Conflict is not abuse : overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair / Sarah Schulman.
2016
HM1126
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Title
Conflict is not abuse : overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair / Sarah Schulman.
ISBN
9781551526447 (electronic book)
1551526441 (electronic book)
9781551526430
1551526433
1551526441 (electronic book)
9781551526430
1551526433
Published
Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HM1126
System Control No.
(OCoLC)952801325
Summary
"From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference. This important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal, racial, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice, exclusion, and punishment, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities, people with HIV, African Americans, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the 'other' to achieve their goals. Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia, Empathy, After Delores, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: A reparative manifesto
Part One. The conflicted self and the abusive state. In love : conflict is not abuse ; Abandoning the personal : the state and the production of abuse ; The police and the politics of overstating harm ; HIV criminalization in Canada
Part Two. The impulse to escalate. On escalation ; Manic flight reaction : trigger + shunning ; Queer families, compensatory motherhood, and the political culture of escalation
Part Three. Supremacy/Trauma and the justification of injustice : the Israeli war on Gaza. Watching genocide unfold in real time ; The duty of repair.
Part One. The conflicted self and the abusive state. In love : conflict is not abuse ; Abandoning the personal : the state and the production of abuse ; The police and the politics of overstating harm ; HIV criminalization in Canada
Part Two. The impulse to escalate. On escalation ; Manic flight reaction : trigger + shunning ; Queer families, compensatory motherhood, and the political culture of escalation
Part Three. Supremacy/Trauma and the justification of injustice : the Israeli war on Gaza. Watching genocide unfold in real time ; The duty of repair.
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