"it is crucial to distinguish abuse as 'power over' and conflict as 'power struggle' "
"Sarah Schulman proposes a radical understanding of how anxieties produce escalation towards shunning, blame and violence. In doing so, she shows how differentiating between conflict and abuse rejects the purity of the binary between the victim and the perpetrator for, in cases of conflict (power struggle) and often in cases even of abuse (power over), it does not provide a space for negotiation, changing one’s self-concept, recognition of both traumatised and supremacy behaviours, as well as for the process of repair. Rather than thinking in terms of accusation, exclusion and punishment, Sarah invites us to recognise that conflict positions are filled with opportunities to face ourselves and to elaborate solutions."
Ilana Eloit in
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2015/07/07/sarah-schulman-on-conflict-is-not-abuse-rethinking-community-responsibility-outside-of-the-state-apparatus/
the utopia for dialogue seems naïve if we try to reach places for the possibility of encounter and, maybe, dialogue, without awareness about the diverse form-ways we choose(?) to communicate with each other and how communication patterns are practised, about how basic hydration and glucose levels influence mood and behavior, about adrenaline and adrenaline addiction, about basic physiology and neurophysiology, about neurodiversity, without awareness about affect as pre-emotional intensities we are bathed in, about how emotions emerge and how emotional patterns are transmitted, about how our bodies are situated in the world and can be situated in diverse context-intensities-worlds, without awareness of needs and feelings, and wanting as an expression of needs (craving power as survival tool and empowerment) versus/ wanting as craving power-over, without awareness of power dynamics, without awareness of power dynamics in relation to inherited behaviours, cultural codes and habits, and without rooting back to human vulnerability and mutual care
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Sarah Schulman
"Sarah Schulman proposes a radical understanding of how anxieties produce escalation towards shunning, blame and violence. In doing so, she shows how differentiating between conflict and abuse rejects the purity of the binary between the victim and the perpetrator for, in cases of conflict (power struggle) and often in cases even of abuse (power over), it does not provide a space for negotiation, changing one’s self-concept, recognition of both traumatised and supremacy behaviours, as well as for the process of repair. Rather than thinking in terms of accusation, exclusion and punishment, Sarah invites us to recognise that conflict positions are filled with opportunities to face ourselves and to elaborate solutions."
Ilana Eloit in
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2015/07/07/sarah-schulman-on-conflict-is-not-abuse-rethinking-community-responsibility-outside-of-the-state-apparatus/
the utopia for dialogue seems naïve if we try to reach places for the possibility of encounter and, maybe, dialogue, without awareness about the diverse form-ways we choose(?) to communicate with each other and how communication patterns are practised, about how basic hydration and glucose levels influence mood and behavior, about adrenaline and adrenaline addiction, about basic physiology and neurophysiology, about neurodiversity, without awareness about affect as pre-emotional intensities we are bathed in, about how emotions emerge and how emotional patterns are transmitted, about how our bodies are situated in the world and can be situated in diverse context-intensities-worlds, without awareness of needs and feelings, and wanting as an expression of needs (craving power as survival tool and empowerment) versus/ wanting as craving power-over, without awareness of power dynamics, without awareness of power dynamics in relation to inherited behaviours, cultural codes and habits, and without rooting back to human vulnerability and mutual care
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