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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics - The Scars of Violence (Hardcover, New)
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Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics - The Scars of Violence (Hardcover, New)
Series: Interventions
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In fields such as politics, international relations, public
administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing
interest in the topic of 'accountability'. In this innovative new
work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form
of accountability in global politics has been present for some
time, and that, furthermore, this form's continued presence remains
one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable,
possibilities for resistance in the near future. This book argues
that the physical and visually shocking outcomes of violence found
on the bodies of humans, as well as the buildings and landscapes
which surround us, specifically the scars they leave behind, remain
one of our most compelling forms of accountability. Steele develops
the theoretical argument on scars and exteriority utilizing
insights from several philosophical and theoretical resources
including Hannah Arendt, Erving Goffmann, and Richard Rorty. The
work examines scars and their effects through several
illustrations, including the accounts of Emmett Till, Iranian
protestor Neda Agha-Soltan, the Syrian boy Hamza al-Khateeb, the
massacre in WWII and then memorializing throughout the 20th century
of the Lidice children in the modern-day Czech Republic, the
particular architecturally destructive outcomes of the 2008-9 Gaza
War, the loss of the Twin Towers in New York, as well as a variety
of violent scars found on the landscapes of Europe and Southeast
Asia. Emphasizing the importance of the space and 'time' of scars,
the book illustrates how an alternative form of accountability in
the scar can be a useful, disruptive, spontaneous, but also
creative practice to challenge the discourses of violence which
remain with us today.
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