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Book SynopsisIn the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly transform all sorts of ‘violence’ into ‘non-violence’. Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahiṃsā, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajñeya’s Hindi short stories.Trade Review'...a rewarding volume that should serve diverse scholarly interests for years to come.’ Frederick M. Smith, Religious Studies Review, 2002.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface Introduction Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters Making Memories of Mogadishu in Somali Poetry about the Civil War Lidwien Kapteijns The Road, the Song and the Citizen: Singing after Violence in KwaZulu-Natal Liz Gunner Maisha bora, kwa nani? A Cool Life, for Whom? Mediations of Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Violence in a Nairobi Slum Naomi van Stapele Testimonies of Suffering and Recasting the Meanings of Memories of Violence in Post-war Mozambique Victor Igreja Suffering and Healing in the Aftermath of War and Genocide in Rwanda: Mediations through Community-Based Sociotherapy Annemiek Richters “The balsak in the Roof ”: Bush War Experiences and Mediations as Related by White South African Conscripts Diana Gibson List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisResearching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about representation of informants and information and possible use of the research for harmful ends. This book, drawing on research conducted throughout Africa in conflict zones and other insecure environments, considers the everyday dilemmas researchers face. It provides essential contributions to ongoing challenging debates about the use of alternative and mixed methods in social science research.Trade Review'Besides the Introduction, the contributions by Doná, Hammond, and Wienia stand out, especially their approaches to silence. Silence can mean complicity or resistance, a calm before the storm, a cultural expression of self-censorship, or self-censorship on the part of the researcher. These critical reflections illustrate how method encompasses our access to the field and our actions in it, but also how we reflect on our experiences, and how we analytically order and shape them into ethnographic representations. This is one of the strengths of the volume – and it could have been spelled out more explicitly. The questions and reflections raised here are relevant beyond an African context. However, restricting the focus to Africa makes this publication a timely contribution to debates on African social change and how we engage in it'. Jacob Rasmussen, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims and Roskilde University, in 'African Affairs' July 2012Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................ vii Navigating the Terrain of Methods and Ethics in Conflict Research ..... 1 Johan Pottier, Laura Hammond and Christopher Cramer Researching Conflict in Africa: A Researcher’s Account of Ife-Modakeke, South-Western Nigeria ...... 23 Olajide O. Akanji Researching Children and Violence in Evolving Socio-Political Contexts ...... 39 Giorgia Doná Four Layers of Silence: Counterinsurgency in Northeastern Ethiopia ... 61 Laura Hammond Uncertain Ethics: Researching Civil War in Sudan ..................... 79 Sharon E. Hutchinson ‘From Nation to Family’: Researching Gender and Sexuality ..... 95 Danai Mupotsa Cooperative Ethics as a New Model for Cultural Research on Peace and Security ... 111 Derek B. Miller and Ron Scollon Hidden Agendas in Conflict Research: Informants’ Interests and Research Objectivity in the Niger Delta ... 137 Ukoha Ukiwo Silence and authoritative speech in post-violence northern Ghana .. 155 Martijn Wienia List of Contributors ........................................................................... 175 Index .................................................................................................... 1

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Book SynopsisIn Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects’ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing “discretionary authority” of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial “disorder”.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth Century Justice, Imperial Public Order, and Ottoman Politico-Judicial Authority Oligarchic Rule and Local Notables in the Eighteenth Century The Kanun as Legal Practice in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 2 Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of Power The Imperial Council and Petitions as a Reflection of Imperial Law in Legal Practice Petitionary (Ahkam) Registers and Socio-Legal Surveillance Reporting Sexual Violence Actors, Strategies, and Rhetoric Petitions as a Mirror of Local Cleavages Chapter 3 Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor Sexual Violence as a Sign of “Habitualness” to Violence Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State Chapter 4 The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts Why fi‛l-i şeni‛ (Indecent Act), but not zina Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults Chapter 5 The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia The Enigma of Crime and Punishment in the Court Records Social and Institutional Limits to the Authority of Local Judges Under Whose Discretion was Sexual and Moral Order? In Lieu of Conclusion: Silence and Outcry in the Records Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram. Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s’exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l’étude sur Boko Haram. Contributors are: Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphaël Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophélie Rillon, Johanna Siméant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction 1. On the banality of mobilisation in Africa / De la banalité des mobilisations en Afrique Michel Cahen, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Kadya Tall Part I De l’attente des jeunes et leurs formes de contestation / Waithood or youth longing for real changes 2. Alcinda Honwana : “Enough is enough!”: Youth protests and political change in Africa. 3. Benjamin Soares & Marie-Nathalie Leblanc: Islam, jeunesse et trajectoires de mobilisation en Afrique de l’Ouest à l’ère néolibérale : un regard anthropologique. 4. Kadya Tall : Dieu, le Pape et la Sainte Vierge : un mouvement de contestation de l’Église catholique au Bénin. 5. Thomas Fouquet : La trame politique des cultures urbaines : motifs dakarois. Part II Quand des minorités sociales manifestent / When social minorities demonstrate 6. Alexander Keese : Colonialism and fugitive communities in West Central Africa, 1920-1955 : Seeking parallels with Maroon societies. 7. Ophélie Rillon : Mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire : la “dépolitisation” comme outil d’émancipation dans le Mali des années 1970. 8. Christophe Broqua : Les pro, les anti et l’international : mobilisations autour de l’homosexualité en Afrique de l’Ouest. 9. Raphaël Botiveau : Changing leadership representations and loss of union authority in South Africa’s mineworkers’ strikes. Part III Violence et état d’exception / Violence and state of exception 10. Dominique Malaquais: Geographies of violence: Urban imaginaries in Douala. 11. Johanna Siméant: Shadow of the state, fear of violence, and the memory of 1991 : Marches and riots in Bamako, Mali (1992-2011). 12. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga : Les “guerres électorales” et les mobilisations violentes au Congo-Brazzaville. 13. Adam Higazi : Mobilisation into and against Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria. Index

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Book SynopsisOkinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 “military comfort stations” from 1941–45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the Japanese army manipulated comfort stations to isolate local communities, facilitate “spy hunts,” and foster a fear of rape by Americans that induced many Okinawans to choose death over survival. The politics of sex pursued by the US occupation (1945–72) perpetuated that fear of rape into the postwar era. This study of war, sexual violence, and postcolonial memory sees the comfort stations as discursive spaces of remembrance where differing war experiences can be articulated, exchanged, and mutually reassessed. Winner of the 2017 Best Publication Award of the Year by the Okinawa Times.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps and Tables Editorial Note Introduction: Witness to Violence PART 1: CAPITAL AND COMFORT STATIONS 1.The Daitō Islands: Comfort Stations in a Plantation Society PART 2: COMFORT STATIONS MOVE INTO THE VILLAGES 2. The Okinawan War and Comfort Stations: An Overview (1944-45) 3. Iejima Airfield and Its Comfort Stations 4. Springboard for Invasion: Yomitan Airfield and Its Comfort Stations 5. Kadena Airfield: From Auxiliary Airstrip to “Keystone of the Pacific” 6. South-Central Okinawa: Bloody Battlegrounds, Unfinished Airbases, and Comfort Stations PART 3: COMFORT STATIONS ON ISLANDS “INVADED” AND “NOT INVADED” 7. The Comfort Stations of Northern Okinawa 8. Premonitions of a Ground War and the Fear of Rape 9. Another Face of War: Miyakojima and the Battle against Hunger Epilogue: "Comfort Stations" as Sites of Remembrance Appendix: Okinawa in South Korean Scholarship Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisThe chapters of Religion, Gender, and Family Violence: When Prayers Are Not Enough have been written from multiple disciplinary perspectives (sociology, religious studies, law) and based on research within diverse religious traditions including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as new religious movements. Similarities and differences between traditions are highlighted based on empirical research