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Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past
injustices, this title probes the various functions they fulfil
within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and
empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are
supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and
balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.
Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become
increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely
book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus
on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed
world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains:
political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both
uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary
debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political
theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating
fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes
theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the
Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by
N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating
viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different
from the one we live in right now.
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.
Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past
injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within
contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical
research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by
real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account
of states saying 'sorry'.
Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become
increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely
book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus
on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed
world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains:
political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both
uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary
debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political
theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating
fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes
theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the
Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by
N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating
viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different
from the one we live in right now.
Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence:
whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we
refer to "enhanced interrogation techniques" or to "torture,"
whether a person is called a "terrorist" or a "patriot." Do these
decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted
criteria, or are they determined by power structures and
partisanship? How is the language we use for violence entangled
with the fight against it? In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler
articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that
demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His
analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between
moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to
question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly
identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how
narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can
challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence.
Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the
imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be
revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering
the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming
Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates
about violence across a number of different disciplines from film
studies to history.
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