In the Wake of Violence : Image & Social Reform

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How acts of violence are rhetorically ""managed"" by social movements: In the Wake of Violence explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of violence committed by independent radicals involved in single-issue movements. Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp explores several specific inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social movements.
Radicalism.
Political violence.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
radicalism.
social movements.
terrorism.
Radicalisme.
Mouvements sociaux.
Violence politique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:How acts of violence are rhetorically ""managed"" by social movements: In the Wake of Violence explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of violence committed by independent radicals involved in single-issue movements. Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp explores several specific incidents in recent history-the arson of a Vail ski resort by environmentalists, the murder of Dr. John Britton by an antiabortion activist, and the torching of a University of California research laboratory by animal rights activists among them-to discover how the perpetrators of the violence and.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9780870139291

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