Theorizing the Standoff

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Theorizing the Standoff

Theorizing the Standoff

Name: Theorizing the Standoff
ISBN: 9780521652445

Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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This book combines original theoretical analysis with real life case studies to examine the nature of the standoff. The author explores seven actual standoffs between anti-state groups and organizations of law enforcement (six from the United Staes and one from Peru), and the archetypal patterns of human action and cognition that move us into and out of these highly charged situations. Evoking original ideas about time, space and appropriate or anticipated action, she develops a theory of the fundamental existential indeterminacy of social life and the role improvisation can play in preventing violent outcomes.

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy

Year:

2000

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

292

ISBN 10:

0521652448