1st Edition
Political Violence and the Imagination Complicity, Memory and Resistance
Political violence and the imagination: an introduction
Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler
1. Understanding complicity: memory, hope and the imagination
Mihaela Mihai
2. The arts of refusal: tragic unreconciliation, pariah humour, and haunting laughter
Bronwyn Anne Leebaw
3. How America disguises its violence: colonialism, mass incarceration, and the need for resistant imagination
Shari Stone-Mediatore
4. The subversive potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘defamiliarisation’: a case study in drawing on the imagination to denounce violence
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
5. Our wildest imagination: violence, narrative, and sympathetic identification
Jade Schiff
6. On representation(s): art, violence and the political imaginary of South Africa
Eliza Garnsey
7. The art and politics of imagination: remembering mass violence against women
Maria Alina Asavei
Biography
Mathias Thaler is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in contemporary political theory. He is currently working on a project analysing the utopian dimensions in current debates around climate change.
Mihaela Mihai is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests cut across political and social theory, history and aesthetics. More precisely, she has written on political emotions, political judgment, the politics of memory, art and politics.
