Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-239) and index.
Contents:
1. More in common -- 2. Puncturing violent ignorance -- 3. Normal violence -- 4. Enduring crisis -- 5. Haunting families -- 6. Bystanders -- 7. Manifesto.
Summary:
An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-like conditions without judicial oversight or any time-limit on their sentence. An attempt to reassert national sovereignty and borders leads thousands of citizens to register for dual citizenship with other countries, some overcoming family associations with genocide in their second country of nationality to do so. This is life in the UK today. How then are things still continuing as 'normal"? How can we confron these phenomena and why do we so often refuse to? What are the practices that help us to accommodate the unconscionable? How might we contend with the horrors that meet us each day, rather than becoming desensitized to them? Violent Ignorance sets out to examine these questions through an understanding of how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter--rather than ignore--historic violence--back cover.
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