1st Edition

Violence A Reappraisal

Edited By Kevin Duong Copyright 2023
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? From reactionary movements globally to the everyday violence that makes the present moment so cruel, understanding political violence remains a difficult, multidimensional problem. This edited volume brings together... Read more

Introduction

Kevin Duong

1. Violence and Vietnamese Anticolonialism

Kevin D. Pham

2. Revolutionary Self-Defense as a Rival Ethics of Nonviolence: Rojava and Kurdish Liberation

Pınar Kemerli

3. George Jackson’s Perfect Disorder

Nolan Bennett

4. Violence and Resistance to the State: Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence

Eric Brandom

5. A World without Men: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Uses of Violence

Rose A. Owen

6. Policing Potential Violence

Abigail Cary Moore

7. Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence

Kellan Anfinson

8. Silence Is Violence, and So Is Speech

Matt Shafer

Biography

Kevin Duong is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, USA. He teaches political theory and intellectual history and is the author of The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France. Much of his research focuses on how the revolutionary agency of "the people" is expressed, but his interests extend beyond democratic theory to fields such as queer theory, political violence, the history of the human sciences, colonialism and empire, and the history of the left.