Making Enemies

Zusatztext '...scholars and postgraduate students will find much to ponder in this book! including fascinating insights into the evolution of the public identites of the Labour and Conservative parties since 1989...[a] highly stimulating study.' - Marc Calvini-Lefebvre! Political Studies Review Informationen zum Autor RODNEY BARKER is Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. He broadcasts frequently, and has been opera critic of Tribune . Recent publications include Legitimating Identities: The Self-presentations of Rulers and Subjects and Political Ideas in Modern Britain In and After the Twentieth Century . Klappentext Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with whom they will. Public identity can afford to be ambiguous about friends! but not about enemies. Barker examines the accounts of how enmity functions in the cultivation of identity! how essential or avoidable it is! and what the global consequences are. Zusammenfassung Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with whom they will. Public identity can afford to be ambiguous about friends! but not about enemies. Barker examines the accounts of how enmity functions in the cultivation of identity! how essential or avoidable it is! and what the global consequences are. Inhaltsverzeichnis Accounts of Enmity in Politics and Government Competition, Antagonism and Enmity Patterns of Enmity: Varieties of Narrative Contexts of Enmity Narratives The Language and Imagery of Enmity Telling the Enmity Narrative Enemies of the People Demonization: The Frenzy of Enmity Narratives of Contention Enmity Narratives, Politics and Peacefulness

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• Authors: R Barker, R. Barker, Roberta Barker, Rodney Barker, Rodney S. Barker
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2006
• EAN: 9780230516816
• ISBN: 978-0-230-51681-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; B, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Political Theory, Warfare & defence, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Warfare and defence, Political science and theory, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, government;identity;politics