Radical conflict : essays on violence, intractability, and communication / edited by Andrew R. Smith ; foreword by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Andrew R., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xxix, 295 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Radical Conflict: Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication confronts 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. All chapters share an interest in exploring imaginatively and speculatively what can be done to attenuate cycles of violence in their many forms. This volume examines how recurrent narratives, mythologies, media(ted) constructions, and other discourse 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Interpersonal, Communal, and Ethnopolitical Violations 1

1 Suffering Symbolic Violence: On Ridicule, Condemnation, and the Digital Jury / Jamal Eddine Slimani Slimani, Jamal Eddine 3

2 Intractable Conflict in a Slowly-Evolving Environmental Disaster: Social Violence and Social Suffering in the Libby, MT Disaster / Andrea L. Meluch Meluch, Andrea L., Phillip R. Reed Reed, Phillip R., Rebecca J. W. Cline Cline, Rebecca J. W., Tanis Hernandez Hernandez, Tanis 19

3 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Incommensurability / Donald Ellis Ellis, Donald 41

II Polarizations for Pluralist Democracy 61

4 Muslim Brotherhood and the Militarized State: Radical Opposition, Violent Repression, and Democratic Opportunity / Aleksandra Nesic Nesic, Aleksandra 63

5 Radical Antagonists: Urban Discourses of Moroccan Youth Counterpublics / Hamdi Echkaou Echkaou, Hamdi 83

6 Zimbabwe's Transition Struggle: The Role of Media and Political Violence in Fueling Intractable Conflict / Cleophas Taurai Muneri Muneri, Cleophas Taurai 109

7 Entelechy, Eschatology, Blasphemy: A Burkean Study of Murder in Bangladesh / Leslie Reynard Reynard, Leslie 129

III Global and Geopolitical Rearrangements 157

8 Political Violence, Narratives of the Nation, and the New Global Rearrangements / Said Graiouid Graiouid, Said, Taieb Belghazi Belghazi, Taieb 159

9 The Power of Modern Diasporas in Global Politics: Case Study of the Circassian Diaspora in the United States / Marya Rozanova-Smith Rozanova-Smith, Marya, Anna Klyukanova Klyukanova, Anna 179

10 Agonistic Discourse(s) in the Sahara Conflict: The Right to Have Rights / Andrew R. Smith Smith, Andrew R., Fadoua Loudiy Loudiy, Fadoua, Kristen Thomas Thomas, Kristen 201

IV Rhetoric(s) of Rights and Law(s) 231

11 Flexing Soft Power Locally and Globally: The Kashmir Conflict in India's Mediated Tourism Discourses / Sudeshna Roy Roy, Sudeshna 233

12 From Radical to Rational Frames: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and Prospects for Common Values / Gregory Russell Russell, Gregory 251

13 Is There a Right to Die?: Assisted Suicide and the Rhetoric of Rights / Jason Hannan Hannan, Jason 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1498521770

9781498521772

OCLC:

938386292