which shows how people actually deal with family violence in different contexts. This book also addresses some of the larger historical and political backgrounds that impact the experiences of family violence amongst ethno-religious minorities. The lives of religious victims and perpetrators of family violence are considered, as well as the responsibilities of religious leaders, congregations and secular professionals in addressing this widespread social problem.Trade Review"Studies of the intersection of family/partner violence and religion remain in short supply. This volume is an important addition to the field. It should be read by clergy and religious leaders who want to learn more about family violence and by anti-violence advocates who want to better serve diverse populations. It should be included in libraries of universities that support research into this critical area." - V. Jacquette Rhoades, University of Indianapolis, Reading Religion, September 2018.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catherine Holtmann Part 1: Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence 1 Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in Families  Steve McMullin 2 Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family Violence  Catherine Holtmann 3 “The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These”: Corporal Punishment and the Move Towards Non-Violent Discipline in Christian Parenting  Susan Nunn and Emma Robinson 4 Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter Experiences  Jolyne H. Roy Part 2: Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence 5 Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained Glass  Nancy Nason-Clark 6 Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: “A big part of who we are is the spiritual part”  Barbara Fisher-Townsend 7 “Guru Pedophiles”, Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations concerning “Cults”/nrms, 1993–2017  Susan J. Palmer Part 3: Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism 8 The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce : Static or Dynamic?  Pascale Fournier and Victoria Snyers 9 The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women’s Everyday Struggles  Pascale Fournier, Farah Malek-Bakouche, Eve Laoun 10 In the Name of God? ‘Get’ Refusal as Domestic Abuse  Yael Machtinger Conclusion  Nancy Nason-Clark

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Book SynopsisMany urban centres are shaken to their core with mistrust between communities and law enforcement. Erosion was exacerbated in the Obama-era, intensified during the 2016 campaign, and is violently manifested in Trump’s presidency. The promise of uniting communities articulated by leaders lays broken. The text suggests that promise of prosperous and engaged urban citizenry will remain broken until we can honestly address the following unanswered questions: What factors contribute to the creation of divided communities? What happened to erode trust between community and law enforcement? What concerns and challenges do law enforcement officials have relating to policing within urban centres? What are the experiences of residents and police? And, finally, whose lives really matter, and how do we move forward? Contributors are: Lawrence Baines, Amber C. Bryant, Erica L. Bumpers, Issac Carter, Justin A. Cole, Erin Dreeszen, Jaquial Durham, Antonio Ellis, Idara Essien, Jeffrey M. Frank, Beatriz Gonzalez, Aaron J. Griffen, Jennie L. Hanna, Diane M. Harnek Hall, Cleveland Hayes, Deanna Hayes-Wilson, Stacey Hill, Jim L. Hollar, Taharee A. Jackson, Melinda Jackson-Jefferson, Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Stephen M. Lentz, Patricia Maloney, Isiah Marshall, Jr., Derrick McKisick, Rebecca Neal, Ariel Quinio, Jacqueline M. Rhoden-Trader, Derrick Robinson, Ebony B. Rose, Randa Suleiman, Clarice Thomas, Kerri J. Tobin, Eddie Vanderhorst, Rolanda L. Ward, Deondra Warner, John Williams, Deleon M. Wilson, Geoffrey L. Wood, Jemimah L. Young, and Jie Yu.Table of ContentsBlack Bodies, Blue Ribbons: An Introduction  Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Kerri J. Tobin and Stephen M. Lentz 1. The Jim Crow Effect on Federal Policy and Practice: Social Engineering and the Making of Metropolis in Black and White  Issac Carter, Beatriz Gonzalez and Cleveland Hayes 2. The Costs of Whistling, Orange Juice, and Skittles: An Anti-Black Examination of the Extrajudicial Killings of Black Youth  Justin A. Coles 3. The Myth of Post-Emancipation: Utilizing the 1857 Dred Scott Decision and the 2017 Chicago Department of Justice Report to Examine Hyper-Policing, Black Freedom, and Strategies for Resistance  Ebony Rose 4. East vs. West: The Industrious and Inconsistent Rising of Buffalo, New York  Roland L. Ward and Isiah Marshall Jr 5. Historical Categorical Inequality: The Creation of Two Segregated Cities within an Urban Centre  Geoffrey L. Wood 6. Segregation Then, Segregation Now: A Tale of Two Cities within One Urban Area  Melinda Jackson-Jefferson and Deondra Warner 7. The Double Penalty: How School and Neighborhood Segregation Affects Racial Conflict  Patricia Maloney 8. