Violence and abuse in society Books
University of California Press LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Book SynopsisNationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many similarities exist between LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender intimate partner violence, research has illuminated a variety of unique aspects of LGBTQ intimate partner violence regarding the predictors of perpetration, the specific forms of abuse experienced, barriers to help-seeking for victims, and policy and intervention needs. This is the first book that systematically reviews the literature regarding LGBTQ intimate partner violence, draws key lessons for current practice and policy, and recommends research areas and enhanced methodologies.Trade Review"Messinger provides a meticulous examination of the challenges for studying LGBTQ IPV and offers keen recommendations for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. A must-read for those interested in social work, counseling, and intimate relationships, as well as anyone working with LGBTQ populations." * CHOICE *"An insightful and detailed discussion of the institutional and legal obstacles to the integration of LGBTQ individuals into U.S. society, and how that impacts LGBTQ intimate partner abuse." * PsycCRITIQUES *"The author brings to light an often-overlooked problem and offers practical suggestions for increasing protections and improving service provision for LGBTQ people who are victimized by intimate partners... compelling." * American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible 2. How Do We Know What We Know? 3. What Is LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)? 4. Why Does LGBTQ IPV Happen? 5. How Can We Improve Nongovernmental Responses? 6. How Can We Improve Government Responses? 7. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix: Book Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£25.50
University of California Press Feeling Trapped
Book SynopsisThe relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to this violence. Ptacek's framing of women's victimization as social entrapment links private violence to public responses and connects social inequalities to the dilemmas that women face.Trade Review"Destined to become a classic." * ACJS Today *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Conversations with Women about Abuse 2. The Hidden Dramas of Masculinity 3. Failed Femininity and Psychological Cruelty 4. Terror, Fear, and Caution: Physical Violence and Threats 5. The Continuum of Sexual Abuse 6. Economic Abuse: Control, Sabotage, and Exploitation 7. The Emotional Dynamics of Entrapment: Love, Fear, Anger, Guilt, and Shame 8. Separation, Healing, and Justice Conclusion: Intimate Violence as Social Entrapment Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Feeling Trapped
Book SynopsisThe relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to this violence. Ptacek's framing of women's victimization as social entrapment links private violence to public responses and connects social inequalities to the dilemmas that women face.Trade Review"Destined to become a classic." * ACJS Today *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Conversations with Women about Abuse 2. The Hidden Dramas of Masculinity 3. Failed Femininity and Psychological Cruelty 4. Terror, Fear, and Caution: Physical Violence and Threats 5. The Continuum of Sexual Abuse 6. Economic Abuse: Control, Sabotage, and Exploitation 7. The Emotional Dynamics of Entrapment: Love, Fear, Anger, Guilt, and Shame 8. Separation, Healing, and Justice Conclusion: Intimate Violence as Social Entrapment Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
University of California Press Traces of Violence Writings on the Disaster in
Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: "Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
£60.35
University of California Press Habrih K Traces of Violence
Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: "Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
£25.50
University of California Press America Goddam
Book SynopsisOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022,Kirkus Reviews A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title,this bookis a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddamexplores the combined forceof anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir,America, Goddamrenders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm anTrade Review"A searing investigation of the violent oppression experienced by Black women and girls in America. . . . Required reading for all Americans." * Kirkus Reviews *"In this fiery debut, Lindsey . . . decries historical and contemporary injustices against Black women in America. Interweaving her own harrowing experiences with astute cultural and political analysis, Lindsey sheds light on how police mistreatment, medical racism, poverty, intracommunal violence, and other social ills place Black women in a condition of 'unlivable living.'. . . Carefully researched and sharply argued, this is a righteous indictment of racism and misogyny." * Publishers Weekly *"This book quickly creates space for the reader to ponder and grow without feeling ashamed of their starting point in the discussion. . . . The debate and exchange between the reader and the author does not call for a change in beliefs, unless desired by the reader, but a realization of the alternative harsh reality that exists for Black girls and women." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Goddam, Goddam, Goddam 1 Say Her Name: Policing Is Violence 2 The Caged Bird Sings: The Criminal Punishment System 3 Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence 4 Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex 5 Unlivable: The Deadly Consequences of Poverty 6 They Say I'm Hopeless 7 We Were Not Meant to Survive Epilogue. A Letter to Ma'Khia Bryant Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Broken
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University of California Press Broken
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University of California Press Exit Wounds
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University of California Press America Goddam
Book SynopsisOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022,Kirkus Reviews A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title,this bookis a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddamexplores the combined forceof anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir,America, Goddamrenders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. America, Goddam allows readers to understand How Black womenwho have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participantsare rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. America, Goddampowerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States.Trade Review"A searing investigation of the violent oppression experienced by Black women and girls in America. . . . Required reading for all Americans." * Kirkus Reviews *"In this fiery debut, Lindsey . . . decries historical and contemporary injustices against Black women in America. Interweaving her own harrowing experiences with astute cultural and political analysis, Lindsey sheds light on how police mistreatment, medical racism, poverty, intracommunal violence, and other social ills place Black women in a condition of 'unlivable living.'. . . Carefully researched and sharply argued, this is a righteous indictment of racism and misogyny." * Publishers Weekly *"This book quickly creates space for the reader to ponder and grow without feeling ashamed of their starting point in the discussion. . . . The debate and exchange between the reader and the author does not call for a change in beliefs, unless desired by the reader, but a realization of the alternative harsh reality that exists for Black girls and women." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Goddam, Goddam, Goddam 1 Say Her Name: Policing Is Violence 2 The Caged Bird Sings: The Criminal Punishment System 3 Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence 4 Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex 5 Unlivable: The Deadly Consequences of Poverty 6 They Say I'm Hopeless 7 We Were Not Meant to Survive Epilogue. A Letter to Ma'Khia Bryant Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£18.90
Cambridge University Press Sorel Reflections on Violence Cambridge Texts in
Book SynopsisGeorges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided inspiration for Marxists and Fascists alike. Developing the ideas of violence, myth and the general strike, Sorel celebrates the heroic action of the proletariat as a means of saving the modern world from decadence and of re-invigorating the capitalist spirit of a timid bourgeoisie. This edition of Sorel's classic text is accompanied by an editor's introduction by Jeremy Jennings, a leading scholar of political thought, both setting the work in its context and explaining its major themes. A chronology of Sorel's life and a list of further reading are included.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Reflections on Violence: Introduction; Part I. Class Struggle and Violence; Part II. The Decadence of the Bourgeoisie and Violence; Part III. Prejudices against Violence; Part IV. The Proletarian Strike; Part V. The Political General Strike; Part VI. The Ethics of Violence; Part VII. The Ethics of the Producers; Appendix I. Unity and multiplicity; Appendix II. Apology for violence; Appendix III. In defence of Lenin.
£26.99
Cambridge University Press Urban Protest in SeventeenthCentury France
Book SynopsisThis lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first comparative study of the interaction between crowds and public authorities in the early modern period. Through comparative analysis of eyewitness narratives from more than fifteen seventeenth-century cities, William Beik explores the full spectrum of urban French unrest.Trade Review"Beik's work is a major addition to the historiography of French early modern popular protest....Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Upper-division undergraduates and above." D.C. Baxter, Choice"...W.B. offers a corrective to the picture typically given by historians of the reign of Louis XIV..." Orest Ranum, 16th Century Jrnl"...a careful and incisive historical tour of provincial cities tool little visited by scholars of revolt. This book is a fine, honest struggle, which identifies problems clearly, grapples with them intelligently, and presents evidence honestly, an excellent and stimulating model of the historian's craft." Malcolm Greenshields, Canadian Jrnl of History"In this lucid survey, William Beik deepens our understanding of the cultural contours of seventeenth-century urban protest in provincial France. Beik has written a book that students of popular protest in any period will find stimulating and rewarding." Gail Bossenga, American Historical Review"Beik is both convincing and free of the sin of romanticizing the popular classes." Mack P. Holt, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; List of figures; List of maps and illustrations; List of tables; 1. Introduction: urban protest; 2. Everyday resistance; 3. The culture of retribution; 4. The position of the magistrates; 5. The ambivalence of the magistrates; 6. Notable uprisings before 1661; 7. Notable uprisings under Louis XIV; 8. Factional parties and popular followings; 9. Princely leaders and popular parties; 10. Popular parties in Bordeaux's Fronde; 11. Conclusion: the culture of retribution; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography.
