{"title":"Books by Kimberly Hutchings","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781509536726","title":"Violence and Political Theory","description":"Is politics necessarily violent? Does the justifiability of violence depend on whether it is perpetrated to defend or upend the existing order – or perhaps on the way in which it is conducted? Is violence simply direct physical harm, or can it also be structural, symbolic, or epistemic?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberley Hutchings explore how political theorists, from Niccolo Machiavelli to Elaine Scarry, have addressed these issues. They engage with both defenders and critics of violence in politics, analysing their diverse justificatory and rhetorical strategies in order to draw out the enduring themes of these debates. They show how political theorists have tended to evade the central difficulties raised by violence by either reducing it to a neutral tool or identifying it with something quite distinct, such as justice or virtue. They argue that, because violence is necessarily wrapped up with hierarchical and exclusive structures and imaginaries, legitimising it in terms of the ends that it serves, or how it is perpetrated, no longer makes sense.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in areas ranging from the ethics of terror and war to radical and revolutionary political thought.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301856522613,"sku":"9781509536726","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509536726_c5759c83-5faa-43aa-b647-37f63f8a9441.jpg?v=1786021661"},{"product_id":"9781509529216","title":"Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified?","description":"\u003cp\u003eViolence – from state coercion to wars and revolutions – remains an enduring global reality. But whereas it is often believed that the point of constitutional politics is to make violence unnecessary, others argue that it is an unavoidable element of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this lucid and erudite book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings address these issues using vivid contemporary and historic examples. They carefully explore the strategies that have been deployed to condone violence, either as means to certain ends or as an inherent facet of politics. Examining the complex questions raised by different types of violence, they conclude that, ultimately, all attempts to justify political violence fail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be essential introductory reading for students and scholars of the ethics and politics of political violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302174142837,"sku":"9781509529216","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509529216_fb912853-dcc8-4952-a1c4-588599bb5180.jpg?v=1786022381"},{"product_id":"9781509513956","title":"Global Ethics","description":"This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription – essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302558445941,"sku":"9781509513956","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509513956_031ac7ab-e52d-4a68-a691-657014e0affe.jpg?v=1786022295"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-kimberly-hutchings.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}