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold  Deanna Hayes-Wilson 9. The Contested New Territory: Integration and Dissatisfaction  Ariel Quinio 10. Cranes, Cones, and Invisible Walls: How Zip Codes, Economic Development, and Housing Patterns Strengthen Segregation  Derrick Robinson 11. Fighting the Powers That Be: Examining Conflicting Dual Legitimate Powers Operative in Urban America  Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Diane M. Harnek Hall and Jacqueline M. Rhoden-Trader 12. The Decreasing Value of Labor in the Modern Age Broken Promise: Black Deaths and Blue Ribbons  Derrick D. McKisick 13. A Tale of Two Cities: A Divide of White and Black Non-Unification  Erica L. Bumpers 14. Living in a Warzone  Jaquial Durham 15. Police Brutality in North Charleston, South Carolina: Somebody Has to Say Something  Antonio L. Ellis and Eddie Vanderhorst 16. An Inspired Protest: Notes from Baton Rouge 2016 Protests  Deleon M. Wilson 17. We Don’t Want No Trouble: Inspiring White Accomplices and Solidarity in the Age of All Lives Matter  Taharee A. Jackson 18. On the Frontlines: The Role of Social Media in the Charlotte Protests  Tiffany Hollis 19. Truths We Don’t Share  Erin Dreeszen 20. Under-Educated and Over-Adjudicated  Jemimah L. Young 21. The Role of Faith in Advocating for Black Minds  Rebecca A. Neal and Idara Essien 22. Blacklivesmatter, But Only So Much? Evaluating Per Pupil Expenditures in Two Detroit Metropolitan School Districts  Amber C. Bryant 23. Us Versus Them: Charter Schools, Vouchers, and the New Segregation  Lawrence Baines, Jennie Hanna and Stacey Hill 24. Policing the School  Kerri J. Tobin and Stephen M. Lentz 25. The Hardened Heart  Jeff Frank 26. Alternatives to Over Utilizing Law Enforcement in Our Schools: Hearing from Administrators & Teachers in Milwaukee County Schools  Randa Suleiman and Jim Hollar 27. Education, Economics & Segregation in Baton Rouge  John Williams, III, Amber C. Bryant and Chance W. Lewis 28. What Does It Mean to be United?  Clarice Thomas and Martha Donovan 29. Wounds and Band-Aids in a Divided Society  Jie Yu 30. White Matters  Aaron J. Griffen

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Book SynopsisMany judgments regarding what is good or bad, possible or impossible, rely upon unspoken assumptions or frameworks which are used to view and evaluate events and actions. Philosophers uncover these hidden aspects of thoughts and judgments, scrutinizing them for soundness, validity, and fairness. These assumptions and frameworks permeate the topics of violence, nonviolence, war, conflict, and reconciliation; and these assumptions influence how we address these problems and issues. The papers in this volume explore what kind of assumptions and frameworks would be needed in order for people to see nonviolence as a sensible approach to contemporary problems. Topics include conceptions of positive peace, nonviolence and international structures, and perspectives on peace education. Contributors are Elizabeth N. Agnew, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, William C. Gay, Ronald J. Glossop, Ian M. Harris, John Kultgen, Joseph C. Kunkel, Douglas Lewis, Danielle Poe and Harry van der Linden.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Michael Patterson Brown and Katy Gray Brown Part 1:Nonviolence and Positive Peace 1 The Practice of Peace: Thinking, Speaking, Acting  William C. Gay 2 Can You Hear Me Now? The Element of Listening in Positive Peace  Elizabeth N. Agnew 3 The Ethics of Care and Violence  Andrew Fitz-Gibbon 4 Freedom, Oppression, and the Ethics of Ambiguity  Douglas Lewis Part 2:Nonviolence and International Structures 5 The Impotence of Moral Arguments in the Debate Over Nuclear Deterrence  John Kultgen 6 The U.S. Constitution, Human Rights, and Iraq  Joseph C. Kunkel 7 Questioning Combatant’s Privilege in Unjust Wars  Harry van der Linden 8 The International Criminal Court: Progressing despite U.S. Opposition  Ronald J. Glossop Part 3:Nonviolence and Peace Education 9 A Philosophic Framework for Peace Education  Ian M. Harris 10 Perspectives from a Catholic, Marianist University on Teaching Peace  Danielle Poe 11 Dewey’s Political Ethics as Applied Philosophy that Advances International Peace  William C. Gay Index

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Book SynopsisFears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father appear repeatedly in Western traditions, starting with the Greeks and the Hebrews. In Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined, Beit-Hallahmi focuses on rituals of violence tied to religion, both imagined and real. The main focus of this work is the meaning of blood and ritual killing in the history of religion. The book examines the encounter with the idea of child sacrifice in the context of human hopes for salvation.

