Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In addressing these questions, this book brings together novel theoretical and empiricalperspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales. INDICE: Roots, Rites, and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good: An Introduction; L.K.Cheliotis - Values, Crisis, and Resistance: Prospects for Freedom Reconsidered; S.Gangas - Narcissism, Humanism, and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm's Work; L.K.Cheliotis - Thinking after Terror: An Interreligious Challenge; R.Kearney - Metanoia: Re-Thinking the Divine Economy of Loveand Violence; J.O'Neill - Resistance as Transformation; A.Mubi Brighenti - Acting on Vulnerable Others: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse; L.Chouliaraki - Sites of Resistance: Death Row Homepages and the Politics of Compassion; E.Tessler - Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil; N.Scheper-Hughes - Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of 'Balkan' Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence against 'The West'; S.Xenakis - Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)Making; J.Tankebe - 'Governmentality' and Governing Corrections: Do Senior Managers Resist?; A.Liebling -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21039-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés