Hawes, Leonard C.

A new philosophy of social conflict : mediating collective trauma and transitional justice / Leonard C. Hawes. - 1st ed. - xii, 210 p. ; 24 cm. - Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy .

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. Conflict Theory and Transitional Justice 2. Intuiting Attunement to Duration 3.Becoming-Conflict, Chaos andTrauma 4. Minor Communication, Regimes of Signs, and Conversing Machines 5. Desiring-Utterances and Eternal Return 6. Embodied Desire, Subjectifications and Subjectivations Bibliography Index.

"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.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.


Rwanda--History--Atrocities.--Civil War, 1994

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