Violence and abuse in society Books

Book SynopsisThis volume is an attempt to serve as a venue for giving a voice to queer people from all faiths and no faiths to describe how they negotiate or have negotiated spiritual violence in their lives, as well as the voices of heterosexual allies who strive for the inclusion of queer people as a counter narrative to spiritual violence of full inclusion and embracement and demonstrate that some communities of faith do not operate from paradigms of violence, but instead operate with love, affirmation, and inclusion. These counter narratives are important.This volume is a collection of narratives that describe a variety of experiences – stories of pain and rejection, joy, and overcoming and transformation. The voices of the authors in this collection are a mixture of personal narratives, theoretical or academic thought, and because art and spirituality often go hand-in-hand, some of the authors offer the reader more creative writing that reflects their ideas.

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Book SynopsisAt 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century.How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours? Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's contemporaries-men and women alive today who still carry distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of Alcolu and the entire state-Eli Faber pieces together the chain of events that led to this tragic injustice.The first book to fully explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived-the era of lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black Americans. Faber explains how a systemically racist system, paired with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty.As society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice, the story of George Stinney remains one that can teach us lessons about our collective past and present. By ably placing the Stinney case into a larger context, Faber reveals how this case is not just a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but rather one that continues to resonate in our own time.A foreword is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

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Book SynopsisOn September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops, converged on the area 'with blood in their eyes.' What happened next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States, leaving a legacy of trauma and silence that has persisted for more than a century. In the wake of the massacre, the NAACP and Little Rock lawyer Scipio Jones spearheaded legal action that revolutionized due process in America. The first edition of Grif Stockley's Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. With contributions from fellow historians Brian K. Mitchell and Guy Lancaster, this revised edition draws from recently uncovered source material and explores in greater detail the actions of the mob, the lives of those who survived the massacre, and the regime of fear and terror that prevailed under Jim Crow.Trade ReviewThis expanded edition of Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919 is a valuable resource for coming to grips with one of the most significant episodes of racial violence in Arkansas and US history. Building on Grif Stockley’s pathbreaking first edition, Stockley, Mitchell, and Lancaster offer further analysis that incorporates newly uncovered sources, subsequent historical scholarship, and other recent developments in the efforts to excavate what occurred in Phillips County, Arkansas, in 1919. Their thoughtful, essential scholarship draws from a deep and probing knowledge of Arkansas and southern history. Their book is one of the best local studies of American racial violence that I have read." —Michael J. Pfeifer, author of Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874--1947

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Book SynopsisLynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this new treatise, historian Guy Lancaster exposes the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching.Lancaster, who has written extensively on racial violence, details several lynchings of Blacks by white posses in post-Reconstruction Arkansas. Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, he argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence. This new framework reveals lynching to be even more of an atrocity than previously understood: that mobs did not disregard the humanity of their victims but rather reveled in it; that they were not simply enacting personal vengeance but manifesting an elite project of subjugation. Lancaster thus clarifies and connects the motives and goals of seemingly isolated lynch mobs, embedding the practice in the ongoing enforcement of white supremacy. By interrogating the substance of lynching, American Atrocity shines new light on both past anti-Black violence and the historical underpinnings of our present moment.

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Book SynopsisIn Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of extralegal punishment into a form of racialized recreation in which crowd involvement was integral to the mode and methods of the violence. Scott powerfully documents how lynchings came to function not only as tools for debasing the status of Black people but also as highly anticipated occasions for entertainment, making memories with friends and neighbors, and reifying whiteness. In focusing on the sense of pleasure and normality that prevailed among the white spectatorship, this comprehensive study of Texas lynchings sheds new light on the practice understood as one of the chief strategies of racial domination in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards — Australian History Prize 2021 How vast then is forgetting – of language, of places, of the dead? Are these even things that can be measured? They are not – but they can be described. Amnesia Road is a powerful literary consideration of historic violence in two different parts of the world, the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and the backroads of rural Andalusia. It is also an unashamed celebration of the landscapes where this violence – frontier conflict and civil war – has been carried out. Australian Hispanist Luke Stegemann uncovers neglected history and its victims and asks where such forgotten people can find a place in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt and identity. Stegemann writes powerfully about these landscapes, finding threads of forgotten history, particularly the brutal murderous Indigenous history that is so often deliberately ignored and the mass killings of civilians in the Spanish Civil War, in Andalusia and Cádiz in particular. Characterised by beautiful, lush writing that remains unflinching, this book prompts us to consider traumatic history and the places where it unfolded in new ways.Trade Review‘This book will come to be regarded as a classic of Australian literature.’ — Nicolas Rothwell

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Book SynopsisIn Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence through education and training, connect people and communities, and support the complex needs of survivors through a multitude of services. We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women's shelters. Based on dozens of in-depth interviews, it traces the evolution of a progressive social movement in a traditionally conservative province. These are the stories of women whose voices may otherwise never have been heard: entry-level workers at fledgling shelters battling the assumption that their facilities would create crime, small-town shelter directors forced to self-censor or lose community—and financial—support, Indigenous women fighting to serve their sisters in Indigenous spaces. Beginning with the women who founded the first shelters, and continuing through the establishment of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters to the present day, We Need to Do This is a story of hope and survival for the women's shelter movement and for the mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and daughters it continues to serve.

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Book SynopsisFollowing on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy', Lawrence Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the trauma bond, and created new lives for themselves. Including, among others: Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust survivors) who broke free from the inter-generational trauma in his family system by exposing extensive corruption in his community--and in American society--and by working for social justice in the Middle East; Eric Lomax, a former British soldier in the far east, who broke free from his haunting traumatic memories by meeting and reconciling with the Japanese man who had tortured him fifty years before, with the help of his brave and insightful wife; Gerry Adams who, together with his IRA and Sinn Fein comrades, broke free of the trauma of Northern Ireland's civil war, finally redeeming himself by questioning some of his own assumptions and then dedicating himself to achieving peace in the Good Friday (Peace) Agreement of 1998. This is a definitive book about personal struggle against traumatic memory, but also about how trauma bonding operates in society. It is the author's belief that unresolved feelings of psychological trauma are the wheelhouse of systemic evil, whether of the dictator, the demagogue or the criminal psychopath. It is by manipulating shared traumatic memories that tyrants control people, and get them to do terrible things they would never otherwise do.

