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Radical Conflict : Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Peace and Conflict StudiesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498521789
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Radical ConflictDDC classification:
  • 303.6
LOC classification:
  • HM1116 -- .R335 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Interpersonal, Communal, and Ethnopolitical Violations -- Chapter One: Suffering Symbolic Violence -- Chapter Two: Intractable Conflict in a Slowly-Evolving Environmental Disaster -- Chapter Three: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Incommensurability -- II: Polarizations for Pluralist Democracy -- Chapter Four: Muslim Brotherhood and the Militarized State -- Chapter Five: Radical Antagonists -- Chapter Six: Zimbabwe's Transition Struggle -- Chapter Seven: Entelechy, Eschatology, Blasphemy -- III: Global and Geopolitical Rearrangements -- Chapter Eight: Political Violence, Narratives of the Nation, and the New Global Rearrangements -- Chapter Nine: The Power of Modern Diasporas in Global Politics -- Chapter Ten: Agonistic Discourse(s) in the Sahara Conflict -- IV: Rhetoric(s) of Rights and Law(s) -- Chapter Eleven: Flexing Soft Power Locally and Globally -- Chapter Twelve: From Radical to Rational Frames -- Chapter Thirteen: Is There a Right to Die? -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Interpersonal, Communal, and Ethnopolitical Violations -- Chapter One: Suffering Symbolic Violence -- Chapter Two: Intractable Conflict in a Slowly-Evolving Environmental Disaster -- Chapter Three: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Incommensurability -- II: Polarizations for Pluralist Democracy -- Chapter Four: Muslim Brotherhood and the Militarized State -- Chapter Five: Radical Antagonists -- Chapter Six: Zimbabwe's Transition Struggle -- Chapter Seven: Entelechy, Eschatology, Blasphemy -- III: Global and Geopolitical Rearrangements -- Chapter Eight: Political Violence, Narratives of the Nation, and the New Global Rearrangements -- Chapter Nine: The Power of Modern Diasporas in Global Politics -- Chapter Ten: Agonistic Discourse(s) in the Sahara Conflict -- IV: Rhetoric(s) of Rights and Law(s) -- Chapter Eleven: Flexing Soft Power Locally and Globally -- Chapter Twelve: From Radical to Rational Frames -- Chapter Thirteen: Is There a Right to Die? -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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