Violence and abuse in society Books
Bloomsbury Academic Glass Walls
Book SynopsisAmy Diehl, PhD, is an award-winning information technology leader and gender equity researcher. Her writing has also appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine. Glass Walls is her first book. Visit her online at amy-diehl.com. Leanne M. Dzubinski, PhD, is dean of faculty development and global education at Westmont College in California. She is the author of Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History and Playing by the Rules: How Women Lead in Evangelical Mission Organizations.
£20.43
Cherrelle Haney-Jones My Truth Will Set Me Free
£14.39
Bloomsbury Academic Healing Through Wonder
Book SynopsisVal Walker is a rehabilitation consultant and blogger for Psychology Today, Social Self, and Health Story Collaborative. She is the author of The Art of Comforting, which won the Nautilus Gold Medal Book Award, and 400 Friends and No One to Call. With a Master of Science degree in rehabilitation counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University, she has led support groups for twenty-four years for people living with chronic illness, disability, grief, and trauma. She lives in Boston and teaches and speaks throughout New England at human services agencies, medical centers, hospices, universities, and community education programs. Val's articles, interviews, and advice quotes have appeared in national publications such as TIME, AARP, Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Coping with Cancer, Boston Globe Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and others. Since 2020, media appearances include Parade, Next Avenue, Rewire, Boomer Magazine, Babyboomer.com, Healthy Aging, Caregiver Space, Caregiver Solutions, and Sweety High.
£20.48
The University of Chicago Press The Nature of Diversity An Evolutionary Voyage of
Book SynopsisHow does democracy fare when the people governed insist they live in a world with witches? If the government of a people afflicted by witchcraft refuses to punish witches, how does it avoid becoming alienated from the perceived needs of its people or, worse, seen as being in league with witches? In Soweto, South Africa, the constant threat of violent crime, the increase in black socio-economic inequality, the AIDS pandemic, and a widespread fear of witchcraft have converged to create a pervasive sense of insecurity among citizens and a unique public policy problem for government. In Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, Adam Ashforth examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft. Ashforth examines the dynamics of insecurity in the everyday life of Soweto at the turn of the twenty-first century. He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity and documents new patterns of interpretation attributing agency to evil forces. Finally, he analyzes the response of post-apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long-term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Beautiful Democracy
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.Trade Review"Beautiful Democracy is an important book, reestablishing aesthetics as a vital issue both within the immediate field of American literature and far beyond it. It engages a long and complexly developed conversation on the politics of form, using rich archival material, ranging from college curricula, black print culture, and the history of film." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass
Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? This book looks at the emotionally charged South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.Trade Review"Sing the Rage is a highly innovative piece of work that contributes on many levels to the study of transitional justice and to our understanding of the role of emotions in political life: It combines empirical case studies with conceptual analysis and work in the history of political thought in fruitful and exciting ways. The book will surely generate lots of attention and be widely read." (Sharon Krause, Brown University)"
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Maximum Security The Culture of Violence in
Book SynopsisBased on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that intense policing and security strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence 2: Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers 3: Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies 4: Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect" 5: Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality 6: Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty 7: "Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View 8: Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Women and War
Book SynopsisThis study examines how the myths of man as "Just Warrior" and woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate/secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. It demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Beautiful Souls/Just Warriors: The Seduction of War 1: Not-a-Soldier's Story: An Exemplary Tale A Child of the 1950s: Images of War and Martyrdom The Growing Up of a Political Theorist 2: The Discourse of War and Politics: From the Greeks to Today Taming Homer's Warrior: Plato and Aristotle The Ideal Republic: Machiavelli and Rousseau The Nation-State The Revolutionary Alternative: Marx and Engels The "Science" of War and Politics: International Relations Becomes an Academic Discipline 3: Exemplary Tales of Civic Virtue Women and the Civil War The First World War: "My Nation-State, of Thee I Shout" 4: The Attempt to Disarm Civic Virtue The Christian Conundrum: From Pacifists to Reluctant Warriors Just War, Holy War, and the Witness of Peace Female Privatization: The Beautiful Soul Implications of the Just-War Tradition 5: Women: The Ferocious Few/The Noncombatant Many The Historic Cleavage Female Group Violence The Ferocious Few The Noncombatant Many 6: Men: The Militant Many/The Pacific Few The Militant Many The Pacific Few The Literature of War Structures of Experience: The Good Soldier/The Good Mother 7: Neither Warriors nor Victims: Men, Women, and Civic Life The Liberal Conscience Uncertain Trumpet: Feminism's War with War Women as Warriors: "You're in the Army Now" Beyond War and Peace Epilogue Notes Index
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Language of the Gun Youth Crime and Public Policy
Book SynopsisHere, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.Trade Review"Bernard Harcourt is surely one of the most creative scholars working at the intersection of law, social science, and policy. In Language of the Gun, he presents a fresh and empirical look at the meaning of guns for youths that helps shed new light on broader theoretical and policy issues." - Calvin Morrill, University of California, Irvine"
£30.40
University of Chicago Press The Colors of Violence
Book SynopsisFor decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines the subjective experience of religious hatred in the author's native land.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and
Book SynopsisFerdowsian combines compelling stories of survivors with the latest science on resilience to help us understand the link between violence against people and animals and the biological foundations of recovery, peace, and hope.Trade Review"Human and nonhuman animal rights activist Dr. Hope Ferdowsian has witnessed the horrific effects of brutality directed at both. Phoenix Zones are sanctuaries throughout the earth that extraordinary people have created to allow these dignified human and nonhuman victims to reclaim their lives. An acute observer of all animals, human and nonhuman, Hope's fine prose and deftly drawn portraits allow us to understand how we can not only support these Phoenix Zones, but create a world in which they become obsolete."--Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project "An extraordinary, vital book that demonstrates how trauma runs deep, not recognizing gender, race, nationality, age or species. An absorbing read that combines hard science with adventure, personal observation, and compassion."--Ingrid Newkirk, president and cofounder of PETA "This is a gem of a book. Using real stories about real people, Phoenix Zones delivers a powerful message about how we may confront, understand, and overcome adversity, and make the world a better place for ourselves and the other animals that we share it with. It radiates light and offers hope in these dark and dangerous times."--David Livingstone Smith, author of Less Than Human
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Rights and Gender Violence
Book SynopsisA study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. The author offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. This book will interest students of gender studies and anthropology.Trade Review"A great contribution to our understanding of the interaction of international human rights norms and local culture. Sally Engle Merry succeeds in showing the complexity of this relationship through a solid grounding in a great deal of field research." - Cynthia Bowman, Northwestern University School of Law"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press A Prescription for Murder The Victorian Serial
Book SynopsisBetween 1877 and 1892, Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. Using press reports and police dossiers, this work presents an account of the killings, providing an insight into Victorian sexual tensions and fears.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dramatis Personae Introduction Pt. 1: The Crimes 1: The Time and Place 2: The Murders 3: The Police 4: The Suspect 5: The Trial Pt. 2: The Context 6: Prostitution 7: Abortion 8: Blackmail 9: Doctors 10: Detectives 11: Degenerates 12: Women Conclusion Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Discourse and Destruction The City of
Book SynopsisThis text reconstructs the conflict between MOVE, a radical black separatist group, and the city of Philadelphia. Against this account, the author develops an analysis of the relation between definition and action, between language and violence.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Cholas Pishtacos Stories of Race Sex in the
Book SynopsisCholas and Pishtacos are two provocative characters from South American popular culture. In this book, these two figures become vehicles for an exploration of race, sex, and violence beginning with three forms of social and economic interaction: estrangement, exchange and accumulation.
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press On My Own
Book SynopsisIn the Los Angeles riots 2300 Korean shopkeepers lost their businesses in one day. The riots showed them the fragility of their economic base, since their businesses depended on impoverished, oppressed and rebellious classes. This is an account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles.
