Anna Bennett

Power Paradox

A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

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Produktbeschreibung

The Power Paradox reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Bennett identifies fascinating contradictions within discourses of power and relational dynamics, acknowledging the enduring quandary of power struggles: we are all implicated within them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780761857969
• ISBN-10: 0761857966
• Artikelnr.: 34563506

Autorenporträt

Anna Bennett, Ph.D., is an academic student advisor and teaches foundational sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Theory of Power
1. Power and Resistance
2. Foucault's Legacy
I. His Work
II. Developments & Inconsistencies
3. The Notion of Power
4. Re-cognising Power
Part II: Politics, Power and Extremism
5. The American Militias
6. Waco
7. Hansonism
8. The Unabomber
9. Terrorism and the War Against It
Conclusion: Power as Generative: The Ongoing Work of Insight and Reflection
Bibliography
Index