The Power Paradox
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The Power Paradox

A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

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eBook - ePub

The Power Paradox

A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

About this book

The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Anna Bennett insightfully explores Michel Foucault's work on power and discourse in order to advance conceptual and contextual tools for understanding power dynamics. Through an examination of a range of extremist, terrorist, and counter-terrorist rhetoric, as well as various theories of power, Bennett analyzes the widespread problems associated with assuming that power is only repressive and competitive. This limited view reinforces — often unwittingly — divisive dynamics and stubborn polemics, which serve to continue conflict. By offering a comprehensive and constructive view of power struggles, The Power Paradox argues that power is a relational dynamic. Bennett identifies fascinating contradictions within discourses of power and relational dynamics, acknowledging the enduring quandary of power struggles: we are all implicated within them.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The Theory of Power
  5. Chapter 1: Power and Resistance
  6. Chapter 2: Foucault’s Legacy
  7. Chapter 3: The Notion of Power
  8. Chapter 4: Re-cognising Power
  9. Part II: Politics, Power and Extremism
  10. Chapter 5: The American Militias
  11. Chapter 6: Waco
  12. Chapter 7: Hansonism
  13. Chapter 8: The Unabomber
  14. Chapter 9: Terrorism and the War Against It
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography