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Politics of Violence - Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name (Hardcover, New)
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Politics of Violence - Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name (Hardcover, New)
Series: Interventions
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Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Zizek have
long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by
highlighting the implicit violence within political and economic
structures. But in an era of international terrorism and
counter-terrorism, should we not also reverse the question to ask
'what is political about violence?' Using interviews with
ex-militants from Italian leftist struggle of the 1970s and the
Cypriot anti-colonial militancy of the 1950s, Heath-Kelly explores
the political utility of violence. Studies of conflict and
international politics rarely address how killing and injuring
function to win wars or overturn regimes. But by rejecting
conceptions of violence as a means-to-an-end found in the works of
Clausewitz and Arendt, this book draws upon studies of pain to
explore the ways in which armed struggle produces new political
subjects and regimes, and discredits others, through experiences of
violence. Using Elaine Scarry's conception of pain as
'world-destroying' and Walter Benjamin's delineation of violence as
either lawmaking or law-preserving to frame ex-militant discussions
of participation in armed struggle, the book contributes a
pathbreaking empirical exploration of violence to international
politics literatures - moving the study of political violence away
from an understanding of violence as just a means-to-an-end.
Drawing out insights that have a far wider resonance and
significance for the analysis of the 'politicality' of political
violence, this work will be of interest to students and scholars in
areas such as international relations, security studies and
international relations theory.
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