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Progressive Violence - Theorizing the War on Terror (Hardcover)
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Progressive Violence - Theorizing the War on Terror (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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This book examines the role of collective violence in the
achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced
by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the
discipline's tendency to idealize society in an attempt to
legitimize the idea of progressive social change. Using the global
War on Terror as a focal point, the authors develop this argument
through the related issues of power, knowledge, and ethics,
explaining the War on Terror in terms of the Anglo-American
tradition of imperial power and domination. Exploring the victimage
rituals through which society is brought together in the ritual
domination and destruction of a constructed "villain," Progressive
Violence: Theorizing the War on Terror also considers the price of
the liberal moral values in terms of which the global war on terror
is frequently justified, and the volume of "progressive violence"
involved in advancing the cause of freedom. The authors use this
case to theorize the general role of vicarious victimage ritual in
the social genesis of political violence and sadism, and its
calculated use by politicians to achieve their imperial aims. As
such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory
with interests in terrorism, violence, and geopolitics.
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