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Book SynopsisIn Violence: Probing the Boundaries around the World the contributors analyse implicitly and explicitly the conceptualisation of violent processes across the world, as well as the circumstances that enable them to exist, and open ways to imagine valuable interventions. This collection of articles presented on the 11th Global Conference in Prague makes clear how fascinating violence is, and how difficult to cope with and to initiate changes. Through explicit thinking, the book opens ways to develop and to plan relevant initiatives and valuable interventions that are culture sensitive.Table of Contents List of Figures and Table  Notes on Contributors Introduction  Arie David Plat and Silvia Naisberg Silberman  PART 1 Contributions to the Conceptualization of Violent Processes  ‘Too Many Women are Dying’: the Public Construction of Private Violence in Scotland and New Zealand   Ellie Conway  Songs of Pain: Female Active Survivors in Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow   Rebeca Maseda  The Potential for Violence in Helping: Resisting the Neo-Colonialism of Humanitarian Action   Thomas Matyók and Cathryne L. Schmitz  Another Face of Violence: Internalized Oppression and Detrimental Contracts   Arie David Plat and Silvia Naisberg Silberman  PART 2 Historical Processes  What Was and What Will Be: Denial as a Form of Violence   Wendy Wiseman  PART 3 Gender Violence  ‘Remaining Men Together’: a Critique of Modern Experience through Fighting as a Reminder of the Body in Palahnuik’s Fight Club   Mahinur Aksehir Uygur  Women’s Bodies, Men’s War: the Political Economy of Military Rape and Gender Violence   Paromita Chakrabarti  Afghanistan’s Bacha Baazi Practice and the Normalization of Sexual Violence against Boys   Athena Elton  Mutuality of Teen Dating Violence: Prevalence, Context, Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention   Alison Paradis, Martine Hébert and Catherine Moreau  Violence in Premarital Relationships in Iran: An Exploratory Qualitative Research   Ladan Rahbari  Index

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Book SynopsisIn An Chunggŭn: His Life and Thought in his own Words, Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch provide a complete translation of all of An’s writings and excerpts from his trial and appeal. Though An is most famous for killing Itō Hirobumi, the contents of this volume show that there was much more to him than that. For instance, far from being anti-Japanese, An thought deeply about how China, Japan, and Korea could work together to build a regional peace that would eventually spread throughout the world. Now, for the first time, all of An’s extant writings have been assembled together into an English translation that includes annotations and an introduction that places An and his works in their historical context. This translation was funded by the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: An Chunggŭn’s Pioneering Idea and Design for a Pax Humanus Centered on Humanism, Asian Integration, and Perpetual Peace Translators’ Introduction 1 安應七歷史 / History of An Ŭngch’il  壹千九百九年旧十一月一日 (十二月十三日) 始述 / Begun the first day of the eleventh month (December 13), 1909 2 Miscellaneous Writings  On Uniting Human Hearts  The Thoughts of the Korean An Ŭngch’il  An’s Final Farewell  An’s Final Statement 3 Excerpts from An Chunggŭn’s Trials  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the First Trial Session  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the Third Trial Session  Transcripts of the Fifth Trial Session  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the Sixth Trial Session 4 Notes on An’s Post-trial Hearing 5 Prison Report 6 東洋平和論 / On Peace in the East  東洋平和論 序 / On Peace in the East: Introduction  東洋平和論 目錄 / On Peace in the East: Table of Contents  前鑑 / Mirror of the Past 7 Prison Letters  An’s Prison Letters 8 An Chunggŭn’s Calligraphy Afterword Appendix 1: A Brief Timeline of An Chunggŭn’s Life Appendix 2: The Genealogy of An Chunggŭn Appendix 3: Map of An Chunggŭn’s Activities Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores issues and themes related to violence against women. It is distinctive in two ways. First, the editors have convened an international cohort of contributing scholars, whose assessment of the pervasiveness and urgency of the problems and their proposals for solutions derives from their pneumatology: their theology of the Holy Spirit. Second, this book represents quite simply the first sustained effort to bring together in one volume Pentecostal voices from a variety of academic disciplines, ecclesial traditions, and cultural situations to address the urgent issues associated with violence toward women.Trade Review"Sisters, Mothers, Daughters: Pentecostal Perspectives on Violence Against Women offers an excellent, scholarly, nuanced, thoughtful and compassionate portrayal of the interweaving of religion and abuse within the global Pentecostal community. While the chapters are written