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Book SynopsisDo witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised? If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female? There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse. With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Seduced by Satan; Cynthia Jones Chapter 2. Murders most Foul; Kristin Bone Chapter 3. Male gaze and Female Monstrosity; Almudena Nido Chapter 4. The Monstrous Girl; Miranda Corcoran Chapter 5. Punk mood, Junk Food; Gina Gwenffrewi Chapter 6. Digital Coercive Control Morag; Claire Kennedy Chapter 7. Women, Torture and the Abuse of Power; Theresa Porter and Helen Gavin Chapter 8. Good blokes and Bad Mothers; Laura Button

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Book SynopsisThe study of conflict and its resolution now attracts an ever-increasing number of economists. For this three-volume collection, the editors have selected the most influential previously published papers by leading scholars from the vast and rapidly expanding literature in this field. Volume I addresses the theoretical treatments of conflict, including game theory and rent-seeking, Volume II presents a variety of different applications and Volume III deals with case studies.The editors have written an authoritative new introduction which provides a comprehensive overview of the collection.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Theory Acknowledgements Introduction Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley PART I FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICT 1. Thomas C. Schelling (1958), ‘The Strategy of Conflict: Prospectus for a Reorientation of Game Theory’ 2. Manus Midlarsky (1970), ‘Mathematical Models of Instability and a Theory of Diffusion’ 3. Thomas C. Schelling (1973), ‘Hockey Helmets, Concealed Weapons, and Daylight Saving: A Study of Binary Choices with Externalities’ 4. Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator (1985), ‘Conflict, War, and Redistribution’ 5. Jack Hirshleifer (1994), ‘The Dark Side of the Force: Western Economic Association International 1993 Presidential Address’ 6. Ian Bellany (1999), ‘Modelling War’ PART II DEFENSE, OFFENSE AND DETERRENCE 7. Bruce M. Russett (1963), ‘The Calculus of Deterrence’ 8. Michelle R. Garfinkel (1990), ‘Arming as a Strategic Investment in a Cooperative Equilibrium’ 9. Charles H. Anderton (1992), ‘Toward a Mathematical Theory of Offensive/Defensive Balance’ PART III RENT-SEEKING, CONFLICT AND CONTESTS 10. Gordon Tullock (1967), ‘The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft’ 11. Anne O. Krueger (1974), ‘The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society’ 12. Avinash Dixit (1987), ‘Strategic Behavior in Contests’ 13. Jack Hirshleifer (1988), ‘The Analytics of Continuing Conflict’ 14. Jack Hirshleifer (1991), ‘The Paradox of Power’ 15. Stergios Skaperdas (1996), ‘Contest Success Functions’ PART IV APPROPRIATION AND BANDITRY 16. Stergios Skaperdas (1992), ‘Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights’ 17. Hugh M. Neary (1997), ‘Equilibrium Structure in an Economic Model of Conflict’ 18. Mancur Olson (1993), ‘Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development’ 19. Herschel I. Grossman (1994), ‘Production, Appropriation, and Land Reform’ 20. Martin C. McGuire and Mancur Olson, Jr. (1996), ‘The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force’ 21. Charles H. Anderton, Roxane A. Anderton and John R. Carter (1999), ‘Economic Activity in the Shadow of Conflict’ PART V TERRORISM 22. Richard M. Kirk (1983), ‘Political Terrorism and the Size of Government: A Positive Institutional Analysis of Violent Political Activity’ 23. Todd Sandler, John T. Tschirhart and Jon Cauley (1983), ‘A Theoretical Analysis of Transnational Terrorism’ 24. Harvey E. Lapan and Todd Sandler (1988), ‘To Bargain or Not to Bargain: That is the Question’ 25. Todd Sandler and Harvey E. Lapan (1988), ‘The Calculus of Dissent: An Analysis of Terrorists’ Choice of Targets’ PART VI CIVIL WARS, INSURRECTIONS AND REBELLIONS 26. Timur Kuran (1989), ‘Sparks and Prairie Fires: A Theory of Unanticipated Political Revolution’ 27. Herschel I. Grossman (1991), ‘A General Equilibrium Model of Insurrections’ 28. Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (1998), ‘On Economic Causes of Civil War’ 29. Paul Collier (2000), ‘Rebellion as a Quasi-Criminal Activity’ 30. Jean-Paul Azam (2002), ‘Looting and Conflict between Ethnoregional Groups: Lessons for State Formation in Africa’ 31. James C. Murdoch and Todd Sandler (2002), ‘Economic Growth, Civil Wars, and Spatial Spillovers’ 32. Nicholas Sambanis (2002), ‘A Review of Recent Advances and Future Directions in the Quantitative Literature on Civil War’ PART VII CONFLICT RESOLUTION 33. Donald Wittman (1979), ‘How a War Ends: A Rational Model Approach’ 34. Robert E. Kuenne (1989), ‘Conflict Management in Mature Rivalry’ 35. Daniel G. Arce M. (1997), ‘Correlated Strategies as Institutions’ 36. Daniel G. Arce M. (2001), ‘Leadership and the Aggregation of International Collective Action’ Name Index Volume II: Applications Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I APPLICATIONS OF CONCEPTS 1. Philip Mirowski (1991), ‘When Games Grow Deadly Serious: The Military Influence on the Evolution of Game Theory’ 2. Robert J. Leonard (1991), ‘War as a “Simple Economic Problem”: The Rise of an Economics of Defense’ 3. Ole R. Holsti (1963), ‘The Value of International Tension Measurement’ 4. Kenneth E. Boulding (1978), ‘Future Directions in Conflict and Peace Studies’ 5. Michael D. Intriligator (1982), ‘Research on Conflict Theory: Analytic Approaches and Areas of Application’ 6. Ron P. Smith (1998), ‘Quantitative Methods in Peace Research’ PART II ECONOMIC IMPACTS 7. Seymour Melman (1972), ‘Ten Propositions on the War Economy’ 8. B.F. Kiker and James L. Cochrane (1973), ‘War and Human Capital in Western Economic Analysis’ 9. Saadet Deger and Ron Smith (1983), ‘Military Expenditure and Growth in Less Developed Countries’ 10. John A.C. Conybeare (1990), ‘A Random Walk Down the Road to War: War Cycles, Prices and Causality’ 11. Kun Y. Park (1993), ‘“Pouring New Wine into Fresh Wineskins”: Defense Spending and Economic Growth in LDCs with Application to South Korea’ 12. David Lai (2001), ‘The Great Power Dilemma: The Trade-Off between Defense and Growth in Great Britain, 1830–1980’ PART III ARMS RACES 13. Hans Rattinger (1975), ‘Armaments, Detente, and Bureaucracy: The Case of the Arms Race in Europe’ 14. Harvey Starr and Benjamin A. Most (1978), ‘A Return Journey: Richardson, “Frontiers” and Wars in the 1946–1965 Era’ 15. Michael D. Wallace (1979), ‘Arms Races and Escalation: Some New Evidence’ 16. Michael D. Intriligator and Dagobert L. Brito (1984), ‘Can Arms Races Lead to the Outbreak of War?’ 17. Robert S. McNamara (1986), ‘Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War: Is Star Wars the Answer?’ 