policing and surveillance of marginalised communities, where the capital required to adhere to risk management is often systemically lacking or unobtainable. These consequences have become more visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people who are unable to follow public health guidelines to mitigate risky behaviours-for example, due to homelessness-are punished in increasingly carceral ways. In this article, we propose the notion of colonial affect as a conceptual tool to understand the ways in which public health deploys the affective language of risk to justify the carceral management of citizens. We mobilise examples of strategies invoked to manage unhoused people during the COVID-19 pandemic in two Canadian cities, Vancouver, British Columbia and Kingston, Ontario, noting how public health uses the affective language of risk to carceral ends. Such an interdisciplinary analysis of public health and carcerality helps reveal the palpable, yet slippery, characteristics of carceral spaces in our current epoch.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2023
This article explores emotional harm in the context of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure i... more This article explores emotional harm in the context of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in Canada. With the exception of Matthew Weait in the United Kingdom, few scholars have examined what harm means in cases of HIV nondisclosure. We conceptualize the harm that follows nondisclosure as an affective response to the "HIV positive Other" and argue that law creates a legal norm about what harm is and feels like in cases of HIV nondisclosure when there is no clear consensus about how harm should be defined. Mobilizing the sociology of emotions literature, we contend that criminalizing HIV nondisclosure engages affective, moral, and criminal censure to regulate the behaviours of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), thus reproducing HIV stigma and propagating emotional harm for PLWH. Canada's response to HIV nondisclosure should instead involve a transformative justice approach that avoids the harm of criminalization and imprisonment while recognizing the emotional harm experienced by complainants.
Book Chapters by Katarina Bogosavljevic
Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice, 2021
Reports by Katarina Bogosavljevic
for reviewing this document, and to all of those who participated in the We Can't Police Out Way ... more for reviewing this document, and to all of those who participated in the We Can't Police Out Way Out of the Pandemic dialogue series.
University of Ottawa Graduate Students Association
The Graduate Student's Association des étudiant.es diplômé.es (GSAÉD) has represented graduate st... more The Graduate Student's Association des étudiant.es diplômé.es (GSAÉD) has represented graduate students at the University of Ottawa since 1989. GSAÉD's mission is to represent, promote and defend the common interests of its members; promote and support the interest and activities of graduate student associations in all departments and faculties; bring together its members to discuss and take democratic positions on issues affecting them; and represent its members at the administrative level of decision-making. We also enrich our members' graduate experience with many social and cultural activities.
Online Symposia by Katarina Bogosavljevic
Unpublished Work by Katarina Bogosavljevic
MA Thesis
First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Jennifer M. Kilty for being an amazing mentor and s... more First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Jennifer M. Kilty for being an amazing mentor and supervisor! Without your guidance, reassurance and super-fast edits/comments on my thesis, I wouldn't have been able to finish. Thank you for listening to my rants, encouraging me to never compare myself to others, always making time for me, giving me opportunities I wouldn't have had anywhere else, opening my eyes to different theories, and perspectives, for challenging me… (the list can go on forever!). I am so excited to work with you for my Ph.D. and for all of the things we will accomplish together in those 4 years. Thank you to my evaluators Dr. Christine Bruckert and Dr. Michael Orsini for reviewing my thesis and for your very thoughtful comments! I also want to give a special shout out to Dr. Sheri Fabian at Simon Fraser University for introducing me to the wonderful world of qualitative research, inspiring me to pursue graduate studies and introducing me to Dr. Kilty. Next, I want to thank my family who had to listen to me almost every day as I tried to wrap my head around HIV nondisclosure, intersectionality and masculinities. Dad, thank you for showing me that working hard and sacrificing things in life isn't always bad; mom, thank you for always listening to me and being available for facetime when I needed you; Aleks, thanks for challenging me. Eva and Brittany, even though you guys are all the way in Vancouver you continued to support me and never gave up on our friendship! Your weekly calls kept my homesickness at bay. Renee and Audrey, thank you for being my side kicks on the CGSA! Without you two I don't think our events would have been as successful! Samantha, my fellow Vancouverite! Thank you for making me go on long walks, and getting me out of the house once in a while. Jarrod, thank you for the late-night talks and moral dilemma at The Loft. Dr. Maritza Felices-Luna, thank you for a great first year in your research seminar class and for forcing me to start early on the thesis; Dr. Michael Kempa, thank you for teaching me how to be a public scholar and guidance on how to write newspaper columns and features; Dr. David Joubert, thank you for a fun and eye-opening class on intervention.