by different authors, they are of a consistently high quality, offering interesting, informative, and useful ways to engage readers and the broader public with the suffering that so many women experience. This book is a must read for every pastor and every theological student." - Nancy Nason-Clark, Professor Emerita, University of New Brunswick, author of many books including Intimate Partner Violence and Religion, and Men Who Batter.Table of ContentsPreface   Michael D. Palmer Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on the Cover Image Introduction   Catherine Holtmann 1 Pneumatology in the Time of #MeToo An Exploration of the Spirit’s Role in Suffering 13   Cheryl M. Peterson 2 Toxic Spirituality Reexamining the Ways in Which Spiritual Virtues Can Reinforce Violence Against Women 33   Lisa P. Stephenson 3 Nevertheless, She Persisted Freeing Women’s Bodies from Silent Theological Sacrifice Zones 49   Tanya Riches 4 Shaming the Men into Keeping Up with the Ladies Constructing Pentecostal Masculinities 69   Linda M. Ambrose 5 Speak to the Heart Orthopathic Hermeneutics and Telling the Whole Story of the Woman Cut into Pieces 86   Casey S. Cole 6 Trouble in Paradise Exploring Gender Roles and Violence against Women in Song of Songs 5:2–8 104   Jacqueline N. Grey 7 Miriam Toews’ Women Talking A Call for Artistic Prophethood 121   Martin W. Mittelstadt 8 Shanghai Brothels, Spirit Baptisms The Door of Hope Women as a Source for Pentecostal Ressourcement 135   Alex R. Mayfield 9 From Medical Kits to Fighting Rape as a Weapon of War The Development of Scandinavian Pentecostal Medical Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 154   Tommy Davidsson and Rakel Ystebø Alegre 10 A Jesus Follower Responds To Sexualized Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 185   Rory Randall 11 Toward A Pentecostal Ecclesiology Making Room for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence 207   Lauren J. Raley 12 Toward a Rhetoric of the Spirit Assault, Abuse, and a Theology of Women’s Empowerment 223   Joy A.E. Qualls 13 The Shifting Face of Violence among Taiwanese Women in Confucian Society A Charismatic Perspective with a Womanist Slant   Judith C. P. Lin Afterword   Kimberly Ervin Alexander and Melissa L. Archer Appendix Pentecostal Sisters Too: A Call to Redeem our Bodies Index

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Book SynopsisUp in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Loaded with the Past, Coloring the Present: The Power of Gun Imaginaries  Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, and Pekka M. Kolehmainen 2 We are Texas Because of Guns: Firearms in Texan and “American” Imaginaries  Laura Hernández-Ehrisman 3 The Founding Fathers in the Temporal Imaginaries of Texas Gun Politics  Pekka M. Kolehmainen 4 “I Forgive Him, Yes”: Gendered Trauma Narratives of the Texas Tower Shooting  Lotta Kähkönen 5 Triggered: The Imaginary Realities of Campus Carry in Texas  Benita Heiskanen 6 Radical Political Imagination and Generational Utopias: Gun Control as a Site of Youth Activism  Mila Seppälä 7 Pro-Campus Carry Video Imaginaries at The University of Texas Austin  Juha A. Vuori 8 Firearms Fetishism in Texas: Entanglements of Gun Imaginaries and Belief  Albion M. Butters 9 Imaging Texas Gun Culture: A Photo Essay  Albion M. Butters, Benita Heiskanen, and Lotta Kähkönen 10 The Explanatory, Social, and Performative Power of Gun Imaginaries  Benita Heiskanen and Pekka M. Kolehmainen Index

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Book SynopsisOkinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 “military comfort stations” from 1941–45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the Japanese army manipulated comfort stations to isolate local communities, facilitate “spy hunts,” and foster a fear of rape by Americans that induced many Okinawans to choose death over survival. The politics of sex pursued by the US occupation (1945–72) perpetuated that fear of rape into the postwar era. This study of war, sexual violence, and postcolonial memory sees the comfort stations as discursive spaces of remembrance where differing war experiences can be articulated, exchanged, and mutually reassessed. Winner of the 2017 Best Publication Award of the Year by the Okinawa Times.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps and Tables Editorial Note Introduction: Witness to Violence PART 1: CAPITAL AND COMFORT STATIONS 1.The Daitō Islands: Comfort Stations in a Plantation Society PART 2: COMFORT STATIONS MOVE INTO THE VILLAGES 2. The Okinawan War and Comfort Stations: An Overview (1944-45) 3. Iejima Airfield and Its Comfort Stations 4. Springboard for Invasion: Yomitan Airfield and Its Comfort Stations 5. Kadena Airfield: From Auxiliary Airstrip to “Keystone of the Pacific” 6. South-Central Okinawa: Bloody Battlegrounds, Unfinished Airbases, and Comfort Stations PART 3: COMFORT STATIONS ON ISLANDS “INVADED” AND “NOT INVADED” 7. The Comfort Stations of Northern Okinawa 8. Premonitions of a Ground War and the Fear of Rape 