Communities of Peace: Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice

113 Pages·2011·3.384 MB·English

by  Danielle Poe

COMMUNITIES OF PEACE
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Volume 229
Robert Ginsberg
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Leonidas Donskis
Executive Editor
Associate Editors
G. John M. Abbarno Steven V. Hicks
George Allan Richard T. Hull
Gerhold K. Becker Michael Krausz
Raymond Angelo Belliotti Olli Loukola
Kenneth A. Bryson Mark Letteri
C. Stephen Byrum Vincent L. Luizzi
Robert A. Delfino Adrianne McEvoy
Rem B. Edwards J.D. Mininger
Malcolm D. Evans Peter A. Redpath
Roland Faber Arleen L. F. Salles
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon John R. Shook
Francesc Forn i Argimon Eddy Souffrant
Daniel B. Gallagher Tuija Takala
William C. Gay Emil Višňovský
Dane R. Gordon Anne Waters
J. Everet Green James R. Watson
Heta Aleksandra Gylling John R. Welch
Matti Häyry Thomas Woods
Brian G. Henning
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COMMUNITIES OF PEACE
Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice
Edited by
Danielle Poe
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CONTENTS
EDITORIALFOREWORD ix
WILLIAMC.GAY
PREFACE xi
INTRODUCTION: 1
DANIELLEPOE
ONE Community and Diversity 3
WILLIAM C.GAY
TWO From Scaffold to Prison to Nursery: The Shame
of Punishment 9
WENDYC.HAMBLET
THREE Repressive Justice: Marcuse, Adorno, and the
American Attempt to Live Wrong Life Rightly 23
ARNOLDL.FARR
FOUR Intersectionality and Love 35
ANDREWFITZ-GIBBON
FIVE Moral Conviction and Disagreement: Getting
beyond Negative Toleration 43
MATTHEWPIANALTO
SIX In Support of the Girls from ‘Round Here: Black Feminist
Reflections on the Utility of Rage for Building Communities
of Support 53
V.DENISEJAMES
SEVEN A Sketch of the Moral Responsibility to Engage Oppressors 63
COURTLANDLEWIS
EIGHT The Radical Praxis of Teaching for a Just Community:
Marcuse and Kristeva on Liberating the Subject 73
TANYALOUGHEAD
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WORKSCITED 83
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 91
INDEX 95
EDITORIAL FOREWORD
This volume is the sixteenth one to appear in the Philosophy of Peace Special
Series since its inception in 1995. The fact that this Special Series is averaging
the publication of one book per year since that time is testament to the growing
academic importance of the Philosophy of Peace and to the emergence of a
mutigenerational scholarly community committed to advancing the field.
Only a few volumes in this Special Series have focused specifically on
issues of community. Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for
Peace (VIBS 127, 2000), edited by Alison Bailey and Paula J. Smithka, ad-
dressed themes of difference and community and the ideal of global commu-
nity. Positive Peace: Reflections on Peace Education, Nonviolence, and So-
cial Change (VIBS 217, 2010), edited by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, focuses on
the requirements for positive peace which is an essential component for just
communities. Danielle Poe, the editor of the present volume titled Communi-
ties of Peace: Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice, extends these ef-
forts by bringing together eight essays that explore various facets of the quest
for just communities.
Several of the authors (William C. Gay, Tanya Loughead, and Fitz-
Gibbon) address specific needs for and in a just community, and I note a few
of their suggestions. Biological diversity is needed in ecological communities,
and cultural diversity is needed in human communities. The desire for a just
community needs to be cultivated, and love can play an important role in con-
structing a just community.
Other authors (Wendy C. Hamblet, Arnold L. Farr, Matthew Pianalto,
Courtland Lewis, and V. Denise James) address techniques and methods for
addressing structures and practices of injustice that continue during the quest
for just communities. Among the techniques and methods proposed, I shall
mention a few of the most significant ones. Efforts need to be made to find
just methods for responding to unjust behavior. Responses need to be devel-
oped that address residual systems of privilege, and means need to be found
to identify and assist the least advantaged in a community. In order to main-
tain just communities ways need to be found for tolerating remaining differ-
ences. Furthermore, methods need to be found for transforming negative
emotions into active nonviolent responses.
Taken together, these essays provide an indication of the many chal-
lenges to be faced in seeking to create and then to maintain just communities.
At the same time, these essays also provide ground breaking proposals for
seeking to create just communities and for addressing residual unjust struc-
tures and practices. These contributors provide the basis for further theoreti-
cal reflection and practical action.
Achievement of just communities involves formidable challenges, but
these authors give us hope that such efforts need not be viewed as quixotic.