Roots, rites and sites of resistance
Subtitle: the banality of good
By: edited by Leonidas K. Cheliotis.
Contributors: Cheliotis, Leonidas K., 1977-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230210394
Subjects: Good and evil; Government, Resistance to
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; L. K. Cheliotis; title: Value, Crisis, and Resistance: Prospects for Freedom Reconsidered; S. Gangas; title: Thinking after Terror: An Interreligious Challenge; R. Kearney; title: Metanoia: Re-Thinking the Divine Economy of Love and Violence; J. ONeill; title: The I Who Loved Me: Humanism, Narcissism and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromms Work; L. K. Cheliotis; title: Resistance as Transformation; A. Brighenti; title: Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil; N. Scheper-Hughes; title: Acting on the Other: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse; title: L. Chouliaraki; title: Sites of Resistance: Word, Image, and the Politics of Representation in Death-row Prisoner Homepages; title: E. Tessler; title: Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of Balkan Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence against The West; S. Xenakis; title: Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)Making; J. Tankebe; title: Do the Powerful Resist? Governmentality and Governing Corrections; A. Liebling; title: Conclusions; title: L.K. Cheliotis; title: Index.