A new philosophy of social conflict : mediating collective trauma and transitional justice /
Leonard C. Hawes.
- xii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
- Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy .
- Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Becoming conflict, chaos and trauma -- Rethinking social conflict theory -- Intuiting attunement to conflict duration -- Minor communication, regimes of signs and conversing machines -- Order-words, truth-procedures and desiring-utterances.
"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"--
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Social conflict--Philosophy Transitional justice. Psychic trauma--Social aspects Transitional justice--Rwanda Psychic trauma--Social aspects--Rwanda Gacaca justice system