Michael Blain, Angeline Kearns-Blain

Progressive Violence (eBook, PDF)

Theorizing the War on Terror

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351018098
• Artikelnr.: 56838379

Autorenporträt

Michael Blain is Professor of Sociology at Boise State University, USA. He is the author of The Sociology Terrorism and Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror.



Angeline Kearns-Blain was previously Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Boise State University, USA. She is the author of Stealing Sunlight: Growing up in Irishtown and I used to be Irish: Leaving Ireland, Becoming American.