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Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

Bennett, Anna

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0761857974
ISBN13: 9780761857976
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Apr 13 2012
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Anna Bennett insightfully explores Michel Foucault's work on power and discourse in order to advance conceptual and contextual tools for understanding power dynamics. Through an examination of a range of extremist, terrorist, and counter-terrorist rhetoric, as well as various theories of power, Bennett analyzes the widespread problems associated with assuming that power is only repressive and competitive. This limited view reinforces -- often unwittingly -- divisive dynamics and stubborn polemics, which serve to continue conflict. By offering a comprehensive and constructive view of power struggles, The Power Paradox argues that power is a relational dynamic. Bennett identifies fascinating contradictions within discourses of power and relational dynamics, acknowledging the enduring quandary of power struggles: we are all implicated within them.

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