9781551526430-1551526433-Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

ISBN-13: 9781551526430
ISBN-10: 1551526433
Author: Sarah Schulman
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781551526430
ISBN-10: 1551526433
Author: Sarah Schulman
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (ISBN-13: 9781551526430 and ISBN-10: 1551526433), written by authors Sarah Schulman, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Psychology & Interactions (Psychology & Counseling, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Social Psychology & Interactions, Psychology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Psychology & Interactions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.93.

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From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.

This important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal, racial, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice, exclusion, and punishment, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities, people with HIV, African Americans, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the "other" to achieve their goals.

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia, Empathy, After Delores, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.


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