Emotions and Society, 2020
This article examines how the judge, defence counsel and Crown prosecution in R. v. T.S. mobilise... more This article examines how the judge, defence counsel and Crown prosecution in R. v. T.S. mobilised feeling and framing rules to assess the credibility of the complainants and accused. T.S. is a former Canadian Football League linebacker who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for failing to disclose to two women that he is HIV positive. Our analysis of the trial transcripts reveals how T.S.'s failure to disclose his HIV-positive status and his lack of an overtly emotional courtroom display led to his construction as callous towards the health of his sexual partners and subsequently to his characterisation as noncredible. Alternatively, the complainants had to authentically re-perform their original emotional reactions to learning that T.S. was HIV positive while testifying in court in order to be deemed credible. This signals the retroactive aspect of emotions in the context of a trial. Using Ahmed's notion of the 'stickiness of emotion', our second finding reveals that while the type and intensity of emotional courtroom displays structure interpretations of credibility in criminal trials, moral emotions such as indignation, fear and disgust stick to HIV. This implies a connection between perceptions of morality and credibility where people living with HIV/AIDS who fail to disclose are assessed as always-already unremorseful and noncredible thereby showcasing the continuity of HIV stigma. We show how determinations of credibility in HIV nondisclosure cases can problematically devalue the emotions that structure disclosure decision making in favour of prioritising the feelings of anger, shock, fear, frustration and disgust felt by complainants.
Crime, Media, Culture, 2019
More than 180 people in Canada have faced criminal charges related to HIV nondisclosure. Media co... more More than 180 people in Canada have faced criminal charges related to HIV nondisclosure. Media coverage is often sensational and commonly portrays people living with HIV as hypersexualized threats to the (inter)national body politic. This article analyzes mainstream news media coverage of four HIV nondisclosure cases to examine how the accused (two men, two women) are constructed as sexual predators, which we found occurs through two key discursive moves. First, by tying the narrative to stereotypical conceptualizations of hegemonic and toxic masculinity and pariah femininity to construct the individual as promiscuous, hypersexual and dangerous. Second, by crafting a narrative that evokes complex moral emotions; notably, these include the 'negative' emotions of anger, disgust and fear. Given that racialized men are disproportionately represented and demonized in media accounts, and the tense race relations in the current western political landscape, it is important to consider how emotions (rather than medical evidence of the risks of transmission, intent to infect or actual transmission) might contribute to shaping punitive mentalities and the harsh application of the law. By examining how race, gender, class and sexuality are mobilized to construct narratives of Black masculinity as inherently toxic and women's sexual freedom as exemplifying pariah femininity, and the ways in which the coverage evokes negative moral emotions, we contend that media coverage shores up moralized discourses about sexuality, masculinity and femininity and HIV/AIDS.
