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Political Violence and the Imagination - Complicity, Memory and Resistance (Hardcover)
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Political Violence and the Imagination - Complicity, Memory and Resistance (Hardcover)
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Using a variety of theoretical reflections and empirically grounded
case studies, this book examines how certain kinds of imagination -
political, artistic, historical, philosophical - help us tackle the
challenge of comprehending and responding to various forms of
political violence. Understanding political violence is a complex
task, which involves a variety of operations, from examining the
social macro-structures within which actors engage in violence, to
investigating the motives and drives of individual perpetrators.
This book focuses on the faculty of imagination and its role in
facilitating our normative and critical engagement with political
violence. It interrogates how the imagination can help us deal with
past as well as ongoing instances of political violence. Several
questions, which have thus far received too little attention from
political theorists, motivate this project: Can certain forms of
imagination - artistic, historical, philosophical - help us tackle
the challenge of comprehending and responding to unprecedented
forms of violence? What is the ethical and political value of
artworks depicting human rights violations in the aftermath of
conflicts? What about the use of thought experiments in justifying
policy measures with regard to violence? What forms of political
imagination can foster solidarity and catalyse political action?
This book opens up a forum for an inclusive and reflexive debate on
the role that the imagination can play in unpacking complex issues
of political violence. The chapters in this book were originally
published in a special issue of the journal, Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
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