£30.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking The
Book SynopsisIntercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking offers an analysis of communal violence and armed conflict in urban Central Asia. Drawing from Joldon Kutmanaliev’s fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan, the book assesses local-level differences in communal violence across neighbourhoods and the role of local communities and urban landscapes in conflict prevention.Trade Review“This book is a major contribution to our knowledge of political violence. Combining rich data with an innovative methodological approach, grounded in rigorous theory, Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking is the first in-depth study of the 2010 violence in Kyrgyzstan to be published in English. Recognizing the limitations of his data, Kutmanaliev avoids making causal claims where the evidence is lacking, which allows him to come to a more convincing conclusion about the determinants of peace and violence.” Edward Lemon, Texas A&M University and editor of Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia“Joldon Kutmanaliev argues for an approach to urban violence that pays attention to microdynamics within cities. Highlighting two main mechanisms – intergroup non-aggression pacts and within-group policing – the book applies and develops existing theoretical arguments to a new unit of analysis, considers the role of spatial dynamics in shaping these theoretical mechanisms, and explores a largely understudied case.” Emma Elfversson, Uppsala University and co-editor of The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities
£84.15
Columbia University Press Children Affected by Armed Conflict
Book SynopsisThis book crosses cultures and contexts to capture a range of perspectives on the realities of armed conflict and its aftermath for children. Including war-affected children in their analyses, the contributors to this volume highlight innovative methodologies that directly involve children in the research process.Trade ReviewThis timely and impressive volume utilizes a socioecological framework to examine the experiences of children affected by armed conflict. Using a holistic approach that considers children's diverse cultures and contexts, the contributors illuminate the complexities of war and postwar realities on the everyday lives of children. -- Sophie Yohani, University of Alberta This is a powerful book-a must-read. Its strength lies in its empathy; and in how it eschews categories, avoids simplicity, transcends binaries, and turns limits into opportunities. While recognizing their suffering, and doing so with great sensitivity, this book also foregrounds the humanity, resilience, intrepidness, and potential of all children affected by armed violence. -- Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee University Far from sparing children, war exposes young persons to physical harm and other deprivations, including separation from family and forcible displacement. This volume draws on case studies from across the globe to provide an invaluable, contemporary analysis of theories, methods, and practices by which to address the needs of children affected by armed conflict. -- Diane Marie Amann, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaches to Studying Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Reflections on Theory, Method, and Practice, by Myriam Denov and Bree AkessonPart I. Understanding the Realities of Children in Armed Conflict: Theoretical And Conceptual Considerations1. “Raising the Dead” and Cultivating Resilience: Postcolonial Theory and Children’s Narratives from Swat, Pakistan, by Lubna N. Chaudhry2. Young Children’s Experiences of Connectedness and Belonging in Postconflict Sri Lanka: A Socioecological Approach, by Nanditha Hettitantri and Fay Hadley3. Contending with Vio lence and Discrimination: Using a Social Exclusion Lens to Understand the Realities of Burmese Muslim Refugee Children in Thailand, by Mollie Pepper4. A Social Constructionist Approach to Understanding the Experiences of Girls Affected by Armed Conflict in Colombia, by Maria Camila Ospina- Alvarado, Sara Victoria Alvarado, Jaime Alberto Carmona, and Hector Fabio Ospina5. Armed with Resilience: Tapping into the Experiences and Survival Skills of Formerly Abducted Girl Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda, by Jessica A. LenzPart II. Methodological Approaches to Understanding the Realities of Children Affected by Armed Conflict6. Socioecological Research Methods with Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Examples from Northern Uganda and Palestine, by Bree Akesson and Myriam Denov7. What Children and Youth Can Tell Us: A Rapid Ethnography Approach to Understanding Harms to Children in Somaliland and Puntland, by Kathleen Kostelny, Ken Justus Ondoro, and Michael G. Wessells8. Surviving Disorder: Children, Vio lence, and War Stories in Liberia, by Sukanya Podder9. Reweaving Relating in Social Reintegration: Participatory Action Research with War-Affected Young Mothers and Their Children in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Uganda, by Angela Veale, Miranda Worthen, and Susan MckayPart III. Practice And Service Delivery: Professional Applications to Address the Realities of Children Affected by Armed Conflict10. Health Care Services to War-Affected Children in Northern Uganda: Accounting for Discrepancies Between Interventions and Children’s Needs, by Grace Akello11. When the System “Works”: Exploring the Experiences of Girl Survivors of Sexual Violence in Postconflict Liberia, by Debbie Landis and Lindsay Stark12. Working with Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Practical Protection Work During the Darfur Crisis in the Sudan, by Ghada Kachachi13. Meeting the Needs of Children Affected by Conflict: Teacher Training and Development in South Sudan, by Jan StewartConclusion: Putting the Pieces Together: Future Directions in Research with Children Affected by Armed Conflict, by Bree Akesson and Myriam DenovList of ContributorsIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Genealogies of Terrorism Revolution State
Book SynopsisVerena Erlenbusch rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.Trade ReviewErlenbusch-Anderson’s work is a brilliant contribution to Critical Terrorism Studies, not only deconstructing the labelling processes of this violence, but analysing these in relation to the historical, social, and political contexts that allowed the emergence of these dispositifs, and reflecting on the power relations embedded in these processes and societies in general. * Critical Studies on Terrorism *Makes a valuable contribution to an under-developed literature and she offers some tantalizing points of departure for future explorations of an important and timely subject. Genealogies is an eminently worthwhile read. * ID: International Dialogue *In Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire, Verena ErlenbuschAnderson takes on the ambitious project of providing a broadly Foucauldian genealogical account of the concept and practice of “terrorism.” -- Wendy Lynne Lee * ID: International Dialogue *One can only be impressed by the depth and scope of Erlenbusch-Anderson’s treatment of terrorism. . . . I should think that the impact of her book will reach beyond philosophy and political theory, beyond the academy. It is, to borrow a phrase, must reading for anyone who wants to understand the historical emergence of terrorism and how it continues to shape the contemporary world. -- Michael Clifford * Syndicate *This is an urgently needed intervention. The longstanding shared academic/policy-maker endeavor to define terrorism has failed spectacularly, to the point that cliché now best expresses the term’s meaning. . . . Genealogies of Terrorism is a refreshing refusal of both philosophical and political orthodoxies that have only obscured clarity on the subject of terrorism, whether they be a dogmatic insistence on the definitional enterprise or the outright refusal of history. -- C. Heike Schotten * Perspectives on Politics *Erlenbusch-Anderson provides an eloquent account of terrorism as a dispositif and compiles an impressive amount of historical evidence to locate and excavate various uses of the word 'terrorism' throughout its history. -- Sarah DiMaggio * Syndicate *Inspired by Wittgenstein and Foucault, and contemporary debates about concepts, in this remarkable book Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson undertakes a significant examination of terrorism. Rather than assuming its meaning and looking for that in her sources, she instead allows a multifaceted understanding to emerge from a historical study of texts and practices. A powerful and urgent intervention for our troubled times. -- Stuart Elden, University of WarwickThis book is political philosophy at its best. It offers an instructive model of mobilizing philosophical genealogy for a critique of a highly-charged idea. It complicates the seeming obviousness with which the concept of 'terrorism' is today purveyed. Through meticulous historical and philosophical analysis, this book shows how the concept of terrorism came to be an explosive, dangerous, and contested political idea. -- Colin Koopman, University of OregonVerena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s careful genealogy of 'terrorism'—tracking the term’s multiple and overdetermined meanings since its first appearance as a political concept in the late eighteenth century—powerfully shows us how we all too frequently ask the wrong questions about terrorism. This critical book offers a necessary corrective to how we think about terrorism, and it reshapes the grounds upon which we should have any meaningful debate about terrorism in the present moment. -- Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount UniversityAn empirically rich, carefully contextualized and well-documented study of the different forms that terrorism has taken over time. * Political Theory *Offers scholars, students, and policymakers alike a lot to think about. * H-War *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Trouble with Terrorism2. The Emergence of Terrorism3. State Terrorism Revisited4. Terrorism and Colonialism5. Reimagining Terrorism at the End of History6. Towards a Critical Theory of Terrorism: Genealogy and NormativityNotesBibliographyIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Genealogies of Terrorism
