mediating collective trauma and transitional justice /
First Statement of Responsibility
Leonard C. Hawes.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 210 pages ;
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24 cm.
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Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. Conflict Theory and Transitional Justice 2. Intuiting Attunement to Duration 3.Becoming-Conflict, Chaos andTrauma 4. Minor Communication, Regimes of Signs, and Conversing Machines 5. Desiring-Utterances and Eternal Return 6. Embodied Desire, Subjectifications and Subjectivations Bibliography Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontological dilemmas in life-affirming ways. Hawes draws on Deleuze-Guattarian thinking to create new concepts that enable us to think more productively and to live more ethically in a world increasingly characterized by sociocultural trauma and conflict, and to imagine alternative ways of resolving and reconciling trauma and conflict"--