Dissent from War
  • 2007/241 pages
  • A Kumarian Press Book

Dissent from War

Robert Ivie
Paperback: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-56549-240-0
The rhetorical presumption of war's necessity, observes Robert Ivie, functions to shame anyone who opposes military action and to portray dissenters as threats to national security. Showing the danger in this, Ivie explores the language of war supporters, soldiers, and antiwar activists and proposes strategies for resisting the dehumanizing language of war propaganda. His aim throughout is to focus attention on dissent from war as a viable and healthy practice of democratic citizenship.

Robert L. Ivie is professor in the Departments of American Studies and Communication and Culture at Indiana University.