Book SynopsisVerena Erlenbusch rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.Trade ReviewErlenbusch-Anderson’s work is a brilliant contribution to Critical Terrorism Studies, not only deconstructing the labelling processes of this violence, but analysing these in relation to the historical, social, and political contexts that allowed the emergence of these dispositifs, and reflecting on the power relations embedded in these processes and societies in general. * Critical Studies on Terrorism *Makes a valuable contribution to an under-developed literature and she offers some tantalizing points of departure for future explorations of an important and timely subject. Genealogies is an eminently worthwhile read. * ID: International Dialogue *In Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire, Verena ErlenbuschAnderson takes on the ambitious project of providing a broadly Foucauldian genealogical account of the concept and practice of “terrorism.” -- Wendy Lynne Lee * ID: International Dialogue *One can only be impressed by the depth and scope of Erlenbusch-Anderson’s treatment of terrorism. . . . I should think that the impact of her book will reach beyond philosophy and political theory, beyond the academy. It is, to borrow a phrase, must reading for anyone who wants to understand the historical emergence of terrorism and how it continues to shape the contemporary world. -- Michael Clifford * Syndicate *This is an urgently needed intervention. The longstanding shared academic/policy-maker endeavor to define terrorism has failed spectacularly, to the point that cliché now best expresses the term’s meaning. . . . Genealogies of Terrorism is a refreshing refusal of both philosophical and political orthodoxies that have only obscured clarity on the subject of terrorism, whether they be a dogmatic insistence on the definitional enterprise or the outright refusal of history. -- C. Heike Schotten * Perspectives on Politics *Erlenbusch-Anderson provides an eloquent account of terrorism as a dispositif and compiles an impressive amount of historical evidence to locate and excavate various uses of the word 'terrorism' throughout its history. -- Sarah DiMaggio * Syndicate *Inspired by Wittgenstein and Foucault, and contemporary debates about concepts, in this remarkable book Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson undertakes a significant examination of terrorism. Rather than assuming its meaning and looking for that in her sources, she instead allows a multifaceted understanding to emerge from a historical study of texts and practices. A powerful and urgent intervention for our troubled times. -- Stuart Elden, University of WarwickThis book is political philosophy at its best. It offers an instructive model of mobilizing philosophical genealogy for a critique of a highly-charged idea. It complicates the seeming obviousness with which the concept of 'terrorism' is today purveyed. Through meticulous historical and philosophical analysis, this book shows how the concept of terrorism came to be an explosive, dangerous, and contested political idea. -- Colin Koopman, University of OregonVerena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s careful genealogy of 'terrorism'—tracking the term’s multiple and overdetermined meanings since its first appearance as a political concept in the late eighteenth century—powerfully shows us how we all too frequently ask the wrong questions about terrorism. This critical book offers a necessary corrective to how we think about terrorism, and it reshapes the grounds upon which we should have any meaningful debate about terrorism in the present moment. -- Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount UniversityAn empirically rich, carefully contextualized and well-documented study of the different forms that terrorism has taken over time. * Political Theory *Offers scholars, students, and policymakers alike a lot to think about. * H-War *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Trouble with Terrorism2. The Emergence of Terrorism3. State Terrorism Revisited4. Terrorism and Colonialism5. Reimagining Terrorism at the End of History6. Towards a Critical Theory of Terrorism: Genealogy and NormativityNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Danger Imperative
Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers’ perception and practice of violence.Trade ReviewMichael Sierra-Arévalo compellingly narrates and deconstructs one of the most powerful public beliefs about American policing today: that it is uniquely dangerous and should thus be inoculated from criticism and real change. Beautifully written and rigorously researched, The Danger Imperative should transform how we understand policing at its core. -- Monica C. Bell, Yale Law SchoolThis clear-eyed analysis lays bare how the "danger imperative"—the preoccupation with violence and the presumption of threat—shapes police culture and guides everyday interactions between police and everyone else. Sierra-Arévalo offers a sophisticated understanding of police officer decision making and how the police institution promotes particular behaviors. This important and timely book should be on the shelves of anyone interested in understanding policing in this country. -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationMichael Sierra-Arévalo has brought a new level of scientific rigor to the study of policing. His research documents how a relentless focus on danger is reinforced through training, channels of information sharing, and institutional practices that provide a constant reminder of the threat posed by every person with whom an officer interacts. The danger imperative dominates policing and helps explain why the institution is so resistant to meaningful reforms. -- Patrick Sharkey, author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on ViolenceMichael Sierra-Arévalo has written an important book that helps us understand why policing in America can be so violent. From academy training to the roll call of the morning shift to the remembrance of fallen officers, police are taught to live in a world filled with mortal danger, even at times when no danger exists. By looking closely at the working lives of patrol officers and rejecting simple tropes of heroes or villains, The Danger Imperative explains why the institution that is charged with keeping us safe can also cause so much harm. -- Bruce Western, author of Homeward: Life in the Year After PrisonBased on rigorous observation and insightful analysis across three police departments, The Danger Imperative is a sobering journey into the "soul" of U.S. public law enforcement—one that reveals police violence not as the product of "bad apples" but as an expected outcome born out of an organizational fixation on death and danger. Carefully attending to police culture on its own terms without losing sight of the broader inequalities that policing reflects and reproduces, Sierra-Arévalo reveals the largely obscured and unappreciated stamp of the "danger imperative" in the everyday rituals of policing as it amplifies officers’ fears of vulnerability, exacerbates the perceived likelihood of violence, and crowds out other orientations toward policing. Necessary and troubling, The Danger Imperative shifts the conversation from how police make violence to how violence makes police—and in doing so, invites us to reimagine the relationship between officer safety and public safety in ways that move beyond superficial reforms—and encourages us to rethink our own investment in the danger imperative. -- Jennifer Carlson, author of Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American DemocracyThrough deep immersion in the worlds of police, Sierra-Arévalo shows how policing continually re-creates a worldview of acute danger in every civilian encounter. From this sense of constant threat comes a justifying ideology that privileges the possibility of violence toward the policed—sometimes preemptive and often racialized—to ensure officer survival. The Danger Imperative skillfully locates officers and the public within the institutional and social worlds of policing and reveals the situated exchanges that sustain officers’ fear and justify their practices. This remarkable book should be read and taught in criminology and sociology and, importantly, throughout the police profession. -- Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolViolence against the police is at a historic low, and it is hard to find evidence of a "war on cops." Indeed, police work is usually routine and uneventful. But in this powerful ethnography, Sierra-Arévalo shows us how police departments create a culture where "officer safety" is the organizing principle—the "soul"—of police work. Clearly written and nuanced, The Danger Imperative should be read by anyone concerned with policing today. -- Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family LifeFrom the first day at the academy to the last call at the retirement banquet, a preoccupation with violence and survival runs like a blue thread through American policing. With painstaking research and firsthand observation, Sierra-Arévalo brilliantly traces this "danger imperative" in police training, operations, and seldom seen rituals. A masterful contribution, from its harrowing opening pages to its clear-eyed conclusion. -- Christopher Uggen, coauthor of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American DemocracyThe Danger Imperative showcases how danger becomes routinized as an organizing principle of policing through training and the day-to-day practices of officers. Sierra-Arévalo convincingly captures the heart of policing as an institution, and we are left with an understanding of why current proposals for reforming the police often overlook the heart of the problem. The significance of this contribution cannot be overstated. -- Brittany Friedman, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Survival School2. Ghosts of the Fallen3. The Threat Network4. Going Home at NightConclusionMethodological Appendix And ReflectionNotesIndex
£85.00
