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Making Enemies

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Rodney Barker

    1. The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Accounts of Enmity in Politics and Government

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 1-17

  3. Competition, Antagonism, and Enmity

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 18-34

  4. Patterns of Enmity: Varieties of Narrative

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 35-58

  5. Contexts of Enmity Narratives

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 59-70

  6. The Language and Imagery of Enmity

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 71-82

  7. Telling the Enmity Narrative

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 83-100

  8. Enemies of the People

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 101-113

  9. Demonisation: the Frenzy of Enmity

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 114-127

  10. Narratives of Contention: the Case of Party Politics in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Britain

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 128-148

  11. Enmity Narratives, Politics, and Peacefulness

    • Rodney Barker
    Pages 149-174

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 175-216
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About this book

Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with whom they will. Public identity can afford to be ambiguous about friends, but not about enemies. Barker examines the accounts of how enmity functions in the cultivation of identity, how essential or avoidable it is, and what the global consequences are.

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'...scholars and postgraduate students will find much to ponder in this book, including fascinating insights into the evolution of the public identites of the Labour and Conservative parties since 1989...[a] highly stimulating study.' - Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, Political Studies Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Rodney Barker

About the author

RODNEY BARKER is Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. He broadcasts frequently, and has been opera critic of Tribune. Recent publications include Legitimating Identities: The Self-presentations of Rulers and Subjects and Political Ideas in Modern Britain In and After the Twentieth Century.

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