In the Wake of Violence : Image & Social Reform.

How acts of violence are rhetorically ""managed"" by social movements: In the Wake of Violence explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of violence committed by independent radicals involved in single-issue movements. Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp explores several specific inc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2008.
Series:Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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Summary:How acts of violence are rhetorically ""managed"" by social movements: In the Wake of Violence explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of violence committed by independent radicals involved in single-issue movements. Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp explores several specific incidents in recent history-the arson of a Vail ski resort by environmentalists, the murder of Dr. John Britton by an antiabortion activist, and the torching of a University of California research laboratory by animal rights activists among them-to discover how the perpetrators of the violence and.
Physical Description:1 online resource (366 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-329) and index.
ISBN:9780870139291
0870139290