£32.99
Cambridge University Press Extremely Violent Societies Mass Violence in the TwentiethCentury World
Book SynopsisTracing the roots of mass violence in the twentieth century, this book demonstrates that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse causes of human destruction. The author explores periods of widespread bloodshed in countries such as Armenia and Bangladesh and anti-guerilla wars worldwide.Trade Review'In this pathbreaking book, Christian Gerlach undermines the tunnel-vision of mainstream genocide research. Introducing a challenging new theoretical approach, Gerlach convincingly demonstrates the messy, complex patterns of mass violence in the modern world. Everyone interested in these issues will enrich their understanding by engaging with his arguments and case-studies.' Martin Shaw, University of Sussex'A tour de force of thinking and research, Extremely Violent Societies is a bold and original analysis of mass violence in the twentieth century. Writing global history at its best, Christian Gerlach ranges from Ottoman Armenia to Nazi-occupied Europe, from Indonesia to East Pakistan and further to explore why, at particular times, these societies exploded in paroxysms of violence. In supplanting a simplistic, state- and ideology-centered genocide model with a multi-causal approach, he convincingly argues that complex processes during transitional crises enlist all social groups in producing these terrible outcomes. At once sober and humane, this book is a landmark in the scholarly analysis of the most troubling phenomenon of our times.' A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney'After his remarkable study on the Holocaust, Christian Gerlach demonstrates in this very innovative book, his capacity to tackle mass violence from a comparative perspective. His approach is not only courageous and challenging, but also insightful and certainly deserves to be discussed in genocide scholarly circles and beyond.' Jacques Semelin, CERI-CNRS, Center for International Studies and ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction: extremely violent societies; Part I. Participatory Violence: 2. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965–66; 3. Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915–23; Part II. The Crisis of Society: 4. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971–77; 5. Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare; 6. What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis; Part III. General Observations: 7. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction; 8. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The Sociology of War and Violence
Book SynopsisThis textbook demonstrates how to use sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. There is a particular focus on the historical and contemporary impact of coercion and warfare on the transformation of social life, and vice versa.Trade Review'With its combination of theoretical acumen and historical insights, this book is a significant step forward in the reintegration of war into the sociological canon. Both students and experienced scholars will appreciate Malesevic's perspectives on how war made us who we are.' Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University'This is a major contribution, at once a survey of key intellectual fields (sociological theory, the history of war understood in comparative terms and an analysis of the key social variables involved) and a major piece of innovation, based on a powerful appreciation of ideological and bureaucratic development. There is no better book on the subject.' John A. Hall, McGill University'An incisive examination of the theoretical literature on warfare and violence. Lucid and wide-ranging, this will be an invaluable guide to scholars and students.' John Hutchinson, London School of Economics and Political Science'Malešević ranges with authority and intelligence over the major debates concerning war in human societies past and present, arguing powerfully and provocatively for a theory centred on social organization and ideology. This is easily the best general account of the sociology of war.' Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles'The Sociology of War and Violence is at once powerful social theory and excellent comparative-historical sociology. Malesevic's central claim is that sociological theories - particularly those based on ideological organization and the bureaucratization of coercion - offer a useful understanding of war, modernity and social change … an extremely important and original book.' Canadian Journal of Sociology'Siniša Malešević's comprehensive work combines an impressive collection of theoretical insights with a sweeping review of violence, warfare, and coercion throughout the ages.' Erica Chenoweth, International RelationsTable of ContentsIntroduction: war, violence and the social; Part I. Collective Violence and Sociological Theory: 1. War and violence in classical social thought; 2. The contemporary sociology of organised violence; Part II. War in Time and Space: 3. War and violence before modernity; 4. Organized violence and modernity; 5. The social geographies of warfare; Part III. Warfare: Ideas and Practices: 6. Nationalism and war; 7. War propaganda and solidarity; Part IV. War, Violence and Social Divisions: 8. Social stratification, warfare and violence; 9. Gendering of war; Part V. Organised Violence in the 21st Century: 10. New wars?; Conclusion.
£35.99
Cambridge University Press Extremely Violent Societies Mass Violence in the TwentiethCentury World
Book SynopsisTracing the roots of mass violence in the twentieth century, this book demonstrates that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse causes of human destruction. The author explores periods of widespread bloodshed in countries such as Armenia and Bangladesh and anti-guerilla wars worldwide.Trade Review'In this pathbreaking book, Christian Gerlach undermines the tunnel-vision of mainstream genocide research. Introducing a challenging new theoretical approach, Gerlach convincingly demonstrates the messy, complex patterns of mass violence in the modern world. Everyone interested in these issues will enrich their understanding by engaging with his arguments and case-studies.' Martin Shaw, University of Sussex'A tour de force of thinking and research, Extremely Violent Societies is a bold and original analysis of mass violence in the twentieth century. Writing global history at its best, Christian Gerlach ranges from Ottoman Armenia to Nazi-occupied Europe, from Indonesia to East Pakistan and further to explore why, at particular times, these societies exploded in paroxysms of violence. In supplanting a simplistic, state- and ideology-centered genocide model with a multi-causal approach, he convincingly argues that complex processes during transitional crises enlist all social groups in producing these terrible outcomes. At once sober and humane, this book is a landmark in the scholarly analysis of the most troubling phenomenon of our times.' A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney'After his remarkable study on the Holocaust, Christian Gerlach demonstrates in this very innovative book, his capacity to tackle mass violence from a comparative perspective. His approach is not only courageous and challenging, but also insightful and certainly deserves to be discussed in genocide scholarly circles and beyond.' Jacques Semelin, CERI-CNRS, Center for International Studies and ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction: extremely violent societies; Part I. Participatory Violence: 2. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965–66; 3. Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915–23; Part II. The Crisis of Society: 4. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971–77; 5. Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare; 6. What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis; Part III. General Observations: 7. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction; 8. Conclusions.
£73.77
Alfred A. Knopf Squirrel Hill
Book SynopsisA piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America''s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and se
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sanctified Aggression Legacies of Biblical and PostBiblical Vocabularies of Violence 400 Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement S
Trade ReviewReview ~International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05"Overall, this collection represents a compelling example of cultural criticism and makes patent why approaches such as demonstrated here must begin to command a larger amount of our energy as biblical scholars. These essays do not need to argue for the Bible's relevance; they demonstrate it." - RBL, September 2005 * Review of Biblical Literature *
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Faber & Faber The Science of Hate
Book SynopsisWhy do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book. 'A key text for how we live now.' DAVID BADDIEL'This is a world-changing book.' ALICE ROBERTS'Timely and superb.' RACHEL CLARKE'Persuasive and compassionate.' ROBIN INCE'Fascinating and moving.' PRAGYA AGARWALAre our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? With hate on the rise, what can we do to turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - world-renowned criminologist Matthew Williams explores one of the pressing issues of our age.Surveying human behaviour across the globe and reaching back through time, from our tribal ancestors in prehistory to artificial intelligence iTrade Review;An important read, combining an expert use of data with moving, personal storytelling. A key text for how we live now.' - David Baddiel'A truly insightful book that can help us all understand why hate can overpower us. It is wise, disarming, persuasive and compassionate.' - Robin Ince'Powerful. This is a world-changing book . . . From personal histories to broader social patterns, from individual criminal cases to the latest neuroscience and psychology, Matthew Williams' brilliant forensic dissection of hate reveals its insidious power - but also its weaknesses. This book is not just about how and why hate happens - it's about how to combat it.' - Alice Roberts'This is an incredibly powerful, important and valuable book on what causes hate and how we can help prevent and defeat it.' - Peter Tatchell'Fascinating . . . meticulously researched . . . written in a really accessible manner . . . expansive in approach and supplemented with so many real-world case studies. This is a really key contribution to our understanding of the divides in our society, and how these can perhaps be repaired.' - Dr Pragya Agarwal'Williams is masterful at making this complex topic accessible, so we can all better understand hate and the dark side of human behaviour and finally, start to tackle it.' - Nova Reid
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Random House USA Inc War How Conflict Shaped Us
Book SynopsisIs peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and chall
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Random House USA Inc How Civil Wars Start
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States?Required reading for anyone invested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.??The New York Times Book Review (Editors? Choice)WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD ? THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times (UK), Esquire, Prospect (UK)Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.Perhaps surprisingly, both autocracies and healthy democracies are largely immune from civil war; it?s the countries in the middle ground that are most vulnerable. And this is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves today.Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost doubled. Walter reveals the warning signs?where wars tend to start, who initiates them, what triggers them?and why some countries tip over into conflict while others remain stable. Drawing on the latest international research and lessons from over twenty countries, Walter identifies the crucial risk factors, from democratic backsliding to factionalization and the politics of resentment. A civil war today won?t look like America in the 1860s, Russia in the 1920s, or Spain in the 1930s. It will begin with sporadic acts of violence and terror, accelerated by social media. It will sneak up on us and leave us wondering how we could have been so blind.In this urgent and insightful book, Walter redefines civil war for a new age, providing the framework we need to confront the danger we now face?and the knowledge to stop it before it?s too late.