18. Charles H. Anderton (1990), ‘The Inherent Propensity Toward Peace or War Embodied in Weaponry’ 19. Michael D. Wallace and Charles A. Meconis (1995), ‘Submarine Proliferation and Regional Conflict’ 20. Susan G. Sample (1997), ‘Arms Races and Dispute Escalation: Resolving the Debate’ PART IV ARMS TRADE 21. David Kinsella (1994), ‘The Impact of Superpower Arms Transfers on Conflict in the Middle East’ 22. Small Arms Survey (2001), ‘Crime, Conflict, Corruption: Global Illicit Small Arms Transfers’ PART V ARMS CONTROL 23. Peter Wallensteen and Margareta Sollenberg (1997), ‘Armed Conflicts, Conflict Termination and Peace Agreements, 1989–96’ 24. Cassady B. Craft (2000), ‘An Analysis of the Washington Naval Agreements and the Economic Provisions of Arms Control Theory’ PART VI SANCTIONS 25. Richard C. Porter (1979), ‘International Trade and Investment Sanctions: Potential Impact on the South African Economy’ 26. William H. Kaempfer and Anton D. Lowenberg (1986), ‘A Model of the Political Economy of International Investment Sanctions: The Case of South Africa’ 27. William H. Kaempfer and Anton D. Lowenberg (1988), ‘The Theory of International Economic Sanctions: A Public Choice Approach’ 28. Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers (1992), ‘Sanctions’ 29. A. Cooper Drury (1998), ‘Revisiting Economic Sanctions Reconsidered’ PART VII PEACE AND DEMOCRACY 30. Joel T. Campbell and Leila S. Cain (1965), ‘Public Opinion and the Outbreak of War’, and Comments by Anatol Rapoport and Philip E. Converse 31. Patrick James, Eric Solberg and Murray Wolfson (1999), ‘An Identified Systemic Model of the Democracy-Peace Nexus’ 32. John R. Oneal and Bruce Russett (2000), ‘Comment: Why “An Identified Systemic Model of the Democracy-Peace Nexus” Does Not Persuade’ 33. Patrick James, Eric Solberg and Murray Wolfson (2000), ‘Democracy and Peace: Reply to Oneal and Russett’ PART VIII PEACEKEEPING 34. Lawrence R. Klein and Kanta Marwah (1996), ‘Economic Aspects of Peacekeeping Operations’ 35. Paul F. Diehl, Daniel Druckman and James Wall (1998), ‘International Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution: A Taxonomic Analysis with Implications’ 36. Jyoti Khanna, Todd Sandler and Hirofumi Shimizu (1998), ‘Sharing the Financial Burden for U.N. and NATO Peacekeeping, 1976–1996’ 37. Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis (2000), ‘International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis’ PART IX TERRORISM 38. Walter Enders, Todd Sandler and Jon Cauley (1990), ‘Assessing the Impact of Terrorist-Thwarting Policies: An Intervention Time Series Approach’ 39. Walter Enders and Todd Sandler (1996), ‘Terrorism and Foreign Direct Investment in Spain and Greece’ 40. Daniel M. Schwartz (1998), ‘Environmental Terrorism: Analyzing the Concept’ Name Index Volume III: Case Studies Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I WORLD WARS 1. R.A. Radford (1945), ‘The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp’ 2. Louis Baudin (1945), ‘An Outline of Economic Conditions in France under the German Occupation’ 3. Richard B. Heflebower (1946), ‘The Effects of the War on the Structure of Commodity and Labor Markets’ 4. Paul T. Homan (1946), ‘Economics in the War Period’ 5. A.S. Milward (1964), ‘The End of the Blitzkrieg’ 6. R.J. Overy (1975), ‘The German Pre-War Aircraft Production Plans: November 1936 – April 1939’ 7. Mark Thomas (1983), ‘Rearmament and Economic Recovery in the late 1930s’ 8. Stephen Harvey (1985), ‘The Italian War Effort and the Strategic Bombing of Italy’ 9. Mark Harrison (1988), ‘Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938–1945’ 10. T. Balderston (1989), ‘War Finance and Inflation in Britain and Germany 1914–1918’ 11. Timo Toivonen (1998), ‘War and Equality: The Social Background of the Victims of the Finnish Winter War’ PART II VIETNAM 12. Charles Wolf, Jr. (1972), ‘The Logic of Failure: A Vietnam “Lesson”’ 13. B.F. Kiker and Jon Birkeli (1972), ‘Human Capital Losses Resulting from U.S. Casualties of the War in Vietnam’ 14. Mark C. Berger and Barry T. Hirsch (1983), ‘The Civilian Earnings Experience of Vietnam-Era Veterans’ PART III NORTHERN IRELAND 15. Bob Rowthorn (1981), ‘Northern Ireland: An Economy in Crisis’ 16. Jonathan Michie and Maura Sheehan (1998), ‘The Political Economy of a Divided Ireland’ PART IV GULF WAR 17. Murray Wolfson and Robert Smith (1993), ‘How Not to Pay for the War’ PART V MIDDLE EAST 18. Barry M. Blechman (1972), ‘The Impact of Israel’s Reprisals on Behavior of the Bordering Arab Nations Directed at Israel’ 19. Pierre Allan and Albert A. Stahel (1983), ‘Tribal Guerrilla Warfare Against a Colonial Power: Analyzing the War in Afghanistan’ 20. Ben D. Mor (1991), ‘Nasser’s Decision-making in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-choice Explanation’ 21. Jordin S. Cohen, Alex Mintz, Randolph Stevenson and Michael D. Ward (1996), ‘Defense Expenditures and Economic Growth in Israel: The Indirect Link’ 22. Michael Beenstock (1998), ‘Country Survey XI: Defence and the Israeli Economy’ 23. A. Arnon and J. Weinblatt (2001), ‘Sovereignty and Economic Development: The Case of Israel and Palestine’ PART VI CIVIL WARS 24. Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison (1991), ‘Political Influence on Civil War Mortality Rates: The Electoral College as a Battlefield’ 25. Roy Licklider (1995), ‘The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945–1993’ PART VII WAR FIGHTING 26. Frank L. Klingberg (1966), ‘Predicting the Termination of War: Battle Casualties and Population Losses’ 27. Frederic S. Pearson (1974), ‘Geographic Proximity and Foreign Military Intervention’ 28. David Garnham (1986), ‘War-Proneness, War-Weariness, and Regime Type: 1816–1980’ 29. Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam III (1998), ‘Democracy and Battlefield Military Effectiveness’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisA book about blood homicide in Bedouin and rural Arab society in Israel.Trade Review"The case studies are interesting and illuminating. They add an important empirical dimension to the general theoretical discussion of conflict resolution." -- Middle Eastern Studies

