ISBN:
9780367515218
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 145 Seiten
DDC:
303.601
Keywords:
Colonialism & imperialism
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Comparative politics
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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Feminism & feminist theory
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Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
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Gender Studies: Gruppen
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Gender studies, gender groups
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Human rights
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Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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Peace studies & conflict resolution
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Social & political philosophy
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Soziale und politische Philosophie
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Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Political violence and the imagination: an introduction1. Understanding complicity: memory, hope and the imagination2. The arts of refusal: tragic unreconciliation, pariah humour, and haunting laughter3. How America disguises its violence: colonialism, mass incarceration, and the need for resistant imagination4. The subversive potential of Leo Tolstoy s defamiliarisation : a case study in drawing on the imagination to denounce violence5. Our wildest imagination: violence, narrative, and sympathetic identification6. On representation(s): art, violence and the political imaginary of South Africa7. The art and politics of imagination: remembering mass violence against women
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