Justice ignited
Subtitle: the dynamics of backfire
By: Brian Martin, with contributions from Truda Gray, Hannah Lendon, and Steve Wright.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780742540866
Subjects: Social justice; Retribution
Description: "Through numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire. Understanding backfire - both promoting and inhibiting it - is vitally important for activists and anyone else who wants to be effective in the face of injustice."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sharpeville; title: Dili; title: Dharasana; title: The beating of Rodney King; title: Target : whistleblowers; title: The dismissal of Ted Steele; title: Environmental disasters / Hannah Lendon and Brian Martin; title: The invasion of Iraq; title: Abu Ghraib / Truda Gray and Brian Martin; title: Countershock : challenging push-button torture / Brian Martin and Steve Wright; title: Terrorism as predictable backfire; title: Theory and backfire; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix : methods of inhibiting and amplifying outrage from injustice.