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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection leading experts and scholars from criminology, psychology, law and history provide a compelling analysis of practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name 'honour'.Trade Review“The result is an interdisciplinary, comprehensive and unique collection which will provide practitioners, women’s groups, development workers, policy-makers, academics, students and researchers with a range of ideas and analyses on which to draw. … this book is an extremely useful addition to the academic and policy literature and to engendering social change for women across the world in terms of the horror of ‘honour’ violence and killings.” (Gill Hague, Gender & Development, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2015)'Honour' Killing and Violence is an important resource for academics, practitioners and students working in the areas of gender-based violence internationally and within Britain. This well-written volume provides coverage of a number of important issues and contexts, including law and policy; and community and state responses in Britain, Europe, India and North America. It also benefits from its interdisciplinarity: the contributors use skills from a range of academic disciplines, including history, economics, law, criminology and psychology, to look at this issue, and together they provide a coherent and timely dialogue that will provide fresh and fascinating insight into the topical issue of 'honour' killing and violence.' Dr Geetanjali Gangoli, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, UK 'The chapters in 'Honour' Killing and Violence bring an invaluable, interdisciplinary perspective to a topic that incites debates characterised more by heat than light. The contributors to this volume do not shy away from these controversies, which is what makes it so timely. At the same time, they do not allow those controversies to limit their analyses to well-trodden ground and blind alleys, which is why the volume is so illuminating. The chapters rely on original empirical evidence and argumentation informed by anthropology, criminology, legal reasoning, history, political science and psychology to urge a multilevel, multicausal approach to understanding honour violence and responses to it. No matter how much you think you know about 'honour'-based violence, you will learn something new and question some of your assumptions about it by reading this book.' Professor Rosemary Gartner, Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada 'A worldwide investigation into a worldwide problem Gill, Strange and Roberts' collection is an excellent place to learn about current international efforts in the area of 'honour' killings and violence.' Professor Nicole Westmarland, Co-Director, Durham Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse, University of Durham, UK 'The contributions in this book skilfully analyse the intersectionality between gender, discrimination, violence and cultural notions of honour, and their interrelatedness in the killings of women. Gender-related killings are not isolated incidents that arise suddenly and unexpectedly, but are often the ultimate act of violence in a continuum of gender-based discrimination and violence.' Ms Rashida Manjoo, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, South AfricaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword; Professor Lynn Welchman Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction: 'Honour' and 'Honour'-based Violence: Challenging Common Assumptions; Aisha K. Gill PART I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 2. Domestic Violence or Cultural Tradition? Approaches to 'Honour Killing' as Species and Sub-species in English Legal Practice; Rupa Reddy 3. Adjusting the Lens of Honour-based Violence: Perspectives from Euro-American History; Carolyn Strange 4. Towards a Psychologically Oriented Motivational Model of Honour Based Violence; Karl Roberts 5. Honour as Property; Johanna Bond 6. (Dis)honour, Death and Duress in the Courtroom; Jocelynne A. Scutt PART II: OPERATIONALISING PRACTICES OF HONOUR AND VIOLENCE 7. Conceptualising HBV in Scandinavian Law Enforcement; Anja Bredal 8. 'If there were no khaps, …everything will go haywire…young boys and girls will start marrying into the same gotra'- Understanding khap-directed Honour Killings in North India; Suruchi Thapar-Björkert 9. 'All they think about is honour': The Murder of Shafilea Ahmed; Aisha K. Gill 10. Same Problem, Different Solutions: The Case of 'honour killing' in Germany and Britain; Selen Ayirtman Ercan 11. No Place in Canada': Triumphant Discourses, Murdered Women, and the 'Honour Crime'; Dana Mohammed Olwan

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Book SynopsisMuch like gravity, the law of attraction is a natural law of the universe, and one that governs every interaction you ever have. You can only attract into your experience those things that resonate with you on an emotional and or vibrational level. It is no coincidence that women who marry alcoholics had alcoholic fathers, grandfathers or uncles. What a child experiences in childhood determines that beings emotional set point; their point of attraction. If your childhood was full of pain, it is not by chance that your adult life experiences are just as painful. This book uses the principles of the law of attraction to help you move past your past. It is a must read for anyone struggling with addictions, troubling relationships, codependency and or other negative personal issues. This book has the potential to heal the world on a global level, as it reveals the true hidden secrets of the law of attraction and how to harness its power to transform people from all walks of life for the better. Healing, abundance, peace and joy are your birthright. Unravel the mystery of your vibrational nature and manifest the truest desires of your heart by applying the knowledge contained in this powerful book. There is nothing you cannot overcome by applying the secrets contained in this book to your own circumstances. Learn how to take control over your emotional and vibrational nature so to help re-create your point of attraction, so you can have the life you have always dreamed of.

