Conflict Is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, And The Duty Of Repair

Sarah Schulman

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.

This important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal, racial, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice, exclusion, and punishment, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities, people with HIV, African Americans, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the ‘other’ to achieve their goals.


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Details

ISBN 9781551526430
Genre Non-Fiction
Publication Date 04-Oct-16
Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 299
Notes Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Nonfiction
LoC Classification HM1126 .S38 2016
Language English
Rating Good
Subject Conflict management; Difference (Psychology); Social conflict; Social psychology
BookID 2374

Author: LFWBooks