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Conflict is not abuse : overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair
- Author
- Schulman, Sarah, 1958- author.
- Title
- Conflict is not abuse : overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair / Sarah Schulman.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016.
- Description
- 299 pages ; 23 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290). Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
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- Introduction: A reparative manifesto
- Part one. The conflicted self and the abusive state. In love : conflict is not abuse ; Abandoning the personal : the state and the production of abuse ; The police and the politics of overstating harm ; HIV criminalization in Canada
- Part two. The impulse to escalate. On escalation ; Manic flight reaction : trigger + shunning ; Queer families, compensatory motherhood, and the political culture of escalation
- Part three. Supremacy/Trauma and the justification of injustice : the Israeli war on Gaza. Watching genocide unfold in real time ; The duty of repair.
- Summary
- "[This work] is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, revealing how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the 'other' to avoid facing themselves"--Front flap.
- Subject headings
- Conflict management. Social conflict. Social psychology. Difference (Psychology) Social conflict. Conflict management. Social psychology.
- ISBN
- 9781551526430 (paperback) 1551526433 (paperback)
Holdings
- Library
- Northwest Library (Gary)
- Call Number
- HM1126 .S34 2016
- Location
- Reserve Desk
- Floor
- First Floor
- Notes
- Requires Crimson card for in-library use. Obtained from library service desk.
- On Reserve At
- Northwest Library Reserves/2 hour loan
- Instructor
- Permanent Reserves (NORTHWEST)