Beyond Complicity
Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems
Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39423-0 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39423-0 (ISBN)
An ambitious study of our obsession with complicity that shows how we can all become "good accomplices."
Beyond Complicity is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves as we evaluate our own and others' responsibility for inherited and ongoing harms, such as racism, sexism, and climate change: What does it mean that someone "knew" they were contributing to wrongdoing? How much involvement must a person have in order to be complicit? At what point are we obligated to intervene?
Francine Banner ties together pop culture, politics, law, and social movements to provide a framework for thinking about what we know intuitively: that our society is defined by crisis, risk, and the quest to root out hazards at all costs. Engaging with legal cases, historical examples, and contemporary case studies, Beyond Complicity unfolds the complex role that complicity plays in US law and society today, offering suggestions for how to shift focus away from blame and toward positive, lasting systemic change.
Beyond Complicity is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves as we evaluate our own and others' responsibility for inherited and ongoing harms, such as racism, sexism, and climate change: What does it mean that someone "knew" they were contributing to wrongdoing? How much involvement must a person have in order to be complicit? At what point are we obligated to intervene?
Francine Banner ties together pop culture, politics, law, and social movements to provide a framework for thinking about what we know intuitively: that our society is defined by crisis, risk, and the quest to root out hazards at all costs. Engaging with legal cases, historical examples, and contemporary case studies, Beyond Complicity unfolds the complex role that complicity plays in US law and society today, offering suggestions for how to shift focus away from blame and toward positive, lasting systemic change.
Francine Banner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. An attorney, she is the author of numerous publications on gender, law, and society, including Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Blood on Our Hands: Accomplices to Racism
2. Enabling, Laundering, Greenwashing: Complicity in Addiction, Sexual Misconduct, and Climate Change
3. Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Criminal Accomplices
4. Accessories: White Women and Complicity
5. Assumptions of Risk
6. Beyond Complicity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-39423-2 / 0520394232 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-39423-0 / 9780520394230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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