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Radical Conflict : Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Peace and Conflict Studies
ISBN-10 1498521770
ISBN-13 9781498521772
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 5th, 2016
Print length 326 Pages
Weight 648 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 23.70 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification: Literary essays Peace studies & conflict resolution International relations Terrorism, armed struggle
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This book examines instances of radical conflict in order to provide critical analyses of media and mediation implicated in such conflicts, often for ill but sometimes for good. Chapters offer ways of thinking intended to attenuate spirals of violence and move radical conflicts toward new means of discourse.
Radical Conflict addresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical and gratuitous, structural and socio-economic, legal and symbolic, all with significant ill effects and injustices that spiral in all directions. All share an interest in exploring imaginatively and speculatively what can be done to attenuate such cycles of violence. The volume analyzes how recurrent narratives, mythologies, media(ted) constructions and other discourse(s) of liberal democratic and authoritarian states play a significant role in exacerbating or thwarting violence, exposing, escalating, legitimizing, rationalizing, propagating, but also possibly mitigating violence in all of its forms. Each contributor provides a critical interpretation of the status of the conflict under inquiry, including: a teacher verbally abusing and ridiculing a student then exposing it in social media; a community torn apart by environmental disaster; the incommensurate but not incommensurable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; the Muslim Brotherhood and the militarized state(s) of Egypt and Libya; urban discourses in cyberspace among Moroccan and Maghreb youth that have become counter-signifying publics against oppression of the state; the role of media and violence in Zimbabwe''s political struggle; the impact of the Circassian diaspora in global politics especially in the United States; India''s soft power approach to the Kashmir conflict as a way to capitalize on it through tourism; the agonistic discourses that pervade the conflict over the Sahara and deprive Sahrawi people of rights; and how the liberal state is implicated in the gratuitous violence of ISIL. The volume also offers a section on the rhetoric of exclusionary laws associated with intractable conflicts of the abortion conflict, the right to die controversy, and a Burkean perspective on violence in Bangladesh. Contributors suggest what can be done conceptually and politically to mitigate and end violations of those who are most vulnerable, banished, forgotten, damaged, and often silenced.

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