Health, Risk & Society, 2022
The discipline of public health is generally considered to advance a universal good and is often ... more The discipline of public health is generally considered to advance a universal good and is often discussed as a moral and ethical mission that aims to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health. However, the ardent promotion of public health discourses can also result in the hyper-policing and surveillance of marginalised communities, where the capital required to adhere to risk management is often systemically lacking or unobtainable. These consequences have become more visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people who are unable to follow public health guidelines to mitigate risky behaviours-for example, due to homelessness-are punished in increasingly carceral ways. In this article, we propose the notion of colonial affect as a conceptual tool to understand the ways in which public health deploys the affective language of risk to justify the carceral management of citizens. We mobilise examples of strategies invoked to manage unhoused people during the COVID-19 pandemic in two Canadian cities, Vancouver, British Columbia and Kingston, Ontario, noting how public health uses the affective language of risk to carceral ends. Such an interdisciplinary analysis of public health and carcerality helps reveal the palpable, yet slippery, characteristics of carceral spaces in our current epoch.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2023
This article explores emotional harm in the context of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure i... more This article explores emotional harm in the context of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in Canada. With the exception of Matthew Weait in the United Kingdom, few scholars have examined what harm means in cases of HIV nondisclosure. We conceptualize the harm that follows nondisclosure as an affective response to the "HIV positive Other" and argue that law creates a legal norm about what harm is and feels like in cases of HIV nondisclosure when there is no clear consensus about how harm should be defined. Mobilizing the sociology of emotions literature, we contend that criminalizing HIV nondisclosure engages affective, moral, and criminal censure to regulate the behaviours of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), thus reproducing HIV stigma and propagating emotional harm for PLWH. Canada's response to HIV nondisclosure should instead involve a transformative justice approach that avoids the harm of criminalization and imprisonment while recognizing the emotional harm experienced by complainants.
Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice, 2021
for reviewing this document, and to all of those who participated in the We Can't Police Out Way ... more for reviewing this document, and to all of those who participated in the We Can't Police Out Way Out of the Pandemic dialogue series.
University of Ottawa Graduate Students Association
The Graduate Student's Association des étudiant.es diplômé.es (GSAÉD) has represented graduate st... more The Graduate Student's Association des étudiant.es diplômé.es (GSAÉD) has represented graduate students at the University of Ottawa since 1989. GSAÉD's mission is to represent, promote and defend the common interests of its members; promote and support the interest and activities of graduate student associations in all departments and faculties; bring together its members to discuss and take democratic positions on issues affecting them; and represent its members at the administrative level of decision-making. We also enrich our members' graduate experience with many social and cultural activities.
MA Thesis
First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Jennifer M. Kilty for being an amazing mentor and s... more First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Jennifer M. Kilty for being an amazing mentor and supervisor! Without your guidance, reassurance and super-fast edits/comments on my thesis, I wouldn't have been able to finish. Thank you for listening to my rants, encouraging me to never compare myself to others, always making time for me, giving me opportunities I wouldn't have had anywhere else, opening my eyes to different theories, and perspectives, for challenging me… (the list can go on forever!). I am so excited to work with you for my Ph.D. and for all of the things we will accomplish together in those 4 years. Thank you to my evaluators Dr. Christine Bruckert and Dr. Michael Orsini for reviewing my thesis and for your very thoughtful comments! I also want to give a special shout out to Dr. Sheri Fabian at Simon Fraser University for introducing me to the wonderful world of qualitative research, inspiring me to pursue graduate studies and introducing me to Dr. Kilty. Next, I want to thank my family who had to listen to me almost every day as I tried to wrap my head around HIV nondisclosure, intersectionality and masculinities. Dad, thank you for showing me that working hard and sacrificing things in life isn't always bad; mom, thank you for always listening to me and being available for facetime when I needed you; Aleks, thanks for challenging me. Eva and Brittany, even though you guys are all the way in Vancouver you continued to support me and never gave up on our friendship! Your weekly calls kept my homesickness at bay. Renee and Audrey, thank you for being my side kicks on the CGSA! Without you two I don't think our events would have been as successful! Samantha, my fellow Vancouverite! Thank you for making me go on long walks, and getting me out of the house once in a while. Jarrod, thank you for the late-night talks and moral dilemma at The Loft. Dr. Maritza Felices-Luna, thank you for a great first year in your research seminar class and for forcing me to start early on the thesis; Dr. Michael Kempa, thank you for teaching me how to be a public scholar and guidance on how to write newspaper columns and features; Dr. David Joubert, thank you for a fun and eye-opening class on intervention.