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Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance

The Banality of Good

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  1. Leonidas K. Cheliotis

    1. Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good — An Introduction

    • Leonidas K. Cheliotis
    Pages 1-11

  3. Values, Crisis and Resistance: Prospects for Freedom Reconsidered

    • Spiros Gangas
    Pages 12-35

  4. Narcissism, Humanism and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm’s Work

    • Leonidas K. Cheliotis
    Pages 36-58

  5. Thinking after Terror: An Interreligious Challenge

    • Richard Kearney
    Pages 59-79

  6. Ecce Homo: The Political Theology of Good and Evil

    • John O’Neill
    Pages 80-94

  7. Resistance as Transformation

    • Andrea Mubi Brighenti
    Pages 95-107

  8. Acting on Vulnerable Others: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse

    • Lilie Chouliaraki
    Pages 108-124

  9. Sites of Resistance: Death Row Homepages and the Politics of Compassion

    • Ezra Tessler
    Pages 125-150

  10. Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil

    • Nancy Scheper-Hughes
    Pages 151-177

  11. Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of ‘Balkanist’ Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence Against ‘the West’

    • Sappho Xenakis
    Pages 178-196

  12. Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (Un)making

    • Justice Tankebe
    Pages 197-219

  13. ‘Governmentality’ and Governing Corrections: Do Senior Managers Resist?

    • Alison Liebling
    Pages 220-245

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 246-288
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    Leonidas K. Cheliotis

About the editor

ANDREA MUBI BRIGHENTI is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy LEONIDAS K. CHELIOTIS is Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK LILIE CHOULIARAKI is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SPIROS GANGAS is Professor I of Sociology at Deree College in Athens, Greece RICHARD KEARNEY holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, USA ALISON LIEBLING is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, UK JOHN O'NEILL is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, USA JUSTICE TANKEBE is a British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, USA EZRA TESSLER is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Department of History at Columbia University in New York, USA SAPPHO XENAKIS is a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow based at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens, Greece

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