@article{ref1,
title="Setting struggle in motion: From 'non-violence' to revolutionary anti-violence",
journal="Philosophy and social criticism",
year="2022",
author="Cornell, Drucilla and Seely, Stephen D.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In light of the rising anti-racist and decolonial struggles breaking out in the world, this essay seeks to displace the theoretical dichotomy between 'violence' and 'non-violence'. We begin by revisiting Arendt and Fanon to argue that within the conditions of colonial-racial capitalism, 'non-violence' is merely a theoretical abstraction. Building on Fanon, who understands decolonial struggle as setting the 'atmospheric violence' of colonization into motion toward a new humanity, we develop our own vocabulary of revolutionary anti-violence that replaces a static dichotomy with a spectrum of spontaneous insurrectional activity, non-retaliatory anti-violence, self-defense, and offensive armed struggle. From these, we reinterpret various struggles and distinguish them from terrorism. By centralizing anti-violence as an ethical ideal and political struggle, we aim to overcome the unproductive pitting of 'good' (non-violent) movements from 'bad' (violent or terrorist) ones and offer a political theory of violence more appropriate to our times.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-4537",
doi="10.1177/01914537221093725",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01914537221093725"
}