A New Philosophy of Social Conflict: Mediating Collective Trauma and Transitional Justice (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)

"A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontological dilemmas in life-affirming ways. Hawes draws on Deleuze-Guattarian thinking to create new concepts that enable us to think more productively and to live more ethically in a world increasingly characterized by sociocultural trauma and conflict, and to imagine alternative ways of resolving and reconciling trauma and conflict."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction – Transcendental Empiricism The revaluation of violent conflict, collective trauma and transitional justice Rwandan gaçaça courts Rwandan genocide genealogy A gaçaça ‘event’ Articulation and transformative practice A necessary theoretical detour Chapter 1 Becoming Conflict, Chaos and Trauma Chapter overview The genesis of representation Primary order Three passive syntheses Sublimation and symbolization Eternal return and counter-actualization Territorial assemblages of conflict Regression and descent into violence Desiring-production, social-production and social conflict Intra-state-sponsored violence Immanence and transcendence Chapter 2 Rethinking Social Conflict Theory Chapter overview Colonial and post-colonial Rwanda Agonistics, antagonistics and the democratic paradox Axiomatic capitalism Rationality and libidinality Generic theory, rational conflict and universal needs Schizoanalysis and collective assemblages of enunciation Schizoanalysis and machinic assemblages of trauma Chapter 3 Intuiting Attunement to Conflict Duration Chapter overview Intuition and badly stated questions of conflict Deleuze and Bergson on the method of intuition Conflict, representation and time Intuiting beyond the decisive turn An ethic of truth-effects Reconciling trauma durationally Gaçaça courts as partial war machines Chapter 4 Minor Communication, Regimes of Signs and Conversing Machines Chapter overview Rwanda as a territorial assemblage War machines and killing machines Minor communication Regimes of signs Conversing machines Conversational flows and traces Conversing bodies Taking and returning to turns Collective enunciation and desiring-utterances Planes and properties of utterances Conversing a politics of turn-taking Chapter 5 Order-Words, Truth-Procedures and Desiring-Utterances Chapter overview Order-words and genocide Indirect and direct discourse Quasi-direct discourse An ethic of witnessing and willingness Questions articulating desire to discourse Questions of desire and imagination Questions of subjectivation and experience Questions of will and agency Questions of resistance and resolve Desiring-utterances and the gaçaça process Performative turns Distributive turns Integrative turns Afterword – Schizoanalysis and Nomadic Discourse A pragmatics of human communication Contemporary historical context Axiom 1: The impossibility of not communicating Axiom 2: Content and relationship levels of communication Axiom 3: The punctuation of the sequence of events Axiom 4: Digital and analogic communication Axiom 5: Symmetrical and complementary interaction Limitations A schizoanalytics of nomadic discourse First principle: Universal singularities Second principle: Politics of language Third principle: Immanence of articulation Three syntheses of libidinality/desire Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Afterword Bibliography Index La 4e de couv. indique : ""A New Philosophy of Social Conflict" joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontological dilemmas in life-affirming ways. Hawes draws on Deleuze-Guattarian thinking to create new concepts that enable us to think more productively and to live more ethically in a world increasingly characterized by sociocultural trauma and conflict, and to imagine alternative ways of resolving and reconciling trauma and conflict." "A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontological dilemmas in life-affirming ways. Hawes draws on Deleuze-Guattarian thinking to create new concepts that enable us to think more productively and to live more ethically in a world increasingly characterized by sociocultural trauma and conflict, and to imagine alternative ways of resolving and reconciling trauma and conflict"-- Provided by publisher Provides A New Communication Philosophy Of Social Conflict Bycontributing A Deleuze-guattarian Reading Of The Rwandan Post-genocide Transitionaljustice Experiment Of The Gacaca Courts.