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

Synopsis

[this Work] Is A Searing Rejection Of The Cultural Phenomenon Of Blame, Cruelty, And Scapegoating, Revealing How Those In Positions Of Power Exacerbate And Manipulate Fear Of The 'other' To Avoid Facing Themselves--front Flap. Introduction: A Reparative Manifesto -- Part One. The Conflicted Self And The Abusive State. In Love : Conflict Is Not Abuse ; Abandoning The Personal : The State And The Production Of Abuse ; The Police And The Politics Of Overstating Harm ; Hiv Criminalization In Canada -- Part Two. The Impulse To Escalate. On Escalation ; Manic Flight Reaction : Trigger + Shunning ; Queer Families, Compensatory Motherhood, And The Political Culture Of Escalation -- Part Three. Supremacy/trauma And The Justification Of Injustice : The Israeli War On Gaza. Watching Genocide Unfold In Real Time ; The Duty Of Repair. Sarah Schulman. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-290). Issued Also In Electronic Format.