Smith Radical Conflict

Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4985-2178-9
Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Peace and Conflict Studies

Radical Conflictaddresses 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed

Belghazi, Taieb

Cline, Rebecca J. Welch

Echkaou, Hamdi

Ellis, Donald G.

Graiouid, Said

Hannan, Jason

Hernandez, Tanis

Klyukanova, Anna

Loudiy, Fadoua

Meluch, Andrea L.

Muneri, Cleophas Taurai

Nesic, Aleksandra

Reed, Phillip R.

Reynard, Leslie

Roy, Sudeshna

Rozanova-Smith, Marya

Russell, Greg

Slimani, Jamal Eddine

Smith, Andrew R.

Thomas, Kristen A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1Suffering Symbolic Violence: On Ridicule, Condemnation, and the Digital Jury Jamal Eddine Slimani Chapter 2 Intractable Conflict in a Slowly Evolving Environmental Disaster: Social Violence and Social Suffering in Libby, MT Andrea Meluch, Philip Reed, Rebecca Cline and Tanis Hernandez Chapter 3 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Incommensurability Donald Ellis Chapter 4 Muslim Brotherhood and the Militarized State: Radical Opposition, Violent Repression and Democratic Opportunity Alekandra Nesic Chapter 5 Radical Antagonists: Urban Discourses of Moroccan Youth Counterpublics Hamdi Echkaou Chapter 6 Zimbabwe’s Transition Struggle: The Role of Media and Political Violence in Fueling Intractable Conflict Cleophas T. Muneri Chapter 7 Entelechy, Eschatology, Blasphemy: A Burkean Study of Murder in Bangladesh Leslie Reynard Chapter 8Political Violence, Narratives of the Nations, and the New Global Rearrangements Said Graiouid and Taieb Belghazi Chapter 9 The Power of Modern Diasporas in Global Politics: Case Study of the Circassian Diaspora in the US Marya Rozanova-Smith & Anna Klyukanova Chapter 10 Agonistic Discourse(s) in the Sahara Conflict: the Right to have Rights Andrew R. Smith, Fadoua Loudiy and Kristen Thomas Chapter 11 Flexing Soft Power Locally and Globally: The Kashmir Conflict in India's Mediated Tourism Discourse Sudeshna Roy Chapter 12From Radical to Rational Frames: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice and Prospects for Common Values Gregory Russell Chapter 13Is There a Right to Die? Assisted Suicide and the Rhetoric of Rights Jason Hannan

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew R. Smith is professor and graduate program head in the Department of Communication Studies at Edinboro University.