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Book SynopsisKidnapping constitutes a central component in the attack repertoire of terror organisations. It is a means of promoting the goals of their organisations and their patrons. Since the 1960s, Israel has been extorted by terrorist organisations holding Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage, only to be returned in a deal securing the release of imprisoned members of these terror organisations. Since the 1980s, in the wake of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the ascent of a terror-supporting regime in that country, Islamic terror entities such as the Lebanese Hezbollah organisation and the Palestinian Hamas movement have become preeminent in the Middle East in all matters connected to terror in general, and kidnappings in particular. This study analyses the challenges that radical Islamic groups pose and the response of Israel relating to abductions in Lebanon via the Hezbollah organisation (1983-2016), and abductions in Israel via the Hamas movement (1989-2016). The main debates about prisoner exchange within Israeli society revolve around the following questions: (1) Does conceding to terrorists lead to further kidnappings? and (2) Do the terrorists that are released return to terrorist activity? The challenge issued by terror organisations to Israel whose citizens have been kidnapped, and the way Israel has risen to that challenge, is the prime focus of this study. It follows two earlier books by the author published by Sussex Academic on the regional and global aspects of terror abductions.Trade ReviewReviews of the authors earlier work (2007) include: The world of political terror abductions keeps growing, and this book is an excellent introduction. Highly recommended. -- ChoiceThis book is complete with specific details on abductions that strive to give the process a human face -- Digest of Middle East Studies

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Book SynopsisDrawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centred history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics within the social and cultural everyday of life in occupied East Timor. The violence experienced by East Timorese women ranged from torture, rape, and interrogation, to various forms of surveillance and social control, and the structural imposition of particular feminine ideals upon their lives and bodies. Through women, East Timorese familial culture was also targeted via programmes to develop and modernise the territory by transforming the feminine and the domestic sphere. Women experienced the occupation differently to men, not just because they were vulnerable to sexual violence, but also because they endured proxy violence as the militarys means of targeting male relatives and the resistance at large. In Womens Words tells a story of survival and perseverance by highlighting the strength, initiative, and negotiating skills of East Timorese women. Many women lived in circumstances of constant negotiation and attempts to maintain order and normality, as well as to provide for themselves and their families, in a society where everyday life was characterised by violence and uncertainty. This study demonstrates the capacity of people to survive, to endure, and to resist, even amid the most difficult of circumstances. It provides insights into the social and cultural elements of territorial control, as well as the locally-grounded strategies that are often used for negotiating and resisting an occupying power.

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Book SynopsisHow have sociopolitical fears been enacted, represented and performed in societies marked by repression, conflict and abuse of power? And how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural productions? Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica ofrece una contribución crítica al estudio de las representaciones de los miedos sociopolíticos en la literatura y el cine contemporáneos. Este volumen estudia las consecuencias inmediatas y de larga duración de la violencia y el terror en las sociedades latinoamericanas desde varias perspectivas teóricas. Los capítulos del libro abordan dos preguntas centrales: ¿cómo se han asumido, asimilado y representado los diversos temores sociopolíticos que caracterizan a unas sociedades marcadas por el conflicto, la represión y el abuso de poder? y ¿cómo este afecto ha marcado los discursos estéticos e ideológicos de las producciones culturales? Mediante el estudio de las obras de escritores y productores culturales contemporáneos incluso Mónica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Alonso Cueto y Manlio Argueta, los colaboradores de este libro examinan el clima de terror y ansiedad provocados por las guerras civiles en Guatemala, El Salvador y Perú; la guerra de las drogas en México; la invasión estadounidense a Panamá en 1989; así como las dinámicas de desigualdad de clase y género en Ecuador y México. Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica offers a critical contribution to studies of the representation of socio-politically inflicted fears in contemporary literature and film. This volume looks at the immediate and long-lasting consequences of violence and terror in Latin American societies from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Chapters of the book engage with two central questions: How have sociopolitical fears been enacted, represented and performed in societies marked by repression, conflict and abuse of power? And how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural productions? Looking at contemporary writers and cultural producers including Mónica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Alonso Cueto and Manlio Argueta, the contributors of this volume examine the climate of terror and anxiety resulting from the civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru; the war on drugs in Mexico; the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; and dynamics of class and gender power imbalances in Ecuador and Mexico.Table of ContentsLista de illustraciones Lista de autores Introducción Narrativas del miedo: consideraciones históricas y definiciones conceptuales Marco Ramírez Rojas Ecuador 1. En la boca del miedo: violencias afectivas y éticas perversas en Mandíbula, de Mónica Ojeda Marta Pascua Canelo El Salvador 2. Desde el miedo hasta la liberación en Un día en la vida del salvadoreño Manlio Argueta Bradley Hilgert y Zachary Dehm Guatemala 3. Espectros subversivos y miedos neoliberales en La llorona de Jayro Bustamante Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo 4. El miedo como condición crónica y la desactivación política del sujeto en El material humano de Rodrigo Rey Rosa Magdalena Perkowska México 5. Cartografías del miedo en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea Ester Bautista y Daniela Pérez 6. Los trabajos del miedo: el terror, el horror y la ruina en la narrativa sobre la guerrilla mexicana de los años 70 José Lara 7. El miedo en un México neoliberal: El papel de las narco-narrativas seriales y las impredecibles formas de coexistencia Blanca Judith Martínez 8. Figuras del miedo en El buscador de cabezas de Antonio Ortuño Margarita Remón-Raillard Panamá 9. Heterofonía del miedo y trauma nacional: La primera novela de la invasión a Panamá en 1989 David Rozotto Perú 10. Memoria, espacio y niñez: Las formas de lo gótico en Las malas intenciones Rosana Díaz-Zambrana 11. Una historia contada dos veces: Los residuos del miedo en La Hora Azul y La Pasajera de Alonso Cueto Marco Ramírez Rojas Índice onomástico