Columbia University Press The Danger Imperative
Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers' perception and practice of violence.Trade ReviewMichael Sierra-Arévalo compellingly narrates and deconstructs one of the most powerful public beliefs about American policing today: that it is uniquely dangerous and should thus be inoculated from criticism and real change. Beautifully written and rigorously researched, The Danger Imperative should transform how we understand policing at its core. -- Monica C. Bell, Yale Law SchoolThis clear-eyed analysis lays bare how the "danger imperative"—the preoccupation with violence and the presumption of threat—shapes police culture and guides everyday interactions between police and everyone else. Sierra-Arévalo offers a sophisticated understanding of police officer decision making and how the police institution promotes particular behaviors. This important and timely book should be on the shelves of anyone interested in understanding policing in this country. -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationMichael Sierra-Arévalo has brought a new level of scientific rigor to the study of policing. His research documents how a relentless focus on danger is reinforced through training, channels of information sharing, and institutional practices that provide a constant reminder of the threat posed by every person with whom an officer interacts. The danger imperative dominates policing and helps explain why the institution is so resistant to meaningful reforms. -- Patrick Sharkey, author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on ViolenceMichael Sierra-Arévalo has written an important book that helps us understand why policing in America can be so violent. From academy training to the roll call of the morning shift to the remembrance of fallen officers, police are taught to live in a world filled with mortal danger, even at times when no danger exists. By looking closely at the working lives of patrol officers and rejecting simple tropes of heroes or villains, The Danger Imperative explains why the institution that is charged with keeping us safe can also cause so much harm. -- Bruce Western, author of Homeward: Life in the Year After PrisonBased on rigorous observation and insightful analysis across three police departments, The Danger Imperative is a sobering journey into the "soul" of U.S. public law enforcement—one that reveals police violence not as the product of "bad apples" but as an expected outcome born out of an organizational fixation on death and danger. Carefully attending to police culture on its own terms without losing sight of the broader inequalities that policing reflects and reproduces, Sierra-Arévalo reveals the largely obscured and unappreciated stamp of the "danger imperative" in the everyday rituals of policing as it amplifies officers’ fears of vulnerability, exacerbates the perceived likelihood of violence, and crowds out other orientations toward policing. Necessary and troubling, The Danger Imperative shifts the conversation from how police make violence to how violence makes police—and in doing so, invites us to reimagine the relationship between officer safety and public safety in ways that move beyond superficial reforms—and encourages us to rethink our own investment in the danger imperative. -- Jennifer Carlson, author of Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American DemocracyThrough deep immersion in the worlds of police, Sierra-Arévalo shows how policing continually re-creates a worldview of acute danger in every civilian encounter. From this sense of constant threat comes a justifying ideology that privileges the possibility of violence toward the policed—sometimes preemptive and often racialized—to ensure officer survival. The Danger Imperative skillfully locates officers and the public within the institutional and social worlds of policing and reveals the situated exchanges that sustain officers’ fear and justify their practices. This remarkable book should be read and taught in criminology and sociology and, importantly, throughout the police profession. -- Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolViolence against the police is at a historic low, and it is hard to find evidence of a "war on cops." Indeed, police work is usually routine and uneventful. But in this powerful ethnography, Sierra-Arévalo shows us how police departments create a culture where "officer safety" is the organizing principle—the "soul"—of police work. Clearly written and nuanced, The Danger Imperative should be read by anyone concerned with policing today. -- Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family LifeFrom the first day at the academy to the last call at the retirement banquet, a preoccupation with violence and survival runs like a blue thread through American policing. With painstaking research and firsthand observation, Sierra-Arévalo brilliantly traces this "danger imperative" in police training, operations, and seldom seen rituals. A masterful contribution, from its harrowing opening pages to its clear-eyed conclusion. -- Christopher Uggen, coauthor of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American DemocracyThe Danger Imperative showcases how danger becomes routinized as an organizing principle of policing through training and the day-to-day practices of officers. Sierra-Arévalo convincingly captures the heart of policing as an institution, and we are left with an understanding of why current proposals for reforming the police often overlook the heart of the problem. The significance of this contribution cannot be overstated. -- Brittany Friedman, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Survival School2. Ghosts of the Fallen3. The Threat Network4. Going Home at NightConclusionMethodological Appendix And ReflectionNotesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Beyond Partition Gender Violence and
Book SynopsisShows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other.Trade ReviewEugene M. Kayden Book Award in Literary Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016. "An original and engaging piece of scholarship. It ranges widely and easily across materials in many genres and disciplines; it demonstrates a very fine eye for the telling textual detail; in a field vulnerable to sentimentality, it is clear-eyed and willing to pose uncomfortable questions; and it is written with verve and force." --Parama Roy, University of California, Davis"Engaging and evocative. I thought I was familiar with almost all of the topics addressed in the book, but after reading it I have emerged with a more nuanced understanding."--Sujata Moorti, author of Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres"A new and valuable addition to the rich store of work on Partition. Deepti Misri's book breaks new ground in drawing on a varied and multi-layered archive which brings in the literary, the historical, the visual and the performative, to attempt an understanding of culture and violence in the context of the history of Partition and nation-making, teasing out a nuanced, and feminist, history of the 'then' and the 'now.'"--Urvashi Butalia, author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India"This brilliant and exciting book illuminates how representational practices of violence are co-constitutive of power and resistance."--Pacific Affairs
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MO - University of Illinois Press Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru Decolonizing Transitional Justice
Trade Review"Cutting-edge and original. Bueno-Hansen reveals the meaning behind the rhetoric of human rights promotion in the aftermath of conflict. Using an approach that articulates gender, ethnicity, and coloniality, she illuminates the impact of human rights-based justice processes on marginalized peoples' lives."--Elisabeth Jay Friedman, author of Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996"This book provides remarkable insights into the overlap and disjunctions between the human rights movement's response to atrocities involving women, the response of the feminist movement, and the needs of the women who have been harmed. It is an important and nuanced contribution to the literature on the gendered realities of post-conflict societies. Set in Peru, nonetheless it speaks to a universal experience of conflict and its aftermath."--Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, co-editor of Guantánamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective"In this interdisciplinary and theoretically innovative book, Pascha Bueno-Hansen makes important contributions not only to scholarship on gender and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but also to broader debates in the fields of transitional justice and in gender and women's studies by explicitly demonstrating the importance of an intersectional analysis for a full understanding of post-war contexts." --Christina Ewig, author of Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru"A compelling analysis of the Peruvian transitional justice process. Bueno-Hansen expands the framework of transitional justice to encompass the afterlife of colonialism. She extends the definition of gender-based violences beyond sexual violence. Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru is soundly argued and thought provoking."--Rosa-Linda Fregoso, coeditor of Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas
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MO - University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence Volume 1
