Political Violence and the Imagination: Complicity, Memory and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780367515171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 146 str.

Mathias Thaler; Mihaela Mihai

Opis

Using a variety of theoretical reflections and empirically grounded case studies, this book examines how certain kinds of imagination – political, artistic, historical, philosophical – help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to various forms of political violence.

Spis treści

Political violence and the imagination: an introduction
1. Understanding complicity: memory, hope and the imagination
2. The arts of refusal: tragic unreconciliation, pariah humour, and haunting laughter
3. How America disguises its violence: colonialism, mass incarceration, and the need for resistant imagination
4. The subversive potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘defamiliarisation’: a case study in drawing on the imagination to denounce violence
5. Our wildest imagination: violence, narrative, and sympathetic identification
6. On representation(s): art, violence and the political imaginary of South Africa
7. The art and politics of imagination: remembering mass violence against women