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Progressive Violence - Theorizing the War on Terror (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,447
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Progressive Violence - Theorizing the War on Terror (Hardcover): Michael Blain, Angeline Kearns Blain

Progressive Violence - Theorizing the War on Terror (Hardcover)

Michael Blain, Angeline Kearns Blain

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Release date: June 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Michael Blain • Angeline Kearns Blain
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-49772-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General
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LSN: 1-138-49772-X
Barcode: 9781138497726

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