Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique

ISBN 10: 1786600625 / ISBN 13: 9781786600622

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786600625
• ISBN 13: 9781786600622
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Questions of complicity emerge within a range of academic disciplines and everyday practices. Using a wide range of case studies, this book explores the concept of and cases of complicity in an interdisciplinary context. It expands orthodox understandings of the concept by including the notion of structural complicity, revealing seemingly inconsequential, everyday forms of complicity; examining different kinds and degrees of individual and collective complicity; and introducing complicity as a lens through which to analyse and critically reflect upon social structures and relations. It also explores complicity through a series of cases emerging from a variety of academic disciplines and professional practices. Its various chapters reflect on, amongst other things, the complicity of politicians, self-proclaimed feminists, health care workers, fictional characters, social movement activists and academic defenders of torture.

About the Author

Afxentis Afxentiou is a graduate student specialising in critical political thought at the University of Brighton.

Robin Dunford is a senior lecturer in globalisation and war at the University of Brighton.

Michael Neu is a senior lecturer in philosophy, politics and ethics at the University of Brighton.