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Alfred A. Knopf If Love Could Kill
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimesWomen can be murderers and child abusers. They can commit acts of extreme and sadistic brutality. And those who do, are outcasts from society and from womanhood itself. They are seen as monsters and angels of death: and must be kept at a safe distance.Anna Motz is a renowned clinical and forensic psychologist in London and New York. Writing with candor, compassion, and a clear-eyed perspective, she explores in depth the shockingly underexamined psychological underpinnings of female violence. Far from the heartless and inhuman monsters we might believe them to be, these women are often victims of a culture of violence and emotional trauma.Already hailed as a landmark, Motz's daring book, bursting with humanity, makes
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Random House USA Inc One Nation Under Guns
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Sph3 Publishing Eyes Without a Face A true story of survival from emotional sexual and physical abuse
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Explaining Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisThis is a review of explanations of the Northern Ireland conflict given by both academic commentators and by actors within Northern Ireland. The book offers a critical guide to explanations for this conflict, then presents a synthesis which situates the conflict in comparative perspective.Trade Review"The authors are experts not only on Northern Ireland but on ethnic conflict in many other countries. The comparative perspective that they bring to their treatment of Northern Ireland gives it extraordinary depth and insight. It is a stimulating analysis not only for Northern Ireland buffs, but for anyone interested in the roots of ethnic conflict - the world's number-one problem in the 1990s and probably in the twenty-first century, too." Professor Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego, President of the American Political Science Association (1995-6) "This is a trenchant analysis and critique of the arguments around the Northern Ireland conflict. McGarry and O'Leary slice their way through the tangle of argument, prejudice, history and propaganda which surround the issue, while avoiding the traps into which so many others have fallen. They present a merciless critique of reductionist interpretations of the Northern Ireland issue from all parts of the political spectrum, continually bringing us back to the facts on the ground. This will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand this tangled question." Michael Keating, University of Western Ontario "In Explaining Northern Ireland McGarry and O'Leary strip away the misconceptions, dogmas, and stereotypes that have stood in the way of so many efforts to understand and resolve the fate of Northern Ireland. They demonstrate, compellingly, that both Catholoic nationalism and Protestant loyalism are real and contradictory forces, that they have never had an accurate understanding of one another, and that only by accommodating what is minimally required by both communities can peace be achieved. The authors write with wit and wisdom, showing why the conflict has been so intractable, but also explaining why the prospects for a stable and relatively just peace are now good, even if they are not certain. This is a must-read book for anyone who has despaired of peace in Ireland or who believes it is right around the corner." Professor Ian S. Lustick, University of Pennsylvania "Explaining Northern Ireland lives up to its title. It is the most effective and intelligent analysis we have of the crisis itself, of its attendant discourses, of its possible resolution. This book deals astringently with much of the propaganda, melodrama and lies that have surrounded the Northern Ireland problem. It should be recommended reading for all those genuinely interested in finding a solution that is rational, humane and enduring. It is also a model of the kind of analysis that such conflicts need if they are ever to be understood or resolved." Professor Seamus Deane, University of Notre Dame "If read and heeded could well influence the decisions of those who come to the negotiating table. O'Leary is a man ahead of the pack, a man with a contribution made as Ireland stands at the crossroads of history ... He gives a new slant on the whole thing, claiming that the British and Irish states created the conditions that made it difficult for the people of the North to live together." Irish World "The book provides a balanced account of nationalist and unionist discourse followed by an intelligent deconstruction of both. The critical examination of Irish nationalist theory stands favorable comparison with the cascade of tracts produced by unionist ideologues on the subject, not because McGarry and O'Leary are necessarily more favourable to Irish nationalism (though they are) but simply because their critique is well structured, intelligent, and reasoned, rather than reductionist, polemical and emotional ... There is much in the book which will continue to fuel arguments amoung undergraduates (and feuds amongst the rest of us) for the foreseeable future. That is recommendation enough for reading it." Feargal Cochrane, Queen's University Belfast, Irish Political StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Explanations and Images. Part I: External Explanations:. 1. Nationalist Discourses. 2. Green Political Economy. 3. Unionist Discourses. 4. Revisionist Marxism. Part II: Internal Explanations: . 5. Warring Gods: Theological Tales. 6. Fiery Values: Cultural Interpretations. 7. Mammon and Utility: Liberal Economic Reasonings. Part III: Synthesis and Futures:. 8. No Place Apart: Comparative Political Analysis. 9. Pain-killers, Panaceas and Solvents. 10. Afterword. Appendix A: The Joint Declaration for Peace (December 1993). Appendix B: Analysis of the Text of the Joint Peace Declaration. Notes. Additional References. Glossary and Terminology. Abbreviations. Name Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bullying at School
Book SynopsisOffers advice to school principals, teachers, and parents on how to implement a "whole school approach to bullying". This book provides guidance to help teachers and parents recognize if a child is being victimized or bullies others. It is suitable for those who are involved with children and young people.Trade Review"The problem of school bullying is one of growing dimensions and is of tremendous concern to teachers, parents, and many of the children themselves. Professor Olweus is without question the world's leading authority on the topic. His book is a succinct yet accurate and thorough statement of the problem and what educators and parents can do to alleviate it. It will be invaluable to its intended readership." Professor David G. Perry, Florida Atlantic University. "Olweus's book provides evidence that his programme of intervention has encouraging results where it has been applied, leading to significant and sustained reductions in direct and indirect bullying. This should encourage schools and authorities to study the method described and the valuable suggestions made. There is a useful and wide-ranging reference list of works on bullying and aggression." Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health "Dr Olweus' program, which is in place at 42 Norwegian schools, is the first program against bully/victim problems to be scrutinized by scientific research... The program has been so successful that it is now being set up in several other countries including the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and the United States. For Dr Olweus... has studied the problem of bullying for 20 years... Dr Olweus' intervention program is described in detail in his book Bullying at School." Pediatric News "Share it with other parents." Kentucky EnquirerTable of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments xl Introduction 1 Part I What We Know About Bullying 5 Stories from the Press 7 What is Meant by Bullying? 8 Some Information About the Recent Studies 10 One Student out of Seven 13 Bully/Victim Problems in Different Grades 14 Have Bully/Victim Problems Increased? 17 Bullying Among Boys and Girls 18 How Much Do the Teachers Do? How Much Do the Parents Know? 20 Bullying at School and on the Way to and from School 21 Comparison between Norway and Sweden 21 Is Bullying Primarily a Big-City Problem? 23 The Size of the School and the Class 23 Supervision during Recess and Lunch Time 25 On Analyses at Different Levels 26 Stability of Bully/Victim Problems over Time 27 Is Bullying a Consequence of Competition at School? 28 What Role do External Deviations Play? 30 What Characterizes the Typical Victims? 31 What Characterizes the Typical Bullies? 34 Physical Weakness and Strength 36 A Concrete Picture 37 What Kind of Rearing Conditions Create Aggressive Children? 39 Group Mechanisms 43 Other Factors 45 A Wider Perspective on Bully/Victim Problems 45 A Question of Fundamental Democratic Rights 48 Portrait Sketches of Henry and Roger, a Victim and a Bully 49 Guide for the Identification of Possible Victims and Bullies 53 Being a Victim - Possible Signs 54 Being a Bully - Possible Signs 58 Part II What We Can Do About Bullying 61 Overview of Intervention Program 64 Goals 65 Awareness and Involvement 66 Measures at the School Level 69 A School Conference Day 69 Supervision and Outdoor Environment 70 Contact Telephone 74 A General PTA Meeting 75 Teacher Groups for the Development of the Social Milieu of the School 77 Study Groups in Parent-Teacher Associations (Parent Circles) 79 Measures at the Class Level 81 Class Rules about Bullying 81 Praise 85 Sanctions 86 Class Meetings 88 Cooperative Learning 89 Common Positive Activities 92 Class PTA Meetings 93 Measures at the Individual Level 97 Serious Talks with the Bully 97 Talks with the Victim 97 Talks with the Parents 100 What Can the Parents of the Bully Do? 101 What Can the Parents of the Victim Do? 103 Use of Imagination 105 Discussion Groups for Parents of Bullied or Bullying Students 106 Change of Class or School 107 Part III Effects of the Intervention Program 109 Main Findings 113 Brief Comments 114 Basic Principles 115 Additional Characteristics 116 Part IV Additional Practical Advice and a Core Program 119 Support from the Principal and Formation of a Coordinating Group 122 Awareness and Involvement 123 Adequate Supervision During Recess and Lunch Time 124 Class Rules and Class Meetings 124 Talks with Involved Students and Their Parents 125 Overview of Core Program 127 Final words 128 References 129 Index 137
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender Violence
Book SynopsisGendered Violence: A Cultural Perspective challenges readers to confront gender violence as a social problem deeply embedded in inequalities of class, race, and nation as well as gender. It offers a highly readable and clear overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and its history as a public issue.Trade ReviewThis acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it have lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference, however, this book will. -Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through some of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merry draws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide a primer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and a sophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenly distribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres to the complex and ambiguous social, personal, and political predicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing how activism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible, confronted, and understood. -Ann Laura Stoler, The New SchoolTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction 1 2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25 3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence 48 4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77 5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102 6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127 7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156 8 Conclusions 179 References 187 Index 207
