Discourse and Destruction - The City of Philadelphia versus MOVE

Preface Acknowledgments 1: A Framework for Articulating Horror 2: What Is MOVE? 3: The Language of Domesticity 4: Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation5: The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons 6: Decarcerating Discourse Notes Bibliography Index

Summary

This text reconstructs the conflict between MOVE, a radical black separatist group, and the city of Philadelphia. Against this account, the author develops an analysis of the relation between definition and action, between language and violence.

Product details

• Authors: Wagner-pacifici, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Robin E. Wagner-Pacifici, Robin Erica Wagner-Pacifici, Rob Watner-Pacifici
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.1994
• EAN: 9780226869773
• ISBN: 978-0-226-86977-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 284 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Violence in society, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Violence and abuse in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General