Binaries in battle :: representations of division and conflict /

Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt durin...

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Weitere Verfasser: Vuorinen, Marja (HerausgeberIn), Kotilainen, Noora (HerausgeberIn), Huhtinen, Aki (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443868952
1443868957
1322215928
9781322215921

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