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender Violence
Book SynopsisTaking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, honor killings, and sex trafficking Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally Trade ReviewThis acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it have lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference, however, this book will. -Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through some of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merry draws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide a primer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and a sophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenly distribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres to the complex and ambiguous social, personal, and political predicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing how activism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible, confronted, and understood. -Ann Laura Stoler, The New SchoolTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction 1 2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25 3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence 48 4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77 5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102 6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127 7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156 8 Conclusions 179 References 187 Index 207
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Harvard University Press Overconfidence and War
Book SynopsisJohnson argues that states are no more rational than people, who are susceptible to exaggerated ideas of their virtue, of the scope of their control, and of the future. By looking at such positive illusions in evolutionary biology, psychology, and politics of international conflict, this book offers compelling insights into why states wage war.Trade ReviewDominic Johnson shows that international conflicts need not escalate into long, costly wars -- if decision-makers rely on well-vetted information and avoid wishful thinking. He provides a lucid, convincing analysis of the disastrous consequences when normal confidence gives way to arrogance, causing leaders to believe their own propaganda, assume superiority, and deny facts. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and EndOverconfidence and War is a fascinating and insightful analysis. Its skillful blend of history, psychology, and evolutionary biology is a model for a new kind of social analysis, one that will have increasing prominence in the years to come. -- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Blank SlateThe puzzle of why countries go to war is a puzzle only for those who assume that humans are calculating machines. Dominic Johnson provides a scientific foundation for understanding how humans really make decisions about the most important questions they face. We need more books like Overconfidence and War. -- Stephen Peter Rosen, Harvard UniversityThis is an important book, both timely and of enduring value. It traces in detail the dreadful connection between self-deception and human warfare and suggests the kinds of thinking we must guard against if we are to avoid war. Read this book in hopes of a better, more conscious day-a day when we will not blunder so easily and stupidly off the first cliff inviting us to war. -- Robert TriversDominic Johnson's attack on the war puzzle is novel, convincing, and appealing. Steeped in sound biology and a detailed account of key well-documented conflicts, Overconfidence and War marks an important advance in the long-anticipated integration of political science and evolutionary theory. -- Richard Wrangham, co-author of Demonic MalesJohnson applies the logic of evolution to international relations. Following one of his mentors, the Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham, he suggests that overconfidence might once have been helpful in war and conflict. On the ancient African savannah, it was actually rational to misestimate your own capacities: a fearsome appearance and bold tactics could intimidate the enemy and help carry the day during lightning raids on enemy camps. But today, given modern weaponry, bureaucratic planning and mass armies, a cocky disposition is as likely to be suicidal as it is glorious. Military overconfidence, in other words, is a psychological holdover--a cognitive appendix--from an earlier period in human history. It is perhaps most dangerous when it prompts a decision for war in the first place. And it could be the X-factor explaining the otherwise inexplicable in recent military history: French faith in the Maginot line, Hitler's drive into Russia, the American failure to heed the lessons of French defeat in Vietnam. Most humans are prone to overestimating themselves, but leaders (who are inordinately ambitious and, by definition, have suffered few recent professional setbacks) are especially susceptible. Fittingly, the cover of Johnson's book features George W. Bush in the famous flight suit, flashing an exuberant thumbs-up. -- Christopher Shea * New York Times Magazine *
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Harvard University Press Violence All Around
Book SynopsisA human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe before and after 9/11 to document abuses by warlords, terrorists, and counterterrorism forces. John Sifton reminds us that human rights advocates can only shame the world into better behavior; to invoke rights is to invoke the force to uphold them, including the very violence they deplore.Trade Review[Sifton’s] book chronicles the common experience of human-rights monitors everywhere. At this level alone the book is of value. Too little has been written about human-rights field workers, and Sifton performs a service in describing this little-known or -understood professional world. Sifton’s book, however, seeks to go much further. His experiences have propelled him to confront the nature of violence and to question whether in its face human-rights work can have any utility. In his exploration of these issues he weaves a remarkable blend of storytelling, philosophical and theological reflection, history, literature, personal reminiscence and political science… Taken as separate essays, the chapters are usually riveting: elegantly written, informative and displaying an impressive breadth off learning… Sifton’s book stands as a thought-provoking reflection in which he stays true to his motivation to ‘produce something positive and somehow reverse the greater negative sign that violence represents.’ -- Michael O’Flaherty * Irish Times *Violence All Around by John Sifton is a thoughtful, well-written book that is made stronger through Sifton’s personal anecdotes, as well as his own research into the history of violence… This is a wide-ranging, ambitious work that examines the notion of violence from a panoply of angles… It seems safe to assume that acts of terrorism (and violence) aren’t going away anytime soon, but a degree of reflection seems to be in order. Sifton’s detailed examination of violence forces readers to think more deeply about this important issue. -- Taylor Dibbert * Huffington Post *[Sifton’s] book is well-written and provides rich descriptions of what happens before, during, and after violence… He wants his audience to think further, not only about an act of violence or its immediate perpetrator… The book not only illuminates the work of human rights advocacy groups; it seeks to engage human rights professionals with historical contradictions and diverse philosophies of violence and nonviolence… An important [book]. -- Jonathan Horowitz * Huffington Post *John Sifton travels through the post–9/11 war zones of Afghanistan and the Middle East and digs deep into our enduring love affair with lethal force. Violence All Around is a thought-provoking reflection on the human condition. -- Andrew North, BBC South Asia correspondent
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Harvard University Press Southern Horrors
Book SynopsisBetween 1880 and 1930, some 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world, women defended themselves and challenged male power brokers. Feimster explores the racial politics of the postbellum South, focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence.Trade ReviewFeimster's compelling, and profoundly unsettling, history of rape and lynching illuminates the gendered racial politics of sexual violence in the aftermath of Emancipation. -- Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern UniversitySouthern Horrors, a chilling tale that has been largely suppressed until now, exposes lynching as a gendered phenomenon in which southern women played a central role as actors and as victims. This is a breakthrough analysis of the role that lynching served in southern political culture. -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950Feimster traces the lives of two political incendiaries, Ida B. Wells and Rebecca Felton, who illuminate the landscape of American race and gender politics. Brilliantly analytical, strikingly well-narrated, this monumental book masters theme and story to reveal heretofore hidden histories of the women who both played and transformed the politics of rape and lynching in the New South. -- Timothy B. Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True StoryThoughtful and engaging, Crystal Feimster's Southern Horrors forces us to rethink women's history and the history of the American South. Accessible to students and general readers, this powerful story is told with originality and sophistication. -- Suzanne Lebsock, author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on TrialSouthern Horrors, an impressive achievement, expands and deepens our understanding of the sexual and racial politics of the American South. Through the public careers of two women and a cast of thousands, Crystal Feimster compels us to grapple with the full dimensions of an American tragedy and the movements for change it set in motion. -- Leon F. Litwack, author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowFascinating...Feimster's account challenges us to think again about race and sexual politics...[A] rich and detailed account...The work of Rebecca Felton and Ida Wells engaged with the implications of a form (although not a unique one) of sexual politics, and Feimster's account should be rightly acclaimed as testament to these projects. -- Mary Evans * Times Higher Education *Historian Crystal N. Feimster provides an opportunity to better understand the lack of sympathy between black and white suffragists and how lynching spurred both to the political activism that eventually won women the vote...This account leaves us with a sense of what made the fights for racial equality and women's suffrage so complicated and contentious. We're left, too, with an appreciation of the gumption both Wells and Felton showed entering a political fray resistant to their participation and unable to conceive of changes that seem so obviously necessary in hindsight. -- Margaret Wheeler Johnson * Double X *An interesting, though somewhat disheartening, tale of the times, this book is destined for a special place in the classrooms and libraries of those concerned with sexual and racial politics. It is a readable study for those simply interested in the historical account, and is made so by multiple narratives of affected citizens, passages from diaries and newspapers, as well as the lives of the two main scholars. -- Allena Tapia * San Francisco Book Review *Table of Contents* Introduction: In Black and White *1. The Horrors of War *2. The Violent Transition from Freedom to Segregation *3. Southern White Women and the Anti-rape Movement *4. Organizing in Defense of Black Womanhood *5. New Southern Women and the Triumph of White Supremacy *6. The Lynching of Black and White Women *7. Equal Rights for Southern Women *8. The Gender and Racial Politics of the Anti-lynching Movement * Appendix: List of Female Victims of Lynching