9. Another Face of War: Miyakojima and the Battle against Hunger Epilogue: "Comfort Stations" as Sites of Remembrance Appendix: Okinawa in South Korean Scholarship Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisOntologies of Violence provides a new paradigm for understanding the concept of violence through comparative interpretations of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, philosophical theologians in the Mennonite pacifist tradition, and Grace M. Jantzen’s feminist philosophy of religion. By drawing out and challenging the remarkably similar priorities shared by its three sources, and by challenging the assumption that differences necessarily lead to displacement, Ontologies of Violence provides a critical theory of violence by treating it as a diagnostic concept that implies the violation of value-laden boundaries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Is Violence?  1 Political Theology  2 Ontological Violence  3 Plan of the Work  4 Approaches to Violence 1 Jacques Derrida’s Original Violence  1 The Early Derrida  2 Violence in “Violence and Metaphysics”   2.1 The Violence of Light   2.2 Phenomenology, Ontology, Metaphysics   2.3 Difference and Eschatology  3 Original Violence  4 Reading “Violence and Metaphysics” with Derrida’s “Préjuges” and “Force of Law”   4.1 “Before the Law (Préjuges)” (1982)   4.2 “Force of Law” (1989)  5 Situating Violence in Derrida 2 Mennonite Pacifist Epistemology and Ontological Peace  1 Radical Reformation  2 Radical Orthodoxy  3 Mennonites, Milbank, and Derrida  4 The Philosophical Turn in Mennonite Pacifism  5 Radical Reformation Responses  6 Chris K. Huebner’s Precarious Peace  7 Excursus on Yoder’s Patience as Method and Pacifist Epistemology  8 Peter C. Blum’s Impossible Peace  9 Pacifist Epistemology Revisited  10 Mennonite Pacifist Epistemology and Derrida’s Original Violence 3 Grace Jantzen’ Critique of Violent Displacement  1 What Is Violence?  2 Grace Jantzen  3 Derrida, Jantzen, and Mennonite Pacifist Epistemology  4 The Problem of Metanarratives  5 Jantzen, the Mennonites, and Derrida  6 Violence in Death and the Displacement of Beauty  7 Violence and Displacement  8 Violence, History, and Master Narratives  9 Foundations of Violence  10 Violence to Eternity  11 A Place of Springs  12 Violence and History Conclusion: Violence as the Violation of Value-Laden Boundaries  1 Derrida’s Original Violence  2 Mennonite Pacifist Epistemology  3 The Problem of Displacement  4 Violence Is the Violation of Value-Laden Boundaries  5 Violent Intersections  6 Social Accountability, Violence, and Public Health Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies the character of human predators who violate others or themselves. The contagion of violence infects values that affect behavior. But we may call upon the intrinsic values of love, compassion, and creativity to oppose such violence. The book boldly argues for a renewal of the spiritual energy that gave rise to civilization.Table of ContentsRem B. EDWARDS: Editorial Foreword ONE Distinguishing Good from Evil TWO Pop-Culture: Marketing Violence Globally THREE The Absence of Humility and Its Affect on Character FOUR Enlightened Egoists as Careful Users FIVE Hypersensitivity to Criticism: A Symptom of Violence SIX Control Is Power SEVEN Who Are More Violent: Men or Women? EIGHT Intrinsic Value and Love as Amor NINE In Touch with Eternity TEN Experiencing Interconnectedness ELEVEN Our Future: A New Millennium Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book Synopsis“One afternoon, a patient who had been in three times weekly ... psychotherapy ... left my office after her session, drove down to the train tracks half a mile from my office, and sat down facing an oncoming train.” This tragic event opens the essay by psychoanalyst Susanne Chassay who explores the relationship between private and political terrorism. Her viewpoint complements analyses of violence – that ‘mercurial gestalt’ – by other contributors to this collection derived from a 2003 Cultures of Violence conference held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, organized by the Inter-disciplinary Net. From fields as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political science, literary criticism, and forensics, authors consider, for instance, hostility to European minorities; military training and torture; the ‘endemic violence’ aesthetically recorded by Haitian novelists; child abuse in film; female genital mutilation in fiction; or the massacre of Koreans during the 1923 Japanese earthquake. Violence in contact zones in Northern Ireland or in the memory of South African museum directors trying to comply with Truth and Reconciliation Commission mandates is also an object of scrutiny here. Finally, that vexed, primordial issue of violence – nature or nurture? – is probed.Table of ContentsTobe LEVIN and Patricia TURRISI: Introduction – Violence: “Mercurial Gestalt” Violence in Theory and Praxis: Torture, Terror, Suicide Patricia TURRISI and Michael J. SHAFFER: Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-Violent