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Enduring conflict : challenging the signature of peace and democracy /
"This unique text challenges the notion that absence of conflict is the foundation and norm of a stable political environment. Combining complexity theory and the notion of signature with case studies, it argues that political processes need to be understood within their social and cultural con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The argument of the book; The structure of the book; Chapter 1 Endurance and the signature of peace; The methodological implications of the signature; Enduring conflict; From the signature of peace to the endurance of conflict; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Democracy, complexity and conflict; Understanding complexity theory; Paradigm shifts in complex societies: Language and institutions; Complexity, democracy and the signature of peace; Conclusion: Complexity and conflict; Chapter 3 Reconciliation and conflict resolution.
- Understanding peacebuilding, reconciliation and conflict resolution: Beyond the 'liberal peace thesis'?Conflict and reconciliation; The temporal dimension; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Agonism and the politics of disagreement; Explaining agonism; Disagreement and the management of social conflict; The problem of complexity; Agonism and the international domain; The normative implications of agonism; Conclusion: Complex agonism?; Chapter 5 Rhetorics of peace and transition; Understanding political rhetoric and rhetorical political analysis; Rhetorics of reconciliation in South Africa and beyond.
- Alternative rhetorics? Discourses of reconciliation in Northern IrelandTowards rhetorics of conflict as a mode of transformation; Rhetoric, paradigms and contingency; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Narratives of conflict and the politics of memory; Rethinking the 'problem' of conflict?; Narratives of conflict; Towards a narrative approach to conflict and reconciliation; Discourses of enduring conflict: Agonism, rhetoric, narrative; Conclusion: Recontesting conflict; Chapter 7 Conflict and the politics of contingency; The contingency of language and the politics of complexity.
- Complexity and policy in conflict managementConflict and the politics of failure; Foucault's concept of error; Conclusion: Contingency, pragmatism and conflict transformation; Conclusion: Enduring conflict; Notes; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Bibliography; Index.