Conflict Is Not Abuse, Sarah Schulman
Conflict Is Not Abuse, Sarah Schulman
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Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Author: Sarah Schulman

Narrator: Sarah Schulman

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/10/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology

Synopsis

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.

This important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal, racial, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice, exclusion, and punishment, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities, people with HIV, African Americans, or Palestinians.

About Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her novels include Rat Bohemia, Empathy, After Delores, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Finn

Sarah Schulman says this in the introduction, but in order to get anything out of this book I feel I must stress it: This is not a book that is to be treated as "right" or "wrong." I say this mostly because I'm afraid many will read some of the more disagreeable notions and dismiss the whole project.......more

Goodreads review by Micah

Before the actual review: IF YOUR ACQUAINTANCE SAYS THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH AN ABUSIVE SITUATION PLEASE DO NOT FUCKING SIT THEM DOWN AND ASK THEM IF THEY'RE SURE IT'S *REALLY* ABUSE BECAUSE ONCE SARAH SCHULMAN SAID TO DO SO. JUST DO NOT PLEASE Figure shit out in a way that doesn't involve questioning a......more

Goodreads review by Gina

I wish I had checked the author, considering how much I hated Gentrification of the Mind. The premise of this book is solid: individuals and groups often overreact to perceived or minimal danger and claim abuse and/or accuse others of abuse when the situation is more nuanced and reciprocal than that......more

Goodreads review by Mara

This is a prime example of a book that I enjoyed for how much it made me think, not necessarily because I agreed with everything the author was arguing. I'm not entirely this frame is the right one for every kind of conflict, but I think particularly for online communities who are wrestling with the......more

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