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to the global study of lynching, mob violence, and vigilantism. The book provides historical depth, theoretical perspective and covers a wide chronological and geographical range. It will be of great benefit to all students of collective violence."--Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America"Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on extralegal violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is an important contribution to our understanding of lynching. The essays cover an impressive geographic range and a multitude of time periods. Readers with an interest in the often violent history of state formation as well as the past and present politics of identity, ethnicity, class, and gender will find this volume very rewarding."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Global Lynching and Collective Violence is an excellent introduction to the emerging scholars and scholarship in the field of extralegal violence."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Michael J. Pfeifer Lynching, Public Violence, and the Internet in Indonesia Laurens Bakker A Different Kind of War: Summary Execution and the Politics of Men of Force in Late-Qing China, 1864-1911 Weiting Guo Banzai! And the Others Die-Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking 78 Frank Jacob Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal 103 Yogesh Raj Public Anger, Violence, and the Legacy of Decolonization in India 126 Nandana Dutta New Situations Demand Old Magic: Necklacing in South Africa, Past and Present 156 Nicholas Rush Smith 7 Sitting on the Volcano: Mob Violence and Lynching in the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 185 Shaiel Ben-Ephraim and Or Honig Contributors 223 Index 227
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence Volume 2
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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University of Illinois Press Assassins against the Old Order
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Assassins Against the Old Order is a significant historical study and a tribute to an eminent scholar." --Ovunque Siamo"An outstanding book that deftly moves from an analysis of economic, political, and social conditions to the human scale through intimate descriptions of the values, lives, and actions of the most famous anarchist assassins. In explaining anarchist violence, it shows that the assassins aimed at killing symbols of state power and not persons."--Spencer Di Scala, author of Europe's Long Century: Politics, Society, Culture 1900-2000"Pernicone's posthumously published work will open many eyes about Italian anarchist and their attentats (actions). Readers who want a clear understanding of Italian anarchism and anarchists will be well repaid by reading Assassins against the Old Order. Highly Recommended." --Choice"This is history at its best-meticulously researched, filled with insightful details, and highly provocative. Pernicone and Ottanelli's book effectively explodes prevailing assumptions about fin-de-siècle Italian anarchists, showing that far from the 'born criminals' and degenerate madmen depicted in the yellow press they were a varied group of quite ordinary members of the working class who resist easy generalizations. Coming out at a time of unprecedented misinformation, misinterpretation and anti-intellectualism, Assassins against the Old Order also powerfully reminds us that anarchist violence cannot be conflated with contemporary definitions of 'terrorism' and that human behavior cannot be understood apart from the distinctive historical conditions and personal motivations of its actors. A must read for anyone interested in anarchism and, more broadly, the turbulent political history of late-nineteenth century Europe."--Marcella Bencivenni, author of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940"The definitive study of nineteenth-century anarchist violence." --H-Net Reviews"Pernicone and Ottanelli have clearly opened new ground, and their original, commendable book will be a necessary reference for students on fin de siècle Anarchism and Italian social history." --Journal of Modern Italian Studies"An excellent new study." --History News Network"Such an excellent work." --American Historical Review "Pernicone and Ottanelli create well-rounded portraits of the anarchist assassins as well as a powerful fresco of the socio-political context in which they operated. By the end of this volume, we readers have learned enough of the giustiziere to identify him as he walks shoulder to shoulder with the workers who crowd Pelizza da Volpedo’s Quarto stat." --Annali d'Italianistica
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University of Illinois Press Ending GenderBased Violence
Book SynopsisSouth African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence.Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutionswith a focus on arrests and prosecutionsfails to address the complexities of the problem and looks at how changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workeTrade Review“Britton’s sobering book offers an incisive, comprehensive view of what works and what doesn’t work in South African efforts to stop gender-based violence. Not only does this book document practical ways to end gender-based violence, but it also advances transnational feminist research on the subject. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about eliminating gender-based violence.”—Ashley Currier, author of Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa”A very important book. The contribution lies in its thorough empirical research with communities, stakeholders, feminist activists, the places where violence takes place, and the police. This is the first research that is so encompassing, giving us a view of gender-based violence from the ground up.”—Amanda Gouws, coeditor of Gender and Multiculturalism: North-South Perspectives
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University of Illinois Press Carceral Liberalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A uniquely valuable intervention. Those of us--and I would say that is the majority of us who live our lives ‘in freedom’--are importuned by the book’s address, to wake up, to care, because what we perceive as our ‘freedom’ made available, so we think, as a consequence of living in the crucible of liberal ideals and beliefs--is inextricably bound up with the logics of incarceration.”--Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women SingersTable of ContentsForeword Demita Frazier Acknowledgments Introduction Shreerekha Pillai Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus” and “Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784″ 1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity Cassandra D. Little 2. Prisons and Politics: Conceptualizing Prison Memoirs Shailza Sharma 3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire Shreerekha Pillai 4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum Beth Matusoff Merfish Poems: Ravi Shankar, “Against Innocence” and “Sunday School” The Stories that will not be Confined Poems: Solmaz Sharif, “Reaching Guantánamo” Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems Poem: Jeremy Eugene, “Space” 5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined Joanna Eleftheriou 6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization and Rituals of Democracy in Texas Francisco Argüelles Paz y Puente, aka Pancho 7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices Beyond the State Autumn Elizabeth, Zarinah Agnew, D Coulombe 8. Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial 9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Gendered Nativism and the Experience of Ambivalence among Displaced Syrian Iraqi and Women and Children in Houston, Texas Maria F. Curtis 10. Gendered Punishment and Social Control: Silenced Memories of Women in Wartime Peru Marta Romero-Delgado 11. Bad Girls of Pindra Tod Alka Kurian Poem: Javier Zamora, “Citizenship” Contributors Index
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Book SynopsisOften considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.Trade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to the global study of lynching, mob violence, and vigilantism. The book provides historical depth, theoretical perspective and covers a wide chronological and geographical range. It will be of great benefit to all students of collective violence."--Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America"Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on extralegal violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is an important contribution to our understanding of lynching. The essays cover an impressive geographic range and a multitude of time periods. Readers with an interest in the often violent history of state formation as well as the past and present politics of identity, ethnicity, class, and gender will find this volume very rewarding."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Global Lynching and Collective Violence is an excellent introduction to the emerging scholars and scholarship in the field of extralegal violence."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Michael J. Pfeifer Lynching, Public Violence, and the Internet in Indonesia Laurens Bakker A Different Kind of War: Summary Execution and the Politics of Men of Force in Late-Qing China, 1864-1911 Weiting Guo Banzai! And the Others Die-Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking 78 Frank Jacob Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal 103 Yogesh Raj Public Anger, Violence, and the Legacy of Decolonization in India 126 Nandana Dutta New Situations Demand Old Magic: Necklacing in South Africa, Past and Present 156 Nicholas Rush Smith 7 Sitting on the Volcano: Mob Violence and Lynching in the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 185 Shaiel Ben-Ephraim and Or Honig Contributors 223 Index 227
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial rough justice as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late twentieth century. Contributors: Trade Review"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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Indiana University Press Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great
