Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance

1. Front Matter

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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.

• democracy
• economy
• ethics
• government
• police
• politics
• revolution
• transformation

• Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Leonidas K. Cheliotis

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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