Naslov
Conscientious Objectors or How Can the Claim for Non-Violence Find its Place

Autori
Kašić, Biljana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Međunarodna konferencija Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences "On Violence" : knjiga sažetaka / - , 2013

Skup
Međunarodna konferencija Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences "On Violence"

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.09.2013. - 07.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
non-violence; resistance; conscientious objectors; disobedience; masculinity; ethical issues

Sažetak
Taking a critical feminist perspective as my point of departure and reference, I aim to explore the politicality of disobedience as a civil and ethical ‘investment’ within the war context of post-Yugoslav states despite and beyond the ambiguities in terms of approaches to any geopolitical, ideological and nationally justifiable cause of war. In the presentation I will address both the issue of civil disobedience against the hegemonic and militaristic ‘normality’ that was established through militarized actions, retaliation and massacre upon civilians, detention camps, discrimination against women, ethnic cleansing and war terror of various kinds as well as the issue of consciousness objectors in its specificity and urgency. In this regard I will analyze the contesting question of masculinity challenged by patriotic appeals through concrete examples and simultaneously endeavour to posit the claim for non-violence by using a refusal of the military service as a recognizable and desirable act during war time. The main concern that emerges here is whether violence is a prerequisite for the formation of the (male) subject or its constitutive tendency to constantly create ‘the production of human havoc’ as its (un)willed effects. Apart from this, questions such as what are the conditions of making the claim for non-violence possible or, more precisely, which types of responsiveness to this claim can be possible within war circumstances, and in what sense does non-violence mean an ethical mode of acting will be posed and interpreted through the critical eyes of John Rawls, Emanuel Lévinas, Michael Walzer, Joseph Raz, Yvonne Deutsch, Judith Butler, among others.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Etnologija i antropologija

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