Book SynopsisPresents a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external sources of both persistent tension and creative peace-buildingTrade ReviewThe African Great Lakes Region has been overwhelmingly shaped by war. An international group of scholars examines the region's conflicts and efforts to re-establish peace, observing that no single approach will suffice by itself.Dec. 2014 - Jan.2015 * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker HepnerPart I. The Great Lakes Region: Challenges of the Past and Present1. Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region Kenneth Omeje2. The History and Politics of Regionalism and Integration in East AfricaHannington Ochwada3. Multipolar Politics and Regional Integration in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Non-State Actors Doreen AlusaPart II. Case Studies of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes4. Historical Dynamics of Northern Uganda Conflict: A Longitudinal Struggle for Nation-Building Elias Omondi Opongo5. Kofi Annan's Conflict Resolution Model and Peacebuilding in KenyaAlfred Anangwe6. Justice versus Reconciliation: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in KenyaOzonnia Ojielo7. Climate Change and Peacebuilding among Pastoralist Communities in Northeastern Uganda and Western Kenya Julaina A. Obika and Harriet K. BibangambahPart III. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes 8. Media Sustainability in a Post-Conflict Environment: Radio Broadcasting in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda Marie-Soleil Frère9. Youth in Transition: The Arts and Cultural Resonance in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda Lindsay M. McClain and Tricia Redeker Hepner10. Gender Issues in Reintegration: A Feminist and Rights-Based Analysis of the Experiences of Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda Eric Awich Ochen11. "The Ambivalence of the Sacred": Christianity, Genocide and Reconciliation in Rwanda Janine Natalya ClarkList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great
Book SynopsisPresents a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external sources of both persistent tension and creative peace-buildingTrade ReviewThe African Great Lakes Region has been overwhelmingly shaped by war. An international group of scholars examines the region's conflicts and efforts to re-establish peace, observing that no single approach will suffice by itself.Dec. 2014 - Jan.2015 * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker HepnerPart I. The Great Lakes Region: Challenges of the Past and Present1. Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region Kenneth Omeje2. The History and Politics of Regionalism and Integration in East AfricaHannington Ochwada3. Multipolar Politics and Regional Integration in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Non-State Actors Doreen AlusaPart II. Case Studies of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes4. Historical Dynamics of Northern Uganda Conflict: A Longitudinal Struggle for Nation-Building Elias Omondi Opongo5. Kofi Annan's Conflict Resolution Model and Peacebuilding in KenyaAlfred Anangwe6. Justice versus Reconciliation: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in KenyaOzonnia Ojielo7. Climate Change and Peacebuilding among Pastoralist Communities in Northeastern Uganda and Western Kenya Julaina A. Obika and Harriet K. BibangambahPart III. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes 8. Media Sustainability in a Post-Conflict Environment: Radio Broadcasting in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda Marie-Soleil Frère9. Youth in Transition: The Arts and Cultural Resonance in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda Lindsay M. McClain and Tricia Redeker Hepner10. Gender Issues in Reintegration: A Feminist and Rights-Based Analysis of the Experiences of Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda Eric Awich Ochen11. "The Ambivalence of the Sacred": Christianity, Genocide and Reconciliation in Rwanda Janine Natalya ClarkList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Women and Genocide
Book SynopsisTrade Review Women and Genocide is an immense scholarly accomplishment that has the potential to fund creative advances in each of the scholarly disciplines it engages, as well as human rights, peace, and anti-violence programs of advocacy. * Reading Religion *This book is a must, not only for classes on gender and sexuality, war and genocide, and feminist studies, but also approachable for anyone interested in war, genocide, or gender as it explores an uncommon, yet crucial, aspect of genocide. -- Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface / Joyce W. WarrenIntroduction: Memory, Body, and Power: Women and the Study of Genocide / Elissa Bemporad1. The Gendered Logics of Indigenous Genocide / Andrea Smith2. Women and the Herero Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey3. Arshaluys Mardigian/Aurora Mardiganian: Absorption, Stardom, Exploitation, and Empowerment / Donna-Lee Frieze4. "Hyphenated" Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism / Olga Bertelsen5. Gender: A Crucial Tool in Holocaust Research / Marion Kaplan6. German Women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East / Wendy Lower7. Romani Girls: Resiliency and Caretaking during the Holocaust in Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso8. Birangona: Bearing Witness in War and 'Peace' / Bina D'Costa9. Very Superstitious: Gendered Punishment in Democratic Kampuchea , 1975-1979 / Trude Jacobsen10. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos Alvarez-Arenas and Kathleen Dill11. Gender and the Military in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Georgina Holmes12. Narratives of Survivors of Srebrenica: How Do They Reconnect to the World? / Selma Leydesdorff13. The Plight and Fate of Females during and Following the Darfur Genocide / Samuel Totten14. Grassroots Women's Participation in Addressing Conflict and Genocide: Case Studies from the MENA Region and Latin America / Lisa David and Cassandra AtlasSelected Bibliography: Further ReadingsIndex
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Indiana University Press Mass Violence in NaziOccupied Europe
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe is an excellent work that makes a compelling argument for a more comprehensive study of Third Reich criminality, encompassing more than the Final Solution. It provides a very effective synopsis of the state of play of Holocaust-related research and the important work being done by international scholars in a number of less-explored fields. -- Mark Montesclaros * H-War *A groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II * New Books Network - Genocide *The volume features fascinating case studies that complicate our understanding of Nazi occupational policies or reinforce our growing appreciation of its messiness on the ground. -- Katrin Paehler * European History Quarterly *For those who can stomach the descriptions of barbaric acts, Mass Violence in Nazi Europe provides the histories of victims who have been forgotten or erased from well-known narratives and resituates the understanding of Nazi terror as being exercised mainly in Eastern Europe. Kay and Stahel should be commended for taking on such an important volume. -- Sanjana Rajagopal - Fordham University * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroductionAlex J. Kay / David StahelPart I. HOLOCAUST1: Hitler's Generals in the East and the HolocaustJohannes Hürter2:Jews Sent into the Occupied Soviet Territories for Labor Deployment, 1942–1943Martin Dean Chapter 3: Were the Jews of North Africa included in the Practical Planning for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"?Dan MichmanPart II. SINTI AND ROMA4: "The definitive solution to the Gypsy question": The Pan-European Genocide of the European RomaWolfgang Wippermann 5: Deadly Odyssey: East Prussian Sinti in Białystok, Brest-Litovsk and Auschwitz-BirkenauMartin Holler Part III. "USELESS EATERS"6: Soviet Prisoners of War in National Socialist Concentration Camps: Current Knowledge and Research DesiderataReinhard Otto / Rolf Keller7: The Murder of Psychiatric Patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939–1945Ulrike Winkler / Gerrit Hohendorf Part IV. WEHRMACHT8: Reconceiving Criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941/1942Alex J. Kay / David Stahel9: Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi EastWaitman Wade BeornPart V. MEMORIALIZATION10: The Holocaust in the Occupied USSR and its Memorialization in Contemporary RussiaIl'ya Al'tmanChapter 11: The Baltic Movement to Obfuscate the HolocaustDovid Katz Part VI. HISTORY AS COMPARISON12: Comparing Soviet and Nazi Mass CrimesHans-Heinrich NolteSelected BibliographyIndex
£63.00
Indiana University Press Mass Violence in NaziOccupied Europe
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe is an excellent work that makes a compelling argument for a more comprehensive study of Third Reich criminality, encompassing more than the Final Solution. It provides a very effective synopsis of the state of play of Holocaust-related research and the important work being done by international scholars in a number of less-explored fields. -- Mark Montesclaros * H-War *A groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II * New Books Network - Genocide *The volume features fascinating case studies that complicate our understanding of Nazi occupational policies or reinforce our growing appreciation of its messiness on the ground. -- Katrin Paehler * European History Quarterly *For those who can stomach the descriptions of barbaric acts, Mass Violence in Nazi Europe provides the histories of victims who have been forgotten or erased from well-known narratives and resituates the understanding of Nazi terror as being exercised mainly in Eastern Europe. Kay and Stahel should be commended for taking on such an important volume. -- Sanjana Rajagopal - Fordham University * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroductionAlex J. Kay / David StahelPart I. HOLOCAUST1: Hitler's Generals in the East and the HolocaustJohannes Hürter2:Jews Sent into the Occupied Soviet Territories for Labor Deployment, 1942–1943Martin Dean Chapter 3: Were the Jews of North Africa included in the Practical Planning for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"?Dan MichmanPart II. SINTI AND ROMA4: "The definitive solution to the Gypsy question": The Pan-European Genocide of the European RomaWolfgang Wippermann 5: Deadly Odyssey: East Prussian Sinti in Białystok, Brest-Litovsk and Auschwitz-BirkenauMartin Holler Part III. "USELESS EATERS"6: Soviet Prisoners of War in National Socialist Concentration Camps: Current Knowledge and Research DesiderataReinhard Otto / Rolf Keller7: The Murder of Psychiatric Patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939–1945Ulrike Winkler / Gerrit Hohendorf Part IV. WEHRMACHT8: Reconceiving Criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941/1942Alex J. Kay / David Stahel9: Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi EastWaitman Wade BeornPart V. MEMORIALIZATION10: The Holocaust in the Occupied USSR and its Memorialization in Contemporary RussiaIl'ya Al'tmanChapter 11: The Baltic Movement to Obfuscate the HolocaustDovid Katz Part VI. HISTORY AS COMPARISON12: Comparing Soviet and Nazi Mass CrimesHans-Heinrich NolteSelected BibliographyIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers IsraeliArab
