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Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics

Steven C. Roach 2019
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Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today's political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this unquestioned belief is in crisis. Tribalism and identity politics have both hindered and threatened its moral stability and efficacy. Still, many continue to undertheorize its political character by isolating it from the effects of identity politics. Decency and Difference argues that decency is a primary source of the political tension that has long shaped the struggles for power, identity, and justice in the global arena. It distinguishes among basic, conservative, and liberal strands of decency to critically examine the many conflicting and competing applications of decency in global politics. Together these different strands reflect a long and uneven evolution from the British and American empires to a global network of justice. This powerful book exposes the gaps of decency and the disparate ways it is practiced, thus addressing the global challenge of configuring a diverse political ethic of decency.

 

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Series
  • Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-13162-4 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12615-6 (ebook)
Subject
  • Political Science:Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies
  • Political Science:International Relations
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The Idea of Decency
  • Chapter 2. The Making of a Basic Human Value
  • Chapter 3. Liberal Decency and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics
  • Chapter 4. Affective Decency and Its Unstructured Potential
  • Chapter 5. Islamism and Egyptian Politics
  • Chapter 6. Global and Local Justice in Northern Uganda
  • Chapter 7. The Roma’s Moral Predicament and the European Union
  • Chapter 8. Decency in the Age of Trump
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
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