Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance [electronic resource] : The Banality of Good /
Cheliotis, L.editor.
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 empirical perspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Figure; List of Contributors; Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good - An Introduction; 1 Values, Crisis and Resistance: Prospects for Freedom Reconsidered; 2 Narcissism, Humanism and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm's Work; 3 Thinking after Terror: An Interreligious Challenge; 4 Ecce Homo: The Political Theology of Good and Evil; 5 Resistance as Transformation; 6 Acting on Vulnerable Others: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse; 7 Sites of Resistance: Death Row Homepages and the Politics of Compassion
8 Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil9 Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of 'Balkanist' Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence Against 'the West'; 10 Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)making; 11 'Governmentality' and Governing Corrections: Do Senior Managers Resist?; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-273) and index.
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 empirical perspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales.
Political sociology.
Criminology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Ethics.
Political science.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political Sociology.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Social Theory.
Ethics.
Political Science.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.