|
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle
|
Buy Now
Radical Conflict - Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,867
Discovery Miles 28 670
|
|
|
Radical Conflict - Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication (Hardcover)
Series: Peace and Conflict Studies
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Radical Conflict addresses conflict at interpersonal and communal,
legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical
levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some
intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters
address different kinds of violence(s)-physical and gratuitous,
structural and socio-economic, legal and symbolic, all with
significant ill effects and injustices that spiral in all
directions. All share an interest in exploring imaginatively and
speculatively what can be done to attenuate such cycles of
violence. The volume analyzes how recurrent narratives,
mythologies, media(ted) constructions and other discourse(s) of
liberal democratic and authoritarian states play a significant role
in exacerbating or thwarting violence, exposing, escalating,
legitimizing, rationalizing, propagating, but also possibly
mitigating violence in all of its forms. Each contributor provides
a critical interpretation of the status of the conflict under
inquiry, including: a teacher verbally abusing and ridiculing a
student then exposing it in social media; a community torn apart by
environmental disaster; the incommensurate but not incommensurable
conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; the Muslim Brotherhood
and the militarized state(s) of Egypt and Libya; urban discourses
in cyberspace among Moroccan and Maghreb youth that have become
counter-signifying publics against oppression of the state; the
role of media and violence in Zimbabwe's political struggle; the
impact of the Circassian diaspora in global politics especially in
the United States; India's soft power approach to the Kashmir
conflict as a way to capitalize on it through tourism; the
agonistic discourses that pervade the conflict over the Sahara and
deprive Sahrawi people of rights; and how the liberal state is
implicated in the gratuitous violence of ISIL. The volume also
offers a section on the rhetoric of exclusionary laws associated
with intractable conflicts of the abortion conflict, the right to
die controversy, and a Burkean perspective on violence in
Bangladesh. Contributors suggest what can be done conceptually and
politically to mitigate and end violations of those who are most
vulnerable, banished, forgotten, damaged, and often silenced.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