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers offers a refreshing approach to understanding the Israeli-Arab conflict and peace process. By examining the role of spoiling and spoilers, it engages the reader in questions about the potential for and challenges to peace in the region. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theoretical and Historical Contexts / Galia Golan1. Spoiling International Peace Negotiations from Within the Room / Gilead Sher and Deborah Shulman2. The Leadership as a Spoiler / Roee Kibrik and Maya Kornberg3. Israel's Domestic Legal Struggle Against the Settlements: Spoiler-advancing, Spoiler-hindering, or Spoiler-Exposing? / Shlomy Zachary4. The American Jewish Diaspora as a Spoiler / Ofira Seliktar5. Visual Spoilers? Peace and Conflict in Israeli Political Cartoons / Tamir Shaeffer, Ilan Danjoux, Shira Dabir-Gvirshman, and Shaul Shenhav6. The Psychological Effects of Forced Evacuation: The Case of Jewish Settlers in the West Bank / Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Tamar Saguy, and Gilad Hirschberger7. Coping with Spoilers: A Comparative Analysis / Galia GolanIndex
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Indiana University Press Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers IsraeliArab
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers offers a refreshing approach to understanding the Israeli-Arab conflict and peace process. By examining the role of spoiling and spoilers, it engages the reader in questions about the potential for and challenges to peace in the region. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theoretical and Historical Contexts / Galia Golan1. Spoiling International Peace Negotiations from Within the Room / Gilead Sher and Deborah Shulman2. The Leadership as a Spoiler / Roee Kibrik and Maya Kornberg3. Israel's Domestic Legal Struggle Against the Settlements: Spoiler-advancing, Spoiler-hindering, or Spoiler-Exposing? / Shlomy Zachary4. The American Jewish Diaspora as a Spoiler / Ofira Seliktar5. Visual Spoilers? Peace and Conflict in Israeli Political Cartoons / Tamir Shaeffer, Ilan Danjoux, Shira Dabir-Gvirshman, and Shaul Shenhav6. The Psychological Effects of Forced Evacuation: The Case of Jewish Settlers in the West Bank / Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Tamar Saguy, and Gilad Hirschberger7. Coping with Spoilers: A Comparative Analysis / Galia GolanIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press The Terrorist Trap Second Edition
Book SynopsisChronicles the US response to terrorism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary pirates to the confrontation of George Bush and Saddam Hussein. This title explores the terrorist trap: the psychological, political, and social elements that make terrorism unlike any other conflict.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition: "A solid, commonsense look at a phenomenon capable of producing the strongest emotions... Simon's predictions for the future, and what our responses should be, seem reasoned and right. Informative." Booklist "In a disturbing, timely, compelling report, [Simon] scrutinizes America's response to terrorism ... he outlines steps that governments, intelligence agencies and the news media can take to reduce terrorists' psychological advantage and to thwart their actions." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The first edition of this book was written in 1994, which means that much more recent information about terrorism is absent and the author provides, in part, a useful snapshot of the attitudes of the time... Lots of information, pro-US analysis, selective omissions, and one warning about "aerial terrorism"--written in 1994--who says the Bush administration had no clues about what might happen to tall buildings in New York? This is a purportedly academic text intended to underwrite US ideology--a typical example of the genre."--Morning Star, 20 August 2002Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:Introduction to the Second EditionPrologue1. Welcome to Reality2. The Endless Nature of Terrorism3. The Threat Emerges4. The Setting of the Terrorist Trap5. Tough Talk on Terrorism6. The Mother of All Hostage Takers7. Media Players8. Roots9. Future Trends10.Lessons LearnedEpilogueInterviewsNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£18.04
Indiana University Press Murder Made in Italy Homicide Media and
Book SynopsisAnalyses questions of cultural violenceTrade Review[T]his book provides food for thought for those studying Italy from a wide variety of perspectives. * Contemporary Italian Politics *Nerenberg's study represents a useful tool for the reading of contemporary Italy crimes from a cultural studies perspective. * H-Italy *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making a KillingPart I: Serial Killing 1. The "Monster" of Florence: Serial Murders and investigation2. Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian Literature3. Penile Procedure: The Pleasures and Dangers of Looking in Dario Argento's CinemaPart II: Matricide and Fratricide Erika, Omar, and Violent Youth in Italy4. "Sono stati loro:" Erika, Omar, and the Double Homicide of Susy Cassini and Gianluca De Nardo in Novi Ligure 5. The Raw and the Cooked: Transnational Media and Violence in Italy's "Cannibal" Pulp Fiction of the 1990sPart III: Filicide The Bad/Mad Mother of Cogne and Violence Against Children6. The Yellow and the Black: Cogne or, Crime of the Century7. Spectacular Grief and Public Mourning8. Unspeakable Crimes: Children as Witnesses, Victims, and PerpetratorsEpilogue: Kiss Me DeadlyNotesBibliographyIndex
£20.50
University of Notre Dame Press Religious Responses to Violence
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the impact of religion and politics on human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America.Trade Review"This book makes an important and original contribution to the fields of religion and politics and to the study of human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America. Religion is treated seriously, by authors who really understand it. The book also brings fresh research and a long view to bear on its examination of civil violence and rights. Scholars and students in a range of disciplines—history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religion—will find this book of great value." —Frances Hagopian, Harvard University"As the Middle East is today, so was Latin America for decades during the last century, with major stories on every front page and evening news program and with the role of the Church often front and center. Violence pervades much of the region today, especially in Central America, but one hears less of the role of religion now. This volume is a most welcome addition to the study of religion and human rights in the Americas and brings together excellent studies of less covered areas of the recent past and exciting treatments of the new roles of religion in today’s conflict areas." —Tom Quigley, former policy advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops"A generation or two ago, the image of church people faced with state-sponsored violence in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Central America prompted numerous studies and inspired many to organize and march. This collection sheds new light on those familiar stories and examines the perplexing violence of the present and responses to it, such as pentecostal prison ministry in Brazil and church groups assisting migrants fleeing through Mexico. Each study, whether local, national, or regional, is a treasure; they are enhanced by thematic surveys that bring fresh insight for a new generation of scholars and readers." —Phillip Berryman, author of Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America"Religious Responses to Violence contains 15 chapters by experts on Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. They cover the history of Latin America from the mid-twentieth century to the present—roughly from Vatican II to Pope Francis and from the early development of Evangelical churches to their current prominence in communities and politics. . . . Anyone involved in that great movement will benefit from reading Religious Responses to Violence." —Friends Journal“The book begins with the paradox that ‘modern Latin America is both notably violent and notably religious’ and ends with the empirically based conclusion about ‘the unique qualities of religious as a social force against violence.’ . . . Religious actors play an ongoing and irreplaceable role in acting as an antidote to the universal hold of justice as a revenge seeking lex talionis that so far has been noticed by a few anthropological studies but not the public eye. Religious Responses to Violence is not an easy to read primer. But it’s a necessary one.” —Catholic Book Reviews“The 15 contributions reveal the multiple and at times conflicting responses from churches that range from active non-violence to challenging state violence, accompanying popular mobilizations, supporting development projects, and taking up arms in support of revolutionary movements. The volume makes a key contribution to understanding religion in contemporary Latin America.” —Choice“This book has much to offer. Featuring scholars from different disciplines, it presents a wonderful account of historical events and analysis of what Latin Americans had experienced during the political and social turbulence of the region from the 1970s to the present times . . . the topics complement each other and are relevant to anyone working on this issue today.” —Theological Studies
