New Philosophy of Social Conflict
Subtitle: Mediating Collective Trauma and Transitional Justice
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781472524058
Subjects: Social conflict; Psychic trauma; Africa, history; Justice
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.