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Progressive Violence: Theorizing the War on Terror

Progressive Violence: Theorizing the War on Terror

Blain, Michael
Kearns-Blain, Angeline

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

General Sociology

ISBN10: 113849772X
ISBN13: 9781138497726
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 14 2018
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence as a result of its tendency to idealise society in order to legitimise the idea of progressive social change. Using the global War on Terror as a focal point, it discusses the related issues of power, knowledge, and ethics, explaining the War on Terror in terms of the Anglo-American tradition of imperial power and domination. Exploring the solidarity produced by the ritual domination and destruction of a 'villain', the book also considers the price of the 'progressive violence' involved in advancing the moral cause of freedom.

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