Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance The Banality of Good [Hardcover]

Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In addressing these questions, this book brings together novel theoretical and empirical perspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales.Roots, Rites, and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good: An Introduction; L.K.Cheliotis Values, Crisis, and Resistance: Prospects for Freedom Reconsidered;? S.Gangas Narcissism, Humanism, and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm's Work;? L.K.Cheliotis Thinking after Terror: An Interreligious Challenge;? R.Kearney Metanoia: Re-Thinking the Divine Economy of Love and Violence;? J.O'Neill Resistance as Transformation;? A.Mubi Brighenti Acting on Vulnerable Others: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse;? L.Chouliaraki Sites of Resistance: Death Row Homepages and the Politics of Compassion;? E.Tessler Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil;? N.Scheper-Hughes Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of 'Balkan' Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence against 'The West';? S.Xenakis Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)Making;? J.Tankebe 'Governmentality' and Governing Corrections: Do Senior Managers Resist?;? A.LieblingANDREA MUBI BRIGHENTI is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, ItalyLEONIDAS K. CHELIOTIS is Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UKLILIE CHOULIARAKI is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UKSPIROS GANGAS is Professor I of Sociology at Deree College in Athens, GreeceRICHARD KEARNEY holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, USAALISON LIEBLING is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge InstitlÓ,