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Harvard University Press A Pattern of Violence How the Law Classifies
Book SynopsisBefore the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice.Trade ReviewTimely and thoughtful, David Sklansky’s new book is a much-needed meditation on what violence is and how the law should respond to it. -- James Forman Jr., Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Locking Up Our OwnA Pattern of Violence is a must-read for anyone who wants to radically rethink our understanding of justice. In this singular book, David Sklansky takes us into courtrooms across America grappling with the problem of violent crimes. As importantly, he explains how we’ve come to understand violence itself—morally, ethically, and historically. -- Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill UsA Pattern of Violence offers a fresh take on some of the most vexing issues of our times, including police brutality, mass incarceration, and sexual assault. David Sklansky’s bold and lucid analysis disrupts the old ways of understanding how the law deals with race, gender, and crime, and points to how we can get closer to real justice. If, in H. Rap Brown’s enduring phrase, ‘violence is as American as cherry pie,’ Sklansky has written one great American book about it. -- Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst and author of Chokehold: Policing Black MenA stunning book of enormous learning, experience, and compassion, explaining how the role of violence as an idea has formed the law’s impact on race, gender, and class inequality. The ambition of the book connects centrally to the project of reframing what criminal justice might become. Sklansky is bold yet sensible, and his insights are game-changing. I wish I had been able to write this book. -- Jeannie Suk Gersen, author of At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming PrivacyThis sharply argued and thoughtful book shows how the law simultaneously over-punishes some forms of violence while ignoring others—such as acts committed by law enforcement. Anyone interested in achieving real police reform or dismantling mass incarceration should read this book by one of our most insightful experts on crime and policing. -- Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of PoliticsThis humane and sophisticated analysis breaks new ground in exploring how and why the U.S. criminal justice system needs to be reformed. * Publishers Weekly *Could not be more timely…Explores how confused, inconsistent, and often simply incorrect the law’s, and the public’s, views of violence are…An important reminder that politics are never immutable, even for something as emotional salient right now as violent behavior. -- John F. Pfaff * Law & Society Review *A timely contribution to our understanding of both violence as a concept and how the law should go about responding to violence…Offers a sweeping view of violence’s role in U.S. legal culture. -- Benjamin Levin * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *A Pattern of Violence succeeds in demonstrating both the fluidity of conceptions of violence and how fundamental they are to the US justice system…An important read for legal professionals, but the clarity of Sklansky’s style and argument makes it a widely accessible and engaging read. -- Ainsley Doell * Osgoode Hall Law Journal *
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Harvard University Press The Brethren
Book SynopsisIn 1777, North Carolina farmers planned a coup against local patriots. Brendan McConville shows they were motivated not by Crown loyalty but by love of individual and religious libertyas they understood them. Complicating revolutionary narratives, the plotters feared American independence would usher in the very tyranny it claimed to contest.Trade Review[McConville’s] use of archival and printed primary sources to discern thoughts and actions of obscure people [is] a rare feat…Important and well worth reading and discussing. -- Carole Watterson Troxler * North Carolina Historical Review *An engaging read. In addition to enlightening readers on issues affecting the yeoman population in the Revolution, this book will appeal particularly to those who are interested in religious history as well as aficionados of the Carolinas’ history. -- Kelly Mielke * Journal of the American Revolution *McConville’s study is the first to uncover the history of the Brethren, bringing this fascinating story to light…The Brethren is a great example of how scholars can use sparse sources and some imagination to craft a compelling narrative and argument. -- Savannah Flanagan * Past Tense Graduate Review of History *In this innovative and vivid history, McConville deploys deft and deep research to recover a long-hidden struggle within the American Revolution for the soul of a new nation. The Brethren reveals a contradictory, divisive, violent, and volatile revolution that pivoted on the allegiance of rural Christians alienated from the more secular leaders of their state. -- Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804McConville gives us an American Revolution we have never really seen. The Brethren demonstrates the hidden power of anti-Catholicism, loyalism, slave revolts, and a crucial conflict among patriots. It turns out that many ordinary Americans were determined to save their religion equally from King George III and from America’s own rationalist elite. -- Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionIn reconstructing the Lewellen conspiracy, McConville recovers the complexity and nuance of the American Revolution on the ground. This isn’t a story of idealistic Founding Fathers making the Enlightenment real, but of common people making sense of momentous changes. Written with great verve and flair, this book challenges our assumptions about the nature of the Revolution itself. -- Francis D. Cogliano, author of Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign PolicyMcConville provides a compact and elegant account of conspiratorial resistance to Revolutionary authority by alienated Anglicans in North Carolina, revealing important new perspectives on shifting religious and political orientations in the Revolution. Recovering a world unfamiliar, transient, and disconcerting, The Brethren amply repays readers interested in exploring the confused conflicts and abrupt dislocations of ordinary Americans during the Revolutionary crisis. -- Stephen A. Marini, author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England
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Princeton University Press Disarmed The Missing Movement for Gun Control in
Book SynopsisBased on historical archives, interviews, and a survey evidence, this title suggests that the gun control campaign has been stymied by a combination of factors, including the inability to secure patronage resources, difficulties in articulating a message that resonates with supporters, and strategic decisions made in the name of effective policy.Trade Review"Goss has written an excellent book, useful to all students of lobbying... This thoughtful, well-documented book should be read and examined by would-be gun control activists and other advocates for social reform."--Choice "Rarely does a book make a significant contribution to two separate fields, but this work by Kristin Goss does. Readers interested in social movements and social movement theory will find an interesting case study of a movement that never happened--efforts to strengthen gun control laws in the United States. Those who study gun control will encounter a unique perspective on the interest group politics and policy making of firearms regulation. Well-researched and clearly written, the book is insightful and informative. Goss's journalistic background is evident, both in her prose and in the relative brevity of the book. Her arguments are clearly elucidated in a first chapter that should serve as a model."--Harry L. Wilson, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii CHAPTER ONE: The Gun Control (Participation) Paradox 1 CHAPTER TWO: A Movement in Theory 31 CHAPTER THREE: Socializing Costs: Patronage and Political Participation 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Personalizing Benefits: Issue Frames and Political Participation 105 CHAPTER FIVE: Changing the Calculation: Policy Incrementalism and Political Participation 145 CHAPTER SIX: Mobilizing around Modest Measures: Three Cases 176 CHAPTER SEVEN: Conclusion: Politics, Participation, and Public Goods 190 Appendix A: Gun-Related Trends 201 Appendix B: Brief Case Studies of Other Social-Reform Movements 204 Appendix C: Survey of Million Mom March Participants 208 Notes 215 References 249 Index 271
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Princeton University Press Violence
Book SynopsisArgues that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. This book challenges standard views about the root causes of violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future. It guides readers into the disturbing world of human discord - from domestic abuse and schoolyard bullying to muggings, and armed conflicts.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association "Collins's Violence is a sourcebook for the oft-ignored and usually unseen obvious: We humans are bad at violence, even if civilization makes us a bit better at it."--David D. Laitin, Science "Violence is a rare academic work, with both a convincing reappraisal of its scholarly terrain, and enough accessibility and useful advice to attract laymen. The writing is clear and direct--sometimes with a welcome touch of the colloquial--and well illustrated with photographs and charts."--Graeme Wood, New York Sun "Offering a wealth of observations...Randall Collins's overall theory is neat: violence is not easy, hence relatively rare. It is a compelling argument."--Jane Kilby, Times Higher Education "Insofar as his analysis has sought to highlight its micro-situational aspects, he must be applauded. In the future, only interdisciplinary research will be able to approach this topic with the same vigor, and coherence as Collins has provided us in this book."--Paul Armstrong, Canadian Journal of Sociology "The book is a superb commentary on how the emotional energy created by the situation of forward panic produces violence... Collin's exhaustive treatment of the forward panic is a major contribution to the literature and the term is certain to become a standard part of our vocabulary on violence."--John M. Hagedorn, Anthropos "Professor Collins has initiated a much needed discussion of violence, unencumbered by myth and make-believe... After reading this excellent and highly readable volume, there are few myths left remain standing!"--P. A. J. Waddington, Policing "[T]he book is a notable attempt to develop a general sociological theory of interpersonal violence, and anyone interested in violence and peace can learn a great deal from it."--Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research "[A] deeply learned, thoughtful, and erudite book... [T]he complexity of thought and the clarity of exposition of this first volume leave the reader both fulfilled and eager. Like the greatest of classical sociological thinkers, Collins is both pointillist and abstract expressionist, synthesizing micro and macro, and always asserting the power of the social."--Michael Kimmel, American Journal of Sociology "Violence overturns standard views about the root causes of violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future."--World Book IndustryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1: The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations 1 Violent Situations 1 Micro-evidence: Situational Recordings, Reconstructions, and Observations 3 Comparing Situations across Types of Violence 8 Fight Myths 10 Violent Situations Are Shaped by an Emotional Field of Tension and Fear 19 Alternative Theoretical Approaches 20 Historical Evolution of Social Techniques for Controlling Confrontational Tension 25 Sources 29 Preview 32 The Complementarity of Micro and Macro Theories 34 PART ONE: The Dirty Secrets of Violence 37 Chapter 2: Confrontational Tension and Incompetent Violence 39 Brave, Competent and Evenly Matched? 