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SELF DEFENSE - ELSA DORLIN KARTONIERT (TB)

Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism  racism  sexism  capitalism 
there has long been a dividing line between bodies worthy of defending and those who have been
disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685  for example  France's infamous Code Noir forbade
slaves from carrying weapons  under penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria  the
colonial state outlawed the use of arms by Algerians  but granted French settlers the right to
bear arms. Today  some lives are seen to be worth so little that Black teenagers can be shot in
the back for appearing threatening while their killers are understood  by the state  to be
justified. That those subject to the most violence have been forcibly made defenseless raises 
for any movement of liberation  the question of using violence in the interest of self-defense.
Here  philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left - from slave revolts
to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists' training in ju-jitsu 
from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party  from queer neighborhood patrols to
Black Lives Matter - to trace the politics  philosophy  and ethics of self defense. In this
history she finds a martial ethics of the self: a practice in which violent self defense is the
only means for the oppressed to ensure survival and to build a liveable future. In this
sparkling and provocative book  drawing on theorists from Thomas Hobbes to Fred Hampton  Frantz
Fanon to Judith Butler  Michel Foucault to June Jordan  Dorlin has reworked the very idea of
modern governance and political subjectivity. Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons.

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