Exploring Complicity (eBook)

Concept, Cases and Critique

Afxentis Afxentiou, Robin Dunford, Michael Neu (Herausgeber)

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2016
242 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-063-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the concept of and cases of complicity in an interdisciplinary context. It in part covers cases of direct complicity, where an agent or set of agents facilitates an identifiable act of wrongdoing. The book also draws attention to the manner in which agents become complicit in the reproduction of wider practices of wrongdoing. It goes on to explore the notion of complicity through a series of cases emerging from a variety of academic disciplines and professional practice, including the complicity of politicians, medical practitioners, and the wider public in forms of state violence, protest movements and secret‐keeping.

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Questions of complicity emerge within a range of academic disciplines and everyday practices. Using a wide range of case studies, this book explores the concept of and cases of complicity in an interdisciplinary context. It expands orthodox understandings of the concept by including the notion of structural complicity, revealing seemingly inconsequential, everyday forms of complicity; examining different kinds and degrees of individual and collective complicity; and introducing complicity as a lens through which to analyse and critically reflect upon social structures and relations. It also explores complicity through a series of cases emerging from a variety of academic disciplines and professional practices. Its various chapters reflect on, amongst other things, the complicity of politicians, self-proclaimed feminists, health care workers, fictional characters, social movement activists and academic defenders of torture.

Autor

lt;span>Afxentis Afxentiou is a graduate student specialising in critical political thought at the University of Brighton.

Robin Dunford is a senior lecturer in globalisation and war at the University of Brighton.

Michael Neu is a senior lecturer in philosophy, politics and ethics at the University of Brighton.

Inhalt

1. Introducing Complicity, Afxentis Afxentiou, Robin Dunford and Michael Neu / Part I: Concepts / 2. Complicity and Responsibility, Thomas Docherty / 3. What is Complicity, and Who is Complicit in Democratic Societies?, Paul Reynolds / 4. 'Washed in the Blood': Unclean Hands and the Question of Complicity, Marika Rose / 5. Complicity: What is it, and how can it be avoided?, Pam Laidman / Part II: Cases / 6. Loyalty or Complicity?: The Moral Assessment of Silence in Jackie Kay's Trumpet, Cornelia Wächter / 7. Navigating Complicity in Contemporary Feminist Discourse, Giuliana Monteverde/ 8. Shades of White Complicity, The End Conscription Campaign and the Politics of White Liberal Ignorance in South Africa, Daniel Conway / 9. Intellectual Complicity in Torture, Bob Brecher and Michael Neu / 10. How Complicity is Understood in the Findings of UK Public Inquiries into Wrongdoing: The Hidden Role of Methods, Owen Thomas / 11. Grey Areas and Self-Licking Lollipops: Iraq War Detention Operations, Impunity and Complicity, Peter Finn / 12. To Look, to Comply, to Be Complicit: 21st Century Conflict, Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: ethics • International Relations • Moral Philosophy • Political Philosophy • political theory • Politics • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-063-3 / 1786600633
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-063-9 / 9781786600639