Introduction to Political Theory

The force/violence distinction and the analysis of political violence In characterising the force of the state as violence, we a ...

than an explicitly authoritarian one, but what makes the state inherently arbitrary is its use of force. In the same way, the po ...

the state itself. He insists that to understand political violence is not to justify it, and that to identify political violence ...

Zinn finds that since September 11th an atmosphere has been created in the USA in which it becomes difficult to be critical of A ...

Questions Is it possible to distinguish between a practitioner of political violence and a freedom fighter? What role does the ...

Miller, D. (1984) ‘The Use and Abuse of Political Violence’ Political Studies37(3), 401–19. O’Day, A. (1979) ‘Northern Ireland, ...

Chapter 21 Difference Introduction In the period since the cold war, there has been a substantial amount of interest in the conc ...

Difference in Northern Ireland P eople in Northern Ireland have tended, since the founding of the statelet, to identify themselv ...

from yourself, can you imagine what it is like to be one? You can see that nationalists have suffered a history of humiliation a ...

Defining difference The concept of difference can only be defined when you seek to establish your identity. A person’s identity ...

The problem of the dominant identity It is natural that people express an identity that is relevant to a particular context. Wha ...

not regard conflict as necessarily involving violence. Conflict arises from our awareness of difference and, in a non-violent se ...

It is argued by Weedon that postmodernism represents a ‘position’ whereas poststructuralism is merely a method of critique which ...

words of Norris, they claim ‘to have achieved an omniscient standpoint beyond and above all other stories that people have told ...

Some identities are emancipatory, for instance, that of a gay person striving for justice and recognition in a homophobic societ ...

of differences that prevented women from being heads of households or taking part in politics. The liberal ‘public/private’ divi ...

is unique – and difference becomes something not to celebrate, but a justification for discrimination, and discrimination mystif ...

It is abstract because it is one-sided, and therefore ignores all the factors that make people what they are. It is true that i ...

they have need to be respected, so that people feel comfortable with their identity and able to participate in government. But w ...

restrained through counter-force. Or a person who is different from others, let us say because he is gay, cannot be expected to ...