Behaviour Oleg PILETSKY: E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism, or Shopping for Identities in the European Union Jessica WOLFENDALE: From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency Kaiama L. GLOVER: A Literature of Terror and Mourning Susanne CHASSAY: Hurtling Toward Darkness: Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World Violence Secret and Sanctioned: Child Abuse, Apartheid, FGM Larissa N. NIEC, Elizabeth V. BRESTAN, and Linda Anne VALLE: Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film 1992-2001 Tobe LEVIN: Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse M.K. FLYNN and Tony KING: Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History Karen LYSAGHT: Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland Eleonore WILDBURGER: Racism and Violence: Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones Violence and Institutions: Butchery, Execution, Riots Jin-hee LEE: The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumours and Massacre in the Japanese Empire William VLACH: When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence Vivien MILLER: “Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death”: Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common theme, namely how ideological constructions influence, facilitate, and shape the understanding of our own involvement in violence. Whilst the first section focuses on one specific form of violence, namely genocide, the second explores our construction of violent images: verbally, visually, aurally, legally, socially, imaginally. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multi-faceted and complex dimensions of violence in our contemporary, global world.Table of ContentsNancy Billias: Preface Constructing Genocide Thomas Cooper: The Uses of Adversaries: Normalising Violence through the Construction of the Other Nico Carpentier: The Ideological Model of War: Discursive Mediations of the Self and the Enemy Roger Bromley: Beast, Vermin, Insect - Hate Media and the Construction of the Enemy: The Case of Rwanda, 1990-1994 Leonhard Praeg: Genocide, or the Aporia of Collective Violence Constructing Images of Violence Kirsten Pavlovic: Sovereignty, Law and Australia’s Sacred Men Yaso Nadarajah: A Community in Constant Transition: Propagating a Yield of Conflict and Violence? Nathan Roger: Abu Ghraib Abuse Images: From Perverse War Trophies through Internet Based War Porn to Artistic Representations and Beyond Marie-Luise Kohlke: Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence Monika Schwaerzler: Digital Worlds and the Sound of Violence Fiona Sprott: Single Girls and Serial Killers: Sex, Slaughter and the City Michael Staudigl: Vulnerable Embodiments: A Phenomenological Approach to the Many Faces of Violence Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.Trade Review“In its entirety, Literature and Terrorism is clearly the more comprehensive and more nuanced of the two volumes, with a broader scope, a larger extent of theoretical groundwork, and a more diversified and critical approach to the phenomenon that ‘9/11’ has become over the past thirteen years.” - Birgit Däwes, Flensburg, in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.1 (2016)Table of ContentsMichael C. Frank and Eva Gruber: Literature and Terrorism: Introduction The Emergence of the Terrorist in Fiction: Literary-Historical Approaches Gudrun Braunsperger: Sergey Nechaev and Dostoevsky’s Devils: The Literary Answer to Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Russia Michael C. Frank: Plots on London: Terrorism in Turn-of-the-Century British Fiction Hendrik Blumentrath: Enmity and the Archive: Aesthetics of Defiguration in Literature and Criminology, 1900/1970 Pre- and Post-9/11 Representations of Terrorism in Fiction: Continuities and Breaks Eva Gruber: Narrating Terrorism on the Eve of 9/11: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto Martina Wolff: Self, Identity and Terrorism in Current American Literature: American Pastoral and Terrorist Roy Scranton: The 9/11 Novel and the Politics of Narcissism Margaret Scanlan: After the Apocalypse: Novelists and Terrorists since 9/11 Michael König: Literary Accounts of Terrorism in Recent German Literature: An Attempt at Marginalization? Narrativizations of Terror: Media and Modes, Plot and Form Ulrich Meurer: Double-mediated Terrorism: Gerhard Richter and Don DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof” Kirsten Mahlke: A Fantastic Tale of Terror: Argentina’s “Disappeared” and Their Narrative Representation in Julio Cortázar’s “Second Time Round” Georgiana Banita: Middle Hours: Terrorism and Narrative Emplotment in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days The Question of Genre: Drama and Narrative Literature after 9/11 Marie-Luise Egbert: Narratives of Terror: A New Paradigm for the Novel? Herbert Grabes: The Impact of “September 11”: Dramatic and Narrative Creations Notes on Contributors Index

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