A New Philosophy of Social Conflict

Mediating Collective Trauma and Transitional Justice

Leonard C Hawes author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:23rd Apr '15

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Provides a new communication philosophy of social conflict by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the Rwandan post-genocide transitional justice experiment of the Gacaca courts.

A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontological dilemmas in life-affirming ways. Hawes draws on Deleuze-Guattarian thinking to create new concepts that enable us to think more productively and to live more ethically in a world increasingly characterized by sociocultural trauma and conflict, and to imagine alternative ways of resolving and reconciling trauma and conflict.

Combining an astute reading of Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism with twenty-first century problems of transnational justice and intensifying zones of global violence, A New Philosophy of Social Conflict addresses some of the most important questions of our time. This book provides a new political philosophy and a new way of think about problems of trauma and justice at a scale beyond the conventional social frameworks of the individual or the polity. This work will be of interest to anyone working through the broader implications of Deleuze and Guatarri’s corpus, and to theorists of justice, rights and globalism in the new millennium. * Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA *

ISBN: 9781472524058

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 479g

224 pages