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Book SynopsisAnimals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.Trade ReviewIn this breakthrough volume, leading animal rights activists and peace anti-war activists shed a crucial light on the important connection between critical animal studies and peace studies. The leading scholar-activists in this volume are at the cutting edge of the struggle to resist the exploitation of nonhuman animals in the military. All social justice educators and activists would do well to read this book! -- Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, ChinaIn a world that has seemed to value things over life/people, this book brings to the public’s notice the often unheard voice of animal—animals who are treated in inhumane ways just to continue the war machine. This book gives us a much-needed insight into an area of study rarely gone. Animals and War is the premier reader for animal studies and violence. -- Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Chicago and author of "The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rimbs, Timbs, & A Cultural Theology"Animals and War is an eye-opening exploration of the profoundly destructive consequences of human chauvinism on nonhuman populations, and indeed the entire planet. This book is extraordinary in its theoretical depth and breadth, and in its engagement with the material reality of systematized death dealing and suffering, and yet it manages to inspire both hope and action. -- David Naguib Pellow, University of California Santa Barbara, author of Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth MovementAnimals and War offers a holistic and in-depth analysis of the important social and military contributions nonhuman animals play, a contribution all too frequently born in blood and exploitation. This book represents the best of the emerging literature and facilitates new strides in critical animal studies and peace studies. -- Jason J. Campbell, Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied ResearchOne day, thanks in part to books like these, we will stop saying, 'Let’s respect each other, for we are all human beings' and say, 'Let’s respect each other, for we are all living beings. Peace begins at breakfast with what’s on our plates.' -- Ingrid Newkirk, president, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)Animals and War is a wonderfully original contribution to the world of activism, social justice, and peace studies. An enlightening read for everyone! -- Jason Del Gandio, author of "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists"Animals and War is a seminal book for those who oppose war, those who fight for animal liberation, and those who do both. This essay collection powerfully exposes the use of animals as unwitting instruments and casualties of the battles that humans continue to wage against each other. Animals and War demands that all give attention to the ways in which manifestations of abuse, exploitation and domination are interwoven during war time, and it serves as a much needed rallying cry to put a cog in the machine that is the military-animal industrial complex. -- Kim Socha, author of "Women, Destruction and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation"Animals and War takes us beyond critical theory's usual concerns about war, amplifying our understanding—and our concerns—about human suffering to appreciate the impact on other animals of this most human, most destructive of practices. -- Toby Miller, New York UniversityGiven the awful destructiveness of war, it is all too easy to think that its horrors are limited to its effect on human beings. This book makes the much-needed point that animals, too, have been both 'instruments' of war and its victims, a trend that threatens to continue, even in our highly technological age. An important contribution to a previously neglected arena. -- David P. Barash, editor of Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace StudiesDiscarding the anthropocentrism inherent to conventional antimilitarist analyses, Animals and War exposes the very bedrock upon which the reality of contemporary militarism has been constructed. As the contributors amply demonstrate, the lives of 'lesser' species have been so utterly devalued in the name of tactical utility that, inevitably, the same degree of devaluation would be applied not only to 'lesser' races, nations, and peoples, but ultimately to all forms of life. For anyone wishing to understand the thanatophoric nature of the societal dynamic we now confront, the connections made in this book are of profound importance. -- Ward Churchill, author of "A Little Matter of Genocide"As if war weren't already evil enough in terms of human suffering, this collection documents what's hidden in plain view: the wholesale and horrifying forced conscription and torture of animals by the military-industrial complex. -- Chris Hannah, PropagandhiExcellent! The central arguments in Animals and War burn brightly, and illuminate a truth that will stay with you long after you have finished reading this challenging, timely and valuable addition to the literature. -- Richard J. White, Sheffield Hallam University, Reader in Economic Geography, Former Editor of the Journal for Critical Animal StudiesA great read! Animals and War is an original contribution that documents how in horrific ways in war and in peace we humans dominate, exploit and horribly abuse all other species. -- Piers Beirne, author of "Confronting Animal Abuse"A great read! Animals and War is an original contribution that documents how in horrific ways in war and in peace we humans dominate, exploit and horribly abuse all other species. -- Ronnie Lee, veteran animal liberation campaignerTable of ContentsDedication Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Military-Animal Industrial Complex Chapter One: Animals as Vehicles of War Chapter Two: Front Toward Animals: Animal Exploitation in U.S. Military Medical Training Exercises Chapter Three: Nonhuman Animals as Weapons of War Chapter Four: War: Animals in the Aftermath Chapter Five: Animals at War Chapter Six: The Future of War and Animals Conclusion: A Critical Animal and Peace Studies argument to ending all wars

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Book SynopsisPart of a series which presents research on international social movements, this volume focuses on social movements and violence. Topics discussed include: individual motivations in underground political organizations; decisions to use terrorism; and ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorism.Table of ContentsPart 1 Theories and methodologies: introduction - on individual motivations in underground political organizations, Donatella della Porta; decisions to use terrorism - psychological constraints on instrumental reasoning, Martha Crenshaw. Part 2 Case studies: from protest to terrorism - the case of the SDS and the weathermen, Richard G. Braungart; political violence by the non-aggrieved - explaining the political participation of those with no apparent grievances, Robert W. White; going underground in Argentina - a look at the founders of a guerrilla movement, Maria Jose Moyano. Part 3 Women's studies: conservative and feminist images of women associated with armed, clandestine organizations in the United States, Gilda Zwerman; lacerations in the memory - women in the Italian underground organizations, Luisa Passerini. Part 4 Comparative studies: left-wing and right-wing terrorist groups - a comparison for the German case, Friedhelm Neidhardt; ethnic and sociorevolutionary terrorism - a comparison of structures, Peter Waldmann; political socialization in left-wing underground organizations - biographies of Italian and German militants, Donatella della Porta.

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