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    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
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    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism

    By Anna Bennett

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    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Anna Bennett insightfully explores Michel Foucault’s work on power and discourse in order to advance conceptual and contextual tools for understanding power dynamics. Through an examination of a range of extremist, terrorist, and counter-terrorist rhetoric, as well as various theories of power, Bennett analyzes the widespread problems associated with assuming that power is only repressive and competitive. This limited view reinforces — often unwittingly — divisive dynamics and stubborn polemics, which serve to continue conflict. By offering a comprehensive and constructive view of power struggles, The Power Paradox argues that power is a relational dynamic. Bennett identifies fascinating contradictions within discourses of power and relational dynamics, acknowledging the enduring quandary of power struggles: we are all implicated within them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateApr 13, 2012
    ISBN9780761857983
    The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
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    Anna Bennett

    Anna Bennett (she/her) is the award-winning author of the Debutante Diaries and Wayward Wallflowers series. Her dream of writing romance began during a semester in London, where she fell in love with the city, its history, and its pubs. Now Anna's living happily-ever-after in Maryland with her family, who try valiantly not to roll their eyes whenever she quotes Jane Austen.

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