The politics of conflict : transubstantiatory violence in Iraq / Monica Ingber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingber, Monica, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Iraq.

Political violence.

Social conflict--Iraq.

Social conflict.

Iraq--Politics and government.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Québec] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By looking at the problem of complicity in political violence from a social versus a legal perspective, The Politics of Conflict offers readers new insight into the ways in which violence operates. To do this, Monica Ingber applies Gilles Deleuze's analysis of the novellas of Leopold Sacher-Masoch, particularly Venus in Furs, to the politics of violence in Iraq. Specifically, Ingber develops the concept of transubstantiatory violence, to think through the relationship between social complicity and political violence. By assessing politics in Iraq through the lens of transubstantiatory violence, it becomes possible to see how social complicity validates what would be otherwise viewed as illegitimate forms of violence. This legitimization of violence is addressed through the problematization of the modern correlation of security, law, and the social contract by exploring three key areas of socio-politics: state-making and nation-building, political movements, and the popular militia. A serious study that makes important contributions to political science, political philosophy, and conflict studies, The Politics of Conflict demonstrates an alternative view of violence that is provocative in its ability to destabilize dominant understandings of regime violence and the counter-reactions of opposition movements.

Contents:

Problematizing chthonic security : Iraq as a site of investigation

Transubstantiatory violence

Hegemony and the state : towards an understanding of social complicity and political violence in Iraq

Chthonic constitutions : violence and Iraqi state-formation

States of tolerance : [ideal]ology, violence, and the Iraqi communist movement

Transubstantiatory violence and the militant/multitude problematic

Saddam in furs : social complicity and regime violence

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780773592056

0773592059

9780773592049

0773592040

OCLC:

913977508