£35.10
University of Notre Dame Press Religious Responses to Violence
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the impact of religion and politics on human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America.Trade Review"This book makes an important and original contribution to the fields of religion and politics and to the study of human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America. Religion is treated seriously, by authors who really understand it. The book also brings fresh research and a long view to bear on its examination of civil violence and rights. Scholars and students in a range of disciplines—history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religion—will find this book of great value." —Frances Hagopian, Harvard University"As the Middle East is today, so was Latin America for decades during the last century, with major stories on every front page and evening news program and with the role of the Church often front and center. Violence pervades much of the region today, especially in Central America, but one hears less of the role of religion now. This volume is a most welcome addition to the study of religion and human rights in the Americas and brings together excellent studies of less covered areas of the recent past and exciting treatments of the new roles of religion in today’s conflict areas." —Tom Quigley, former policy advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops"A generation or two ago, the image of church people faced with state-sponsored violence in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Central America prompted numerous studies and inspired many to organize and march. This collection sheds new light on those familiar stories and examines the perplexing violence of the present and responses to it, such as pentecostal prison ministry in Brazil and church groups assisting migrants fleeing through Mexico. Each study, whether local, national, or regional, is a treasure; they are enhanced by thematic surveys that bring fresh insight for a new generation of scholars and readers." —Phillip Berryman, author of Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America"Religious Responses to Violence contains 15 chapters by experts on Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. They cover the history of Latin America from the mid-twentieth century to the present—roughly from Vatican II to Pope Francis and from the early development of Evangelical churches to their current prominence in communities and politics. . . . Anyone involved in that great movement will benefit from reading Religious Responses to Violence." —Friends Journal“The book begins with the paradox that ‘modern Latin America is both notably violent and notably religious’ and ends with the empirically based conclusion about ‘the unique qualities of religious as a social force against violence.’ . . . Religious actors play an ongoing and irreplaceable role in acting as an antidote to the universal hold of justice as a revenge seeking lex talionis that so far has been noticed by a few anthropological studies but not the public eye. Religious Responses to Violence is not an easy to read primer. But it’s a necessary one.” —Catholic Book Reviews“The 15 contributions reveal the multiple and at times conflicting responses from churches that range from active non-violence to challenging state violence, accompanying popular mobilizations, supporting development projects, and taking up arms in support of revolutionary movements. The volume makes a key contribution to understanding religion in contemporary Latin America.” —Choice“This book has much to offer. Featuring scholars from different disciplines, it presents a wonderful account of historical events and analysis of what Latin Americans had experienced during the political and social turbulence of the region from the 1970s to the present times . . . the topics complement each other and are relevant to anyone working on this issue today.” —Theological Studies
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press Dante and Violence
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dante and Violence directly engages with important recent studies and the related domains of medieval legal, political, and religious thought. Close reading of passages from Dante and cross-references to episodes or figures from his work help to demonstrate how and why the explanations of contemporary medieval thought inform the analysis of the poema sacro.” —Catherine Keen, author of Dante and the City"Schildgen has written a groundbreaking study of Dante and violence. Dante and Violence will be of value to all those interested in a great thinker’s views on a paramount and enduring topic—one whose relevance, moreover, never diminishes." —Teodolinda Barolini, editor of Dante's Lyric Poetry"Schildgen takes on a seemingly obvious aspect of Dante’s Commedia, acknowledging the many ways his subject requires grisly treatments. But rather than simply offering another account of violent punishment in the poem, she examines how 'the Commedia represents interpersonal, collective, and cosmic violence or coercion in three spheres of the poet’s historic world.'" —Choice"Nothing but the highest commendation for the author’s in-depth analysis of the chosen case studies, her erudite use of sources, and her conclusions, particularly with regard to justified and unjustified war." —SymposiumTable of ContentsIntroduction: Violence in the Commedia 1. Freedom, Natural Law, and Love 2. Violence in the Domestic Sphere in the Commedia 3. Killing Fields and the Cross in the Heavens 4. Redemptive Violence: The Cross, Sacrifice, and the “Giusta Vendetta” Conclusion: Violence, Poetry, and History
£45.00
University of Notre Dame Press The Fate of Peruvian Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a riveting analysis of the rise and fall of Peru’s left during the 1970s–1990s. Drawing on scores of personal interviews, Feinstein puts us in the room where the leaders of Peru’s leftist political parties struggled to cope with the challenge posed by the savage Shining Path insurgency.” —Cynthia McClintock, author of Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps and Images Spanish Language Terms Acronyms List and Glossary Regional Maps Introduction 1. Revolution from Above or Below? (1960s-1970s) 2. Entering the Democratic Game – The Birth of Izquierda Unida (1980-1983) 3. To Support or Oppose the Populist Center? (1983-1986) 4. Days of Barbarity – The 1986 Lima Prison Massacres 5. The Center Cannot Hold –The First and Last Congress of Izquierda Unida at Huampaní (1989) 6. Fighting Against the Tide: María Elena’s Last Stand (1992) 7. The Afterlife of War: Post-Conflict Memory in Peru (2000-2019) Conclusion Bibliography
£48.60
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Book SynopsisThis collection of case studies by scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds turns a critical and reflective eye toward qualitative fieldwork on perpetrators of genocide. This volume provides an essential starting point for future research while advancing genocide studies, transitional justice, and related fields.Trade ReviewFor those interested in understanding genocidal violence from the perpetrator's perspective, this volume brings you insights from scholars with firsthand experience interviewing killers. And for researchers sensitive to the ethical and methodological challenges of working with perpetrators, you will value its practical guidance."" - Omar McDoom, London School of Economics""Offers a series of timely and incisive reflections on the ethical and methodological challenges that confront researchers in the fields of genocide and perpetrator studies. Not only does it shed critical light on the vexed issue of categorization, but it also offers valuable perspectives on how to approach our own preconceptions and positionality within the field."" - Susanne C. Knittel, editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies
£999.99
University of Wisconsin Press Violence in Rural South Africa 18801963
Book SynopsisFocusing on the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and political violence against state policies and officials.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: A History of Violence, a Question of Tradition 1 Neighbors and Rivals: Faction Fighting and Traditional Violence in the Rural Transkei 2 “The Girl Is Not Consulted”: Abduction Marriage and Gendered Traditions of Violence 3 Deaths in the Family: Supernatural Harms and Violent Remedies 4 Sons and “Hooligans,” “World-Destroyers” and Rebels: Traditional Violence Takes a Nationalist Turn Conclusion: Rural Violence Reconsidered Notes Bibliography Index
£60.30
Yale University Press War
Book SynopsisA renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that a deeper, more accurate understanding of war may enable us to reduce its frequency, mitigate its horrors, and lessen the burden of its consequences. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. He probes much-debated theories concerning the causes of war and considers positive changes that may result from war. How might these results be achieved without violence? In a profoundly wise conclusion, the author envisions just war theory in new moral terms, taking into
£14.64
WW Norton & Co Gunfight
Book SynopsisA provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Trade Review"Adam Winkler tells the remarkable story of the rag-tag group of libertarian lawyers who challenged nearly a century of lower-court precedent to bring a clear-cut Second Amendment case to the Supreme Court... An engaging and provocative legal drama about the six-year courtroom journey of District of Columbia v Heller and a fascinating survey of the misunderstood history of guns and gun control in America." "A succinct and fascinating introduction to the legal and historical issues at the heart of the gun debate." -- Eric Arnesen, professor of history at George Washington University and fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars "A potboiler of constitutional interpretation and is both a vital history and an intellectually satisfying, emotionally rewarding tale of a great case." -- Jim Newton
£14.24