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Book SynopsisThis book explores key areas of working with adult survivors of childhood abuse that in the author?s experience as a practitioner, trainer, and supervisor are frequent concerns of those working in this field. Areas covered include an exploration of theoretical approaches and their relevance, definitions of abuse, ethical issues and questions, the impact of abuse on the child and on the adult survivor, the effects of working in this field on the worker and how to respond to these. Some of the specific areas covered relate to self harm, the recovery of memories, dissociative responses, the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship and many more. Throughout the book it is recognised that the questions covered are frequently contentious and arouse strong feelings. Every attempt is made to provide a measured, careful and thorough response based on many years? experience in this area. The book is aimed at all those in the care professions and voluntary sector who work with abuse survivors. It is written accessibly and with the recognition that this important and demanding area is one that increasing numbers of counsellors and therapists, social workers, nurses and many others are dealing with on a daily basis, and that working well and safely is an enormous concern to them. This book aims to be of real assistance to those people.Table of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Initial issues and questions in counselling abuse survivors. Chapter 2 Concerns of survivors. Chapter 3 Effects of abuse on the adult survivor. Chapter 4 Therapeutic concerns. Chapter 5 The effects of abuse on the practitioner. Chapter 6 Service provision and supervision. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisHuman Nature is the fuel of violent conflict. The War Hotel looks at how we get aroused and how we get silenced into violent conflict. We are pulled apart in the name of justice and loyalty. Past trauma is triggered into a replay. Out of love and longing to step beyond the ordinary world, we sacrifice ourselves and others. Dehumanizing the enemy, disinformation, torture, stirring fear in order to crack down - these terror tactics, too, are based in psychology. The manipulation of psychological dynamics to create violent conflict is distressing. But, if our emotions and behaviour are the fuel, then our awareness can impact world events. There is something truly hopeful here. Awareness makes a difference. Examples draw particularly from the author's work in the Balkans. Other examples include Nazi Germany, Rwanda, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Communism and its fall in Europe, South Africa, the treatment of Native Americans and African Americans in the USA, Vietnam and the 'war on terror'.Table of ContentsPreface. About the author. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Welcome to 'The War Hotel'. Part 1: Justice and the Wheels of History. Chapter 1.In the name of justice. Chapter 2. Suffering, privilege and being right. Chapter 3. Tribunals, Truth Commissions, lustration and community forums. Chapter 4. Accountability and return to the Ganges. Part 2: Terror and the Spirit that Survives. Chapter 5. Terror. Chapter 6. Terror tactic: chaos and crackdown. Chapter 7. Terror tactic: the Bogeyman and demonizing. Chapter 8. Terror tactic: dehumanization. Chapter 9. Terror tactic: desensitization and normalization. Chapter 10. Terror tactic: targeting leaders. Chapter 11. Terror tactic: torture, breaking body and spirit. Chapter 12. Terror tactic: targeting the soul of community. Chapter 13. Terror tactic: disinformation. Chapter 14. Beyond Terror. Part 3: Trauma - The Nightmare of History. Chapter 15. Our story - the dynamics of trauma. Chapter 16. Trauma and refuge. Chapter 17. Replays of violent conflict and breaking the cycle. Part 4: The Warrior's Call - Altered States of War. Chapter 18. Beyond the ordinary. Chapter 19. With the field. Chapter 20. Over the edge. Chapter 21. Cutting through. Part 5: Wareness at the Hot Spot. Chapter 22. Wake up. Chapter 23. Chaos, warfare and conflict resolution. Chapter 24. Getter back in bed together - an awareness revolution. Chapter 25. Hot spots and the difference that makes a difference. Appendix. Endnotes. Index.

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Book SynopsisInternationally, violence occurs in schools on a regular basis; and in some contexts is particularly serious and widespread. One such context is South Africa, where, on an almost daily basis, newspapers carry reports of one or other aspect of school violence.While a number of academic studies have delineated the extent and nature of such violence, and made recommendations on possible solutions to the problem, there has ? until now ? been no single book bringing together theory and research on the causes of violence, and on its reduction and prevention. Finding suitable solutions requires a clear understanding of how and where violence is generated. Uniquely, Violence in schools: South Africa in an international context covers both the social bases of school violence and the role many schools themselves play in generating violent behaviour. It goes on to argue that school-generated violence is potentially much more amenable to positive intervention: solutions can be developed at the local level, by schools themselves, and in response to the specific circumstances generated in individual schools.This study also asks why males specifically play such a large part in violence in South African society. Examining the theories and empirical evidence regarding the nature and causes of violence in schools globally, it explores them as they relate to South African schools specifically.Overtly based on the value of democratic values in seeking solutions, the book provides very useful resources for a whole range of educational endeavours. It will be of considerable interest to government educational departments, NGOs, teacher-education institutions, and staff and governing bodies in schools.