39 The Central Reality: Confrontational Tension 41 Tension/Fear and Non-performance in Military Combat 43 Low Fighting Competence 57 Friendly Fire and Bystander Hits 59 Joy of Combat: Under What Conditions? 66 The Continuum of Tension/Fear and Combat Performance 68 Confrontational Tension in Policing and Non-Military Fighting 70 Fear of What? 73 Chapter 3: Forward Panic 83 Confrontational Tension and Release: Hot Rush, Piling On, Overkill 89 Atrocities of War 94 Caveat: The Multiple Causation of Atrocities 99 Asymmetrical Entrainment of Forward Panic and Paralyzed Victims 102 Forward Panics and One-Sided Casualties in Decisive Battles 104 Atrocities of Peace 112 Crowd Violence 115 Demonstrators and Crowd-Control Forces 121 The Crowd Multiplier 128 Alternatives to Forward Panic 132 Chapter 4: Attacking the Weak: I. Domestic Abuse 134 The Emotional Definition of the Situation 134 Background and Foreground Explanations 135 Abusing the Exceptionally Weak: Time-patterns from Normalcy to Atrocity 137 Three Pathways: Normal Limited Conflict, Severe Forward Panic, and Terroristic Torture Regime 141 Negotiating Interactional Techniques of Violence and Victimhood 148 Chapter 5: Attacking the Weak: II. Bullying, Mugging, and Holdups 156 The Continuum of Total Institutions 165 Muggings and Holdups 174 Battening on Interactional Weakness 186 PART TWO: Cleaned-up and Staged Violence 191 Chapter 6: Staging Fair Fights 193 Hero versus Hero 194 Audience Supports and Limits on Violence 198 Fighting Schools and Fighting Manners 207 Displaying Risk and Manipulating Danger in Sword and Pistol Duels 212 The Decline of Elite Dueling and Its Replacement by the Gunfight 220 Honor without Fairness: Vendettas as Chains of Unbalanced Fights 223 Ephemeral Situational Honor and Leap-Frog Escalation to One-Gun Fights 226 Behind the Fac,ade of Honor and Disrespect 229 The Cultural Prestige of Fair and Unfair Fights 237 Chapter 7: Violence as Fun and Entertainment 242 Moral Holidays 243 Looting and Destruction as Participation Sustainers 245 The Wild Party as Elite Potlatch 253 Carousing Zones and Boundary Exclusion Violence 256 End-Resisting Violence 259 Frustrated Carousing and Stirring up Effervescence 261 Paradox: Why Does Most Intoxication Not Lead to Violence? 263 The One-Fight-Per-Venue Limitation 270 Fighting as Action and Fun 274 Mock Fights and Mosh Pits 277 Chapter 8: Sports Violence 282 Sports as Dramatically Contrived Conflicts 283 Game Dynamics and Player Violence 285 Winning by Practical Skills for Producing Emotional Energy Dominance 296 The Timing of Player Violence: Loser-Frustration Fights and Turning-Point Fights 302 Spectators' Game-Dependent Violence 307 Offsite Fans' Violence: Celebration and Defeat Riots 311 Offsite Violence as Sophisticated Technique: Soccer Hooligans 315 The Dramatic Local Construction of Antagonistic Identities 324 Revolt of the Audience in the Era of Entertainers' Domination 328 PART THREE: Dynamics and Structure of Violent Situations 335 Chapter 9: How Fights Start, or Not 337 Normal Limited Acrimony: Griping, Whining, Arguing, Quarreling 338 Boasting and Blustering 345 The Code of the Street: Institutionalized Bluster and Threat 348 Pathways into the Tunnel of Violence 360 Chapter 10: The Violent Few 370 Small Numbers of the Actively and Competently Violent 370 Confrontation Leaders and Action-Seekers: Police 375 Who Wins? 381 Military Snipers: Concealed and Absorbed in Technique 381 Fighter Pilot Aces: Aggressively Imposing Momentum 387 In the Zone versus the Glaze of Combat: Micro-situational Techniques of Interactional Dominance 399 The 9/11 Cockpit Fight 409 11. Violence as Dominance in Emotional Attention Space 413 What Does the Rest of the Crowd Do? 413 Violence without Audiences: Professional Killers and Clandestine Violence 430 Confrontation-Minimizing Terrorist Tactics 440 Violent Niches in Confrontational Attention Space 448 Epilogue Practical Conclusions 463 Notes 467 References 527 Index 555
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Princeton University Press Against Security How We Go Wrong at Airports
Book SynopsisThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of cTrade ReviewWinner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Mr. Molotch ... present(s) a vivid picture of the ways in which poorly designed security measures can deform everyday life and defeat themselves."--Jordan Ellenberg, Wall Street Journal "America's obsession with safety makes us angry, alienated, and ultimately less safe, argues this penetrating study of public security. Sociologist Molotch criticizes a range of security structures and protocols: airport security gates that require useless and humiliating body searches while generating long lines that make tempting targets for terrorists; ill-conceived New Orleans water projects that precipitated the Hurricane Katrina flood, and the militarized disaster response that further endangered residents. Even gender-segregated public restrooms (co-ed restrooms, he contends, would be more convenient and safer for women). Molotch recommends simple hardware and procedural improvements, from better stairways and signage to assist evacuations to customer-service regimens that help employees spot trouble. More than that, he argues for a conceptual shift away from rigid, rule-bound 'command and control' toward a security philosophy that empowers ordinary people to handle crises through spontaneous order and mutual aid. Molotch shrewdly analyzes the ways in which anxious, stressed-out people interact with their physical and social environments in a lively, engaging prose that skewers the verities of the post-9/11 security state. The result is a far-reaching re-examination of our culture of public fear, one that stands conventional wisdom on its head."--Publishers Weekly "The author is concerned with the complex systems that permit us to feel safe in public places. He traces a path from public toilet facilities through subways and airports to the reconstruction of Ground Zero before taking on the catastrophic effects of nature in the hurricane damage and flooding of New Orleans in 2005. Molotch treats each phase of the narrative separately and considers the design and organization of space, entries, and exits, fields of vision and patterns of activity, whether encouraged or not. The author's approach to public spaces as an environment permits an insightful, provocative treatment of whether the security we seek is fostered or not--and if so, how... A humane, well-researched examination of privacy and security issues."--Kirkus Reviews "Against Security is an interesting book that will appeal to all sorts of readers, published by a prestigious academic press, and retaining some of the trappings of a serious academic study. It never falters in presenting interesting and thought-provoking stories, which will make it attractive to an audience much broader than social scientists."--David E. Spiro, New York Journal of Books "Terrorism is the weapon of the disaffected; it has been invented; it cannot be disinvented. Public pressure and the politicians' need to be seen to 'do something' will bring more security counter-measures. Molotch is right to say that their conduct must be improved."--Omar Malik, Times Higher Education "In Against Security, Molotch takes aim at a 'command-and-control' approach to subway and airport safety, flood protection, and the war on terror. He makes a compelling case that security requires 'considered judgments based on empirical evidence cleansed of anxieties of fear and vengeance.' And he suggests specific changes, small and large, to enhance safety without diminishing civil liberties or the everyday enjoyment of life, that deserve our attention."--Barron's "Molotch is not anti-security; he calls for and offers some suggestions for better designs and architecture. A challenging book, then, to spark thought among all security people."--Professional Security Magazine "A lot of psychological research has tried to make sense out of security, fear, risk, and safety. But however fascinating the academic literature is, it often misses the broader social dynamics. New York University's Harvey Molotch helpfully brings a sociologist's perspective to the subject in his new book Against Security."--Bruce Schneier, Reason "This is one of the most significant volumes available highlighting alternatives to the paranoia surrounding the war on terror, and it deserves a place on the shelf of all academic libraries."--Choice "Against Security is worth the price of admission for Molotch's analysis of the TSA's airport screening system... Reading Against Security is a terrific way for us to re-examine our assumptions and our methods. This is a book that both informs about the microsystems of airport screening, subway platforms, and public restrooms while making us think about the larger societal tradeoffs we make to ensure our safety."--InsideHigherEd.com "Molotch's ... commitment to exploring positive alternatives advances a global debate--one that has only just begun--over the need to invent genuinely progressive arts of security."--Austin Zeiderman, Public Books "Though meticulously well informed by his own research and relevant academic references, Molotch writes refreshingly and appropriately for a general audience that knows the frustration of going through an airport--the perversity of restrictions that delay, dull the fun, or deflect from the task in hand, all in the name of some specious security... Some sociologists, including those contributing to newer fields such as security studies and surveillance studies, need to hear Molotch's message."--David Lyon, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his is a welcome and readable book."--Professional SecurityTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition ix Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Introduction: Colors of Security 1 Chapter 2 Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control 22 Chapter 3 Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out with Noah McClain 50 Chapter 4 Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away 85 Chapter 5 Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero 128 Chapter 6 Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build 154 Chapter 7 Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency 192 Notes 225 Index 251
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Princeton University Press In Harms Way The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Book SynopsisArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in ArquitectoTrade ReviewWinners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "An important ethnography that, with a focus on social relations and not on individuals, meaningfully advances our understandings of violence and the lives of impoverished dwellers. As with good books, this one also inspires reflection and questions, perhaps for future research."--Cecilia Menjivar, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 El Barrio and La Feria: Daily Life at the Urban Margins 30 Chapter 2 Born amid Bullets: Concatenated Violence(s) 66 Chapter 3 The State at the Margins 108 Chapter 4 Ethics and Politics amid Violence 135 Conclusion: Toward a Political Sociology of Urban Marginality 161 Acknowledgments 181 Methodological Appendix 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 207 Index 239
£31.50
Princeton University Press Communities of Violence
Book SynopsisIn the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia). He argues that these attacks--ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes--were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history, kinship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society. Nirenberg''s readings of archival Trade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 1996 Premio del Rey Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 1998 Best First Book in Iberian History Award, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Winner of the 2000 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America "Nirenberg's argument is elegant and precise... [His] superb scholarship has done a great service in a matter of great importance, and not only to historians."--Edward Peters, Historian "[This book] is written with a stylistic flair that makes it a pleasure to read, a model of historical research and exposition at its best."--Marc Saperstein, American Historical Review "Nirenberg has ventured unescorted down all manner of unexplored paths... This is a highly sophisticated piece of work, clever in the best sense of the word, rich and variegated, a treasure-house of perceptive scholarship, sensitively nuanced, beautifully controlled, a delight to handle and a joy to read."--Peter Linehan, Medium AevumTable of ContentsPreface to the New Paperback Edition vii Acknowledgements xvii Abbreviations xix Introduction 3 Chapter One The Historical Background 18 Part One Cataclysmic Violence: France and the Crown of Aragon Chapter Two France, Source of the Troubles: Shepherds' Crusade and Lepers' Plot (1320, 1321) 43 Chapter Three Crusade and Massacre in Aragon (1320) 69 Chapter Four Lepers, Jews, Muslims, and Poison in the Crown (1321) 93 Part Two: Systemic Violence: Power, Sex, and Religion Chapter Five Sex and Violence between Majority and Minority 127 Chapter Six Minorities Confron Each Other: Violence between Muslims and Jews 166 Chapter Seven The Two Faces of Sacred Violence 200 Epilogue The Black Death and Beyond 231 Bibliography of Works Cited 251 Index 281
£21.25
Princeton University Press The Management of Hate
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2017 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological Association""Honorable Mention for the 2017 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology""Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology""As a study of the political self-understanding and everyday lives of young right-wing extremism in the outskirts of the former East Berlin, Shoshan’s study is very much worth reading."---John Abromeit, German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xix Part I 1 A Specter of Nationalism 3 Taming the Demons 6 The National Remains 10 New Poor, Old Ghosts 15 On the Streets of Treptow-Kopenick 21 2 East and West , Right and Left 29 Young, National, Social 32 Imagining Ossis 38 Grandpa Was SS, Dad Was Stasi 42 3 The Kebab and the Wurst 55 The Beer at Little Istanbul Tastes Better 56 Distinctions in the Landscape of Otherness 64 Talking Immigrants 71 Everything in Moderation 79 Part II 4 Penal Regimes of Political Delinquency 87 "There Shall Be No Censorship" 91 Legal (In)distinctions 99 Indeterminate Injunctions 114 5 The State Inside 117 Police Overkill 124 Men of Confidence 129 Friends and Traitors 133 Cops and Thieves 137 6 Knowing Intimately 141 A Close Call, or, The Occult Paths of Knowledge 144 The Surveillance Machine 149 The Ethics and Praxis of Street Social Work 154 Governance Up Close 159 7 Advances in the Sciences of Exorcism 169 Etiologies 173 Facing the Facts 176 The Rational Kernel 182 If It Walks Like a Nazi 188 The Nationalist Thing 192 Part III 8 Inoculating the National Public 199 A Civilizing Mission 204 Building Coalitions 209 Whose Demonstration? 214 Crafting Resilience 221 9 National Visions 227 Stars over Berlin 227 Reading the Stars 230 Heterotopic Landscapes 232 Tactics of Visibility 237 Just Mourning 248 Catastrophe at the Gate 251 Afterword 261 Bibliography 269 Index 291
£28.80
Princeton University Press What Makes a Terrorist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What are the individual and societal causes of terrorism? The book's great strength is its focus on new sources of data examined in new ways. The most compelling analysis in the book is of biographical information on operatives from Hezbollah and Hamas. This is a substantial contribution, offering insight into who becomes a terrorist and, as important, pushing terrorism studies in a productive new direction, toward microlevel data. The book provides a valuable service in dispelling the stereotype of the poor, ignorant terrorist."--Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Science "It seems universally obvious that poverty and poor education breed terrorism. But it's wrong... [Alan Krueger] went in search of evidence for the terrorism part of the proposition and found next to none. He has set out his findings in What Makes A Terrorist."--Peter Martin, Canberra Times "This new book by Alan Krueger, full of first-rate empirical work, punctures many myths about terrorism."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "[Krueger] seeks to put the risks Americans face from terrorism into 'proper perspective' with his unique book."--John McCaslin, Washington Times "What Makes a Terrorist brings together disparate data, such as academic studies and government reports, arraying them into a concise, accessible argument against the notion that we can defeat terrorism through aid and education. While Krueger is careful to affirm that these are useful in combating many social ills, he is adamant that terrorism is not one of them. He offers skilled analysis to show that an aggressive foreign policy based on this fallacious assumption has cost several nations dearly and also warns that continuing along this course may provoke further terrorist acts."--Tony Azios, Christian Science Monitor "Using raw data from government, academic, and think-tank sources and citing the work of other economists on poverty, race, terrorism, and hate crimes, Krueger explains in clear and accessible prose that the average terrorist suspect is highly educated, professionally employed, from a middle- or higher-class background, and, most important, from a country that suppresses civil liberties... Avoiding jargon whenever possible and defining it when unavoidable, Krueger excels in making his difficult subject easy to grasp without reducing its inherent complexity. The occasional pop culture reference (e.g., to the Daily Show) adds to the appeal. Highly recommended for both academic and public collections."--April Younglove, Library Journal (starred review) "What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated."--Thomas P.M. Barnett, Knoxville News Sentinel "[Krueger] analyzed data from NCTC and elsewhere, and came up with often counter-intuitive findings... Krueger's book collects comprehensive evidence."--Zack Phillips, Government Executive "An invaluable little book... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists."--Daniel Finkelstein, Times (London) "Krueger's book is a necessary read for anyone who wishes to understand terrorism, especially because many of the popular notions of what causes it are not rooted in reality. One wishes that politicians, especially, would pay attention."--Amit Varma, Live Mint "[Krueger] in his groundbreaking new book, What Makes a Terrorist, enlists the 'dismal science' to tackle the despicable one. Provocative, dispassionate and accessible, Krueger's book is a breath of fresh air in the stifling climate of empty speculation that dominates the terror dialogue in post-9/11 America."--Ryan Hagen, Brooklyn Rail "To challenge the widespread view that terrorism is caused by economic deprivation and lack of education, Krueger redirects thinking about terrorism by raising three provocative questions that can be answered by scrutiny of evidence from an economic perspective... Krueger shows how complex the data and issues are, the dangers of moving from correlation to cause--and how to think clearly and courageously about politically motivated violence."--L.J. Alderink, Choice "I am quite sure that this book will be very widely read; it builds on recent literature by both Krueger and a young breed of scholars who have used technical sophistication to disprove the expected positive effect of poverty and ignorance on terrorism."--Siddhartha Mitra, Eastern Economic Journal "[E]minently readable and informative."--Ira Smolensky, Magill Book Reviews Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "In this beautifully written book, one of the world's most respected economists tackles the question of terrorism. Krueger's work represents the most careful data-driven research ever done in this area. This is a book that a lay audience will read and enjoy, but with a rigor and depth that will inform the experts in the field. This is timely and important work which should play a critical role in shaping our public policies on terrorism."--Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "Alan Krueger ... has done pathbreaking research on why so many terrorists come from middle-class backgrounds."--David Leonhardt, New York Times Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "Full of first-rate empirical work."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "Economist Alan Krueger ... explores this phenomenon with a systematic study of the evidence... All in all, the research that Krueger gathers together suggests that if there is a link between poverty, education and terrorism, it is the opposite of the one popularly assumed."--Tim Harford, Financial Times Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "An invaluable little book... [U]ses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism."--Daniel Finkelstein, Times (London) Praise for What Makes a Terrorist: "This book is a model of how academics can contribute to major public policy debates."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
£19.80
Princeton University Press Policing the Second Amendment
Book Synopsis"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Trade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""No one who reads this [book] will doubt that the Second Amendment has particularly deadly dimensions in minority communities." * Kirkus Reviews *"[E]xamines how the National Rifle Association became a driving influence behind American policing for over a century, and emerges with the idea that policing America has not overcome its racially charged beginning."---RJ Young, New York Times Book Review"This book provides a warning to those police scholars who tend to blindly embrace community policing as the panacea of police reform and an answer to racially biased policing."---David E. Barlow, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Chilling and insightful. . . .Carlson succinctly argues that attitudes about race, most specifically attitudes about African Americans, overwhelm rational debates about law gun use, gun ownership, and the 2nd Amendment itself, specifically within the law enforcement community. Importantly, Carlson brings together an academically rigorous analysis with clear and engaging writing accessible to a wide-ranging audience. For those willing to engage in good-faith debates about gun policy, Carlson’s work provides helpful insights and perspectives."---Staci L. Beavers, Law and Politics Book Review
£21.25
Princeton University Press What Makes a Terrorist
Book Synopsis"Krueger proves...that terrorists are not desperately poor killers but well-educated politicians using violence to draw attention to their 'market'--violent change."--Hernando de Soto, author of The Mystery of Capital. Features a new Introduction by the author.he author.Trade Review"Pathbreaking."—David Leonhardt, New York Times"The most careful data-driven research ever done in this area."—Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics"Full of first-rate empirical work."—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"The book provides a valuable service in dispelling the stereotype of the poor, ignorant terrorist."—Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Science"This book is a model of how academics can contribute to major public policy debates."—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs"[What Makes a Terrorist] enlists the 'dismal science' to tackle the despicable one. Provocative, dispassionate and accessible, Krueger's book is a breath of fresh air in the stifling climate of empty speculation that dominates the terror dialogue in post-9/11 America."—Ryan Hagen, Brooklyn Rail
£16.19
Princeton University Press Hate in the Homeland
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In her disturbing book Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss argues convincingly that “innovative, flexible and youth-driven ideas” are vital in the battle to counter the online transnational recruiting of fascist zealots."---Martin Chilton, The Independent"A timely book that calls for vigilance against extremism in hitherto unexpected corners, online and off." * Kirkus Reviews *"This is an incredible book . . . that I found impossible to put down. Miller-Idriss has put it together here; the actors, the methods, and the history." * Jason Stanley on Twitter *"In Hate in the Homeland Cynthia Miller-Idriss describes how ideas once limited to extremist circles, such as that of a 'demographic replacement'—whereby American citizens will be overrun—are now promoted by mainstream figures such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News." * The Economist *"Miller-Idriss explains [how] the market for hate is thriving."---Eric Spitznagel, New York Post"Hate in the Homeland locates the issue within a broader analytic context and opens avenues for scholars to develop more fulsome conceptualizations of radicalization and recruitment into far-right extremist ideologies."---Kelsey C. Boismier, Symbolic Interactions"Hate in the Homeland is an important contribution to our understandings of the places and spaces in which young people encounter extremist messages. The author does an excellent job of guiding readers through what can be a tricky epistemological terrain, providing a comprehensive, accessible and thoughtful overview of what the far right is, what they believe and the places and spaces they inhabit. The book will undoubtedly prove very useful to scholars working in the field as well as readers unfamiliar with the topic."---Katherine Williams, London School of Economics Review of Books"Hate in the Homeland is the best account I have read so far on how extensive the mainstreaming of the far right is."---Katrine Fangen, Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift"It is an important book for anyone trying to piece together what has been happening for the past few years and what can be done about it, because the far right is trending, and it sure shows no sign of withering away."---Axelle Germanaz, Amerikastudien
£21.25
Princeton University Press A Site of Struggle
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association"
£31.50
Princeton University Press Policing the Second Amendment
Book Synopsis"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Trade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""No one who reads this [book] will doubt that the Second Amendment has particularly deadly dimensions in minority communities." * Kirkus Reviews *"[E]xamines how the National Rifle Association became a driving influence behind American policing for over a century, and emerges with the idea that policing America has not overcome its racially charged beginning."---RJ Young, New York Times Book Review"This book provides a warning to those police scholars who tend to blindly embrace community policing as the panacea of police reform and an answer to racially biased policing."---David E. Barlow, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Chilling and insightful. . . .Carlson succinctly argues that attitudes about race, most specifically attitudes about African Americans, overwhelm rational debates about law gun use, gun ownership, and the 2nd Amendment itself, specifically within the law enforcement community. Importantly, Carlson brings together an academically rigorous analysis with clear and engaging writing accessible to a wide-ranging audience. For those willing to engage in good-faith debates about gun policy, Carlson’s work provides helpful insights and perspectives."---Staci L. Beavers, Law and Politics Book Review
£16.19
Princeton University Press Hate in the Homeland
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In her disturbing book Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss argues convincingly that “innovative, flexible and youth-driven ideas” are vital in the battle to counter the online transnational recruiting of fascist zealots."---Martin Chilton, The Independent"A timely book that calls for vigilance against extremism in hitherto unexpected corners, online and off." * Kirkus Reviews *"This is an incredible book . . . that I found impossible to put down. Miller-Idriss has put it together here; the actors, the methods, and the history." * Jason Stanley on Twitter *"In Hate in the Homeland Cynthia Miller-Idriss describes how ideas once limited to extremist circles, such as that of a 'demographic replacement'—whereby American citizens will be overrun—are now promoted by mainstream figures such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News." * The Economist *"Miller-Idriss explains [how] the market for hate is thriving."---Eric Spitznagel, New York Post"Hate in the Homeland locates the issue within a broader analytic context and opens avenues for scholars to develop more fulsome conceptualizations of radicalization and recruitment into far-right extremist ideologies."---Kelsey C. Boismier, Symbolic Interactions"Hate in the Homeland is an important contribution to our understandings of the places and spaces in which young people encounter extremist messages. The author does an excellent job of guiding readers through what can be a tricky epistemological terrain, providing a comprehensive, accessible and thoughtful overview of what the far right is, what they believe and the places and spaces they inhabit. The book will undoubtedly prove very useful to scholars working in the field as well as readers unfamiliar with the topic."---Katherine Williams, London School of Economics Review of Books"Hate in the Homeland is the best account I have read so far on how extensive the mainstreaming of the far right is."---Katrine Fangen, Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift"It is an important book for anyone trying to piece together what has been happening for the past few years and what can be done about it, because the far right is trending, and it sure shows no sign of withering away."---Axelle Germanaz, Amerikastudien
£16.19
Princeton University Press Legal Order in a Violent World
£80.75
Rlpg/Galleys Moving Safely
Book SynopsisA sustainable city enables the fulfillment of the mobility needs of its citizens via accessible, reliable and safe transportation systems. Safety is one of many factors influencing the mobility of individuals in urban environments. Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm's Subway Stations aims to provide both theoretical and empirical perspectives on safety conditions at subway stations. The book adopts an approach that is place-centered, looking upon those who travel through the system and who may become a victim of crime. Safety at transportation nodes is not a field for one science only; it demands the combination of cross-disciplinary theories (urban criminology, architecture, geography, transportation and urban planning) as well as integrated methods that are capable of dealing with an ever-increasing volume of data. Adopting a whole journey approach to safety, the book offers suggestions on how to plan safety at subway stations with a variety of passengers' needs. Although these suggestions are not the first ones in the literature, certainly they are new in terms of relying on findings from hypothesis testing and spatial data from a Scandinavian city. Moving Safely is relevant for experts in safety and transportation research, including criminologists, planners, transportation engineers, architects as well as professionals dealing directly with safety interventions.Trade ReviewMoving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety In Stockholm's Subway Stations provides important and additional support for the introduction of measures designed to reduce crime and disorder and make people feel safer using transit. As safety is likely the primary factor in the decision of a non-transit dependent person to take or not to take transit, knowledge of crime and how to prevent it is essential for transit professionals. * About.Com *This is a book of substance and depth, pushing beyond the current literature to help us understand transit crime and local crime in general. Ceccato covers and links multiple literatures and helps us relate crime to the flows of daily life. These principles apply beyond any one city or country. -- Marcus Felson, Texas State UniversityFocusing on Stockholm subway system, this comprehensive and thought-provoking book explores almost every aspect of safety at transport nodes—the very places where people enter and exit the underground network. Being safe and feeling safe is affected not only by the physical characteristics of the stations themselves but also by what surrounds them and where they are located in the city. As well as presenting an evidence-based analysis of safety on a subway system, this book also suggests how practical measures can alter crime risks and perceptions of safety to improve the quality of the passenger experience. Although Stockholm-centered, the book clearly has relevance to subway systems in large metropolitan areas, particularly in North America and Europe. It is essential reading for criminologists, architects, transport planners, and geographers but most importantly, passengers, for whom subways should offer a chance to move freely around the city and to go about their daily lives in safety, comfort, and with peace of mind. -- Alex Hirschfield, University of HuddersfieldA welcome addition to the literature on safety and security in public spaces, Ceccato draws on her intensive field-based research into the Stockholm subway system to craft a book that will appeal to academics for its conceptual robustness and to planners for the practical insights it offers. -- Robert Haining, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mobility and safety Chapter 3: Transportation nodes and the city Chapter 4: The emergence in criminology of safety in transportation nodes Chapter 5: A conceptual framework for safety in subway stations Chapter 6: The Stockholm’s subway stations Chapter 7: Crime and the environment in Stockholm’s subway stations Chapter 8: Patterns of perceived safety in Stockholm’s subway stations Chapter 9: The rhythms of crime at Stockholm’s subway stations Chapter 10: Lessons from Stockholm’s subway stations Chapter 11: Making transportation nodes safer Chapter 12: A research agenda for safety at transportation nodes References Definitions Appendices Index About the author
£76.95
Pluto Press After Grenfell
Book SynopsisActivists, academics and artists deliver a myriad of views on the fire for which there has been no justiceTrade Review'No other account names those to blame so clearly, or so convincingly uncovers the slow violence, the racist attitudes, and the legacy of empire that led to this disaster' -- Danny Dorling, author of 'Inequality and the 1%'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface – Phil Scraton Introduction – Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany Grenfell Tower, June, 2017 – Ben Okri 1. Everyday Life and Death in the Global City – Dan Bulley 2. Organising on Mute – Daniel Renwick Photo Essay – Sam Boal 3. Before Grenfell: British Immigration Law and the Production of Colonial Spaces – Nadine El-Enany 4. Struggles for Social Housing Justice – Radical Housing Network, Becka Hudson and Pilgrim Tucker Ghosts of Grenfell – Lowkey 5. A Border in Every Street: Grenfell and the Hostile Environment – Sarah Keenan Photo Essay – Parveen Ali 6. Grenfell on Screen – Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Law, Justice and the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire – Patricia Tuitt The Interloper – Jenny Edkins 8. From Grenfell to Windrush – Gracie Mae Bradley 9. Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell – Nigel de Noronha Photo Essay – Yolanthe Fawehinmi 10. ComeUnity and Community in the Face of Impunity – Monique Charles Equity – Tony Walsh Afterword: The Fire and the Academy – Robbie Shilliam Notes on the Contributors Index
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