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title​Short-listed for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Libraries How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, this book establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice and truth in the aftermath of human rights violations. The ethnographic observations and the first-person stories about torture, survival, disappearance, and death reveal the enduring trauma, heartfelt guilt, happiness, battered pride, and scratchy shame that demonstrate the unreserved complexities of truth and justice in post-conflict societies. Phenomenal Justice will be an indispensable contribution to a better understanding of the military dictatorship in Argentina and its aftermath.Trade Review"Insightful and engaging, Phenomenal Justice makes an important contribution to the anthropology of emotion and to understanding the ways that feelings and structural factors shape the lived experience of justice. This is an impressive piece of work.” -- Karen Faulk * co-editor of A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America *"Eva van Roekel’s riveting account of the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation in the wake of Argentina’s Military Dictatorship sheds new light on the vexed relationships between political, legal, moral, ritual, and emotional processes of recovering from trauma or arriving at a point where justice is felt to have been done." -- Michael Jackson * author of The Politics of Storytelling *"New Books Network" interview with Eva van Roekel https://player.fm/series/new-books-network-2472510/eva-van-roekel-phenomenal-justice-violence-and-morality-in-argentina-rutgers-up-2020 * New Books Network *"Transcending a simple right-versus-wrong dichotomy, the author writes an engaging narrative that invites the reader to embrace the complex subtleties of violence and morality, and of truth and reconciliation, in post-conflict Argentina, and by extension in the world at large. Phenomenal Justice is invaluable for students of anthropology and sociology who are approaching their first extensive fieldwork experience. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Van Roekel’s final defence of phenomenal anthropology as a tool for the analysis violence and its aftermath is a convincing one, and the book will have broad appeal to scholars interested in Argentine cultural and political history and transitional justice, memory and philosophy beyond Argentina as we seek to understand more about violence and (ongoing) injustice." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Phenomenal Justice examines what its author calls “the anthropology of emotion” and focuses on the reactions provoked by the 2005 ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional the amnesty laws blocking prosecution for crimes committed under the military dictatorship." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Prologue: The Verdict 1. Phenomenal Justice 2. Things That Matter 3. Time 4. Trauma 5. Disgrace 6. Laughter and Play 7. Where Justice Belongs Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title​Short-listed for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Libraries How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, this book establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice and truth in the aftermath of human rights violations. The ethnographic observations and the first-person stories about torture, survival, disappearance, and death reveal the enduring trauma, heartfelt guilt, happiness, battered pride, and scratchy shame that demonstrate the unreserved complexities of truth and justice in post-conflict societies. Phenomenal Justice will be an indispensable contribution to a better understanding of the military dictatorship in Argentina and its aftermath.Trade Review"Insightful and engaging, Phenomenal Justice makes an important contribution to the anthropology of emotion and to understanding the ways that feelings and structural factors shape the lived experience of justice. This is an impressive piece of work.” -- Karen Faulk * co-editor of A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America *"Eva van Roekel’s riveting account of the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation in the wake of Argentina’s Military Dictatorship sheds new light on the vexed relationships between political, legal, moral, ritual, and emotional processes of recovering from trauma or arriving at a point where justice is felt to have been done." -- Michael Jackson * author of The Politics of Storytelling *"New Books Network" interview with Eva van Roekel https://player.fm/series/new-books-network-2472510/eva-van-roekel-phenomenal-justice-violence-and-morality-in-argentina-rutgers-up-2020 * New Books Network *"Transcending a simple right-versus-wrong dichotomy, the author writes an engaging narrative that invites the reader to embrace the complex subtleties of violence and morality, and of truth and reconciliation, in post-conflict Argentina, and by extension in the world at large. Phenomenal Justice is invaluable for students of anthropology and sociology who are approaching their first extensive fieldwork experience. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Van Roekel’s final defence of phenomenal anthropology as a tool for the analysis violence and its aftermath is a convincing one, and the book will have broad appeal to scholars interested in Argentine cultural and political history and transitional justice, memory and philosophy beyond Argentina as we seek to understand more about violence and (ongoing) injustice." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Phenomenal Justice examines what its author calls “the anthropology of emotion” and focuses on the reactions provoked by the 2005 ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional the amnesty laws blocking prosecution for crimes committed under the military dictatorship." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Prologue: The Verdict 1. Phenomenal Justice 2. Things That Matter 3. Time 4. Trauma 5. Disgrace 6. Laughter and Play 7. Where Justice Belongs Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the genocide, the Rwandan government has attempted to use the education system in order to sustain peace and shape a new generation of Rwandans. Their hope is to create a generation focused on a unified and patriotic future rather than the ethnically divisive past. Yet, the government’s efforts to manipulate global models around citizenship, human rights, and reconciliation to serve its national goals have had mixed results, with new tensions emerging across social groups. Becoming Rwandan argues that although the Rwandan government utilizes global discourses in national policy documents, the way in which teachers and students engage with these global models distorts the intention of the government, resulting in unintended consequences and undermining a sustainable peace.Trade Review“Interesting and informative, Becoming Rwandan brings forth a new set of voices that adds to our understanding of post-genocide nation-building in Rwanda.” -- Molly Sundberg * author of Training for Model Citizenship *"Engaging, interesting, and well-written, Becoming Rwandan offers an original perspective on education and peacebuilding in Rwanda." -- Julia Paulson * editor of Education and Reconciliation *"Touching upon several topics—the role of education in building peace, the use of education in Rwanda specifically, and the failure to achieve true peace when politics enters into education—this work will be illuminating for those interested in education, genocide studies, and transitional justice. Recommended." * Choice *"This book is a must-read for practitioners and scholars exploring the effects of education policy in fragile contexts under a state-driven peacebuilding project." * International Journal of Human Rights Education *“Interesting and informative, Becoming Rwandan brings forth a new set of voices that adds to our understanding of post-genocide nation-building in Rwanda.” -- Molly Sundberg * author of Training for Model Citizenship *"Engaging, interesting, and well-written, Becoming Rwandan offers an original perspective on education and peacebuilding in Rwanda." -- Julia Paulson * editor of Education and Reconciliation *"Touching upon several topics—the role of education in building peace, the use of education in Rwanda specifically, and the failure to achieve true peace when politics enters into education—this work will be illuminating for those interested in education, genocide studies, and transitional justice. Recommended." * Choice *"This book is a must-read for practitioners and scholars exploring the effects of education policy in fragile contexts under a state-driven peacebuilding project." * International Journal of Human Rights Education *Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Role of Education in Transitional Justice, Peacebuilding, and Reconciliation 3 Constructing Citizenship and a Post-Genocide Identity 4 Using and Abusing Human Rights Norms 5 Addressing the Genocide and Promoting Reconciliation 6 The Potential and Limitations of Education for Peacebuilding Appendix 1: Research Methods and Data Analysis Appendix 2: National Policy Documents, Curricula, and Textbooks Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books - Caregiving category​ESS Public Sociology Award​Recommended Book in Domestic Violence by DomesticShelters.org How do you go about caregiving for an ill and elderly parent with a lifelong history of abuse and control, intertwined with expressions of intense love and adoration? How do you reconcile the resulting ambivalence, fear, and anger? Welcome to Wherever We Are is a meditation on what we hold onto, what we let go of, how we remember others and ultimately how we’re remembered. Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her father, a man who was simultaneously loud, gentle, loving and cruel and whose brilliant career as an advertising executive included creating slogans like “Hey, how ‘bout a nice Hawaiian punch?” Wrestling with emotional extremes that characterize abusive relationships, Cohan shows how she navigated life with a man who was at once generous and affectionate, creating magical coat pockets filled with chocolate kisses when she was a little girl, yet who was also prone to searing, vicious remarks like “You’d make my life easier if you’d commit suicide.” In this gripping memoir, Cohan tells her unique personal story while also weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy and loss. A story most of us can relate to as we reckon with past and future choices against the backdrop of complicated family dynamics, Welcome to Wherever We Are is about how we might come to live our own lives better amidst unpredictable changes through grief and healing.Questions for Discussion (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/11140346/Cohan_Discussion.docx) Trade Review“With scrupulous honesty, and what Deborah so beautifully calls “tender curiosity,” this is a journey toward reconciliation with the ambivalence she felt towards an emotionally abusive father. She winds up with love. Her memoir is an inspiration.” -- Abigail Thomas * author of What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir and A Three Dog Life *“Cohan’s beautifully-nuanced book is an important addition to a distinctly American strain of memoir that seeks to fully explore family dynamics with all of its complications, glories, travails, and facing of mortality. This is a slice of life that is both wide and deep.” -- Sue William Silverman * author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You *“Welcome to Wherever We Are is a memoir of a difficult family, a relationship between a father and a daughter. It involves abuse, dislike, love and a great deal of caring. It is a memoir, but one guided by the sociological lens of writer Deborah Cohan. She offers us a personal story set in the context of complicated family relationships in contemporary American society.” -- Barbara J. Risman * co-editor of Families as They Really Are *"Are we doing enough to protect children from predators?" by Gracie Bonds Staples: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/are-doing-enough-protect-children-from-predators/yOPwPpYM1VLO0dnWpGwFML/ * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *"How to Remodel Your Home With Your Significant Other—Without Arguing Even Once," by Kelsey Mulvey: https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/home-improvement/renovations/home-remodeling-couple * Real Simple *"Love the sinner, hate the sin: thus, unfurls Cohan's memoir. Fractional love and uncomfortable rage toward her father blend with her longing for his abusive behavior to disappear and leave only the often extraordinary father. Cohan's crystalline honest prose brings the reader inside the dilemma of caring for an aging parent who brought her torment laced with love and magic--what is it like to adore, fear, and protect yourself from the father you feared and cherished?" -- Randy Susan Meyers * author of The Murderer’s Daughters and Waisted *"An Open Letter to College Students about the Heartbeat Bill: Notes from a College Professor on Abortion" by Deborah J. Cohan, Ph.D.: https://medium.com/@debjcoh/an-open-letter-to-college-students-about-the-heartbeat-bill-notes-from-a-college-professor-on-63effdcabdb6 * Medium *"Deborah Cohan has written a brave and beautiful memoir….not ‘beautiful’ in the sense of pretty or lovely or sugarcoated in any way. Beautifully written, yes, but also beautiful in its raw, graphic honesty—that is, in the sense that truth is beauty. There is much hard-won wisdom in these pages--wisdom gleaned from Cohan’s years of caregiving for an abusive parent--and it will benefit those who find themselves navigating that rocky terrain. But this is also a story about life and death, love and loss, and the complicated nature of family and relationship. Which makes Welcome to Wherever We Are a universal story, one with wisdom for us all." -- Abby Seixas * author of Finding the Deep River Within *"How to Support an Employee Coming Out at Work," by Skye Schooley https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15141-employee-coming-out.html * Business News Daily *"The Society Pages 3Q with Deborah J. Cohan" https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2019/08/06/3q-with-deborah-j-cohan/ * The Society Pages *"There Has to Be a Better Way," by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/08/21/diversity-and-antiharassment-trainings-must-be-improved-opinion * Inside Higher Education *"The Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020" by Stephanie Elliot https://shereads.com/most-anticipated-memoirs-of-2020/ * She Reads *"How to Write a Lot on a Heavy Teaching Load" by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/12/05/how-write-more-regularly-and-publish-more-often-despite-having-heavy-teaching-load * Inside Higher Education *Mention of Welcome to Wherever We Are in the November 2019 issue of Active for Life http://scottvilleareaseniorcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/November-2019-Working-Copy.pdf * Active for Life (Mason County, MI) *"Author Deborah J. Cohan: 'How To Connect With Yourself To Live With Better Relationships'" by Kristin Marquet https://medium.com/authority-magazine/author-deborah-j-cohan-how-to-connect-with-yourself-to-live-with-better-relationships-9113bf69603a * Authority Magazine *"Cohan tells her personal journey while weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy and loss. Most people deal with at least one of these issues. The book explores how people could live better amidst unpredictable changes through grief and healing." * Cleveland Jewish News *"In this engrossing memoir, sociologist Deborah Cohan candidly describes her struggle caring for her aging father, who, as she was growing up, was at once kind and cruel. Undoubtedly, readers will be able to relate to Cohan’s explorations into the complexities of family, evolving relationships, and complicated emotions." * Ms. Magazine *"#GirlDad a nice sentiment but might come with mixed emotions" by Gracie Bonds Staples https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/girldad-nice-sentiment-but-might-come-with-mixed-emotions/sSVEg8lX35QBA8FNsWjU0N/ * Atlanta Journal Constitution *"Author and Shaker Heights native Deborah J. Cohan to discuss her new book, 'Welcome to Wherever We Are'" by Roxanne Washington https://www.cleveland.com/living/2020/02/author-and-shaker-heights-native-deborah-j-cohan-to-discuss-her-new-book-welcome-to-wherever-we-are.html * Cleveland Plain Dealer *"Phone Calls: An Excerpt From Welcome To Wherever We Are by Deborah J. Cohan" https://www.ravishly.com/phone-calls-excerpt-welcome-wherever-we-are * Ravishly *"Cohan’s father was a story of opposites – abusive and controlling and also at times gentle and loving. When he gets sick and she must take care of him, she’s unsure how to manage her emotions. She must let go of her anger in order to help her father and to come to terms with her own grief to begin to heal." * She Reads *"Welcome to Wherever We Are is a brave memoir that sheds light on the challenges of caring for an abusive parent. This volume is bound to offer solace and support to those in similar situations. Deborah J. Cohan’s honesty and compassion make this a unique and valuable memoir for anyone who has survived abuse by a parent and struggles to make sense of the conflicting feelings of love and responsibility as well as anger and resentment toward their abuser." * Ms. Magazine *"Column: What if the elderly parent you’re caring for abused you as a child? New memoir explores a timely, complicated subject" by Heidi Stevens https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-coronavirus-welcome-to-wherever-we-are-book-0331-20200331-hfnbmefz7jdffavxle5tpu6j7i-story.html? * Chicago Tribune *"This memoir of caretaking unspools so many of the complicated emotions wrapped up in helping a parent as they die. Writing about taking care of her father, Deborah J. Cohan details the realities of what it means to get sick and the toll it takes on the people around the ill person. A compassionate narrative, the book shows us how life doesn’t stop when we are providing care to sick loved ones — it only gets trickier." * Buzzfeed *"Both Sides of the Truth" by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2020/summer/turning-points.html * Brandeis Magazine *"A Memoir Of Family, Caregiving and Redemption: 'Some Things Can Be Deleted, Just Often Not The Memory" by Deborah J. Cohan * Ms. Magazine *"In this gripping memoir, Cohan tells her unique personal story while also weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy, and loss." * The Ohioana *"Cohan writes poetically about the love we share with others, even those who harm us. Yet, she never sees herself as a victim, rather, Cohan finds the courage to allow herself to be vulnerable, to break, and to find her way into strength and resilience. Her experiences evoke in her a deep compassion for others....As a public sociologist and former domestic abuse counselor, Cohan makes potent links between sociology and memoir. She draws parallels between memoir writing and qualitative research methods, specifically case studies." * Sociological Forum *"At the heart of this book is Cohan’s self-awareness that her father’s love and abuse were intertwined and her ongoing recovery from that confusing simultaneity led her to write this book. It is a rare author who can artfully write a memoir that is both personal and a deep sociological analysis of family and identity. This book is applicable to any sociology or psychology course yet will also appeal to memoir writers and readers who want an example of a compassionate treatment of a life that includes love, abuse, and ongoing recovery." * Psychology of Women Quarterly *“Welcome to Wherever We Are is the perfect illustration of the whole spectrum of intergenerational solidarity, conflict, and ambiguity within family relationships and ties during both life and death.” -- Sarah E. Patterson * Contexts *"In sum, Welcome to Wherever We Are centers the personal—the inner conflict that Cohan had with wanting to provide good care, be a good daughter, and still love an abusive father through continued abuse. It is a book about the contradictions in relationships, in care, and in abuse. While it significantly adds to the research on caregiving and family violence, it does not do so from a distance but breaks down the barriers between academic literature and our own personal experiences by weaving together intimate personal stories grounded in the larger social context. It is up close, personal, emotional, and messy." -- Christina Barmon * Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course *Table of ContentsIntroduction Phone Calls The Diaries Messages Accidents Sugar The Dinner Table The Kaleidoscope Medical Records The Gold Pen The Volunteer Random Acts of Kindness Death Notice Obituary Ashes Birthday Letter Re-learning to Fly The Birth(day) Ring Worry Machine Change of Address Epilogue Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisColombia’s headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one—the ideal and the real—summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence—and resistance to it—characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment. Trade Review"Both eloquent and straightforward, Toby Miller artfully contextualizes violence in the culture of Colombia. The Persistence of Violence brings together the study of popular culture, political economy, and social movement issues in ways that offer a fresh view to scholarship of the region." -- George Yúdice * author of The Expediency of Culture *"Toby Miller tackles the considerable task of analyzing the roots of violence in Colombia with acumen, attention to empirical research, and great sensibility to listen to Colombian actors themselves. The Persistence of Violence will remain an essential reference to Cultural Studies approaches to violence in Colombia and will be read with interest by the general public, students, and specialists alike." -- Idelber Avelar * author of Transculturación en suspenso: Los orígenes de los cánones narrativos colombianos *"A welcome and timely contribution to the study of perhaps the most puzzling aspect of modern Colombia. Students of popular culture will find here much that is useful, especially as it pertains to recent developments such as the current Duque administration’s forays into economia naranja. Given the acuity of the analyses presented therein and their currency, Miller’s (and his co-authors’) work deserves ample circulation." * Hispanic Research Journal *"Both eloquent and straightforward, Toby Miller artfully contextualizes violence in the culture of Colombia. The Persistence of Violence brings together the study of popular culture, political economy, and social movement issues in ways that offer a fresh view to scholarship of the region." -- George Yúdice * author of The Expediency of Culture *"Toby Miller tackles the considerable task of analyzing the roots of violence in Colombia with acumen, attention to empirical research, and great sensibility to listen to Colombian actors themselves. The Persistence of Violence will remain an essential reference to Cultural Studies approaches to violence in Colombia and will be read with interest by the general public, students, and specialists alike." -- Idelber Avelar * author of Transculturación en suspenso: Los orígenes de los cánones narrativos colombianos *"A welcome and timely contribution to the study of perhaps the most puzzling aspect of modern Colombia. Students of popular culture will find here much that is useful, especially as it pertains to recent developments such as the current Duque administration’s forays into economia naranja. Given the acuity of the analyses presented therein and their currency, Miller’s (and his co-authors’) work deserves ample circulation." * Hispanic Research Journal *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction: The Persistence of Violence Chapter One: The Absence and Presence of State Militarism: Violence, Football, Narcos (with Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo) Chapter Two: Industry Policy and Sex Tourism Meet the Case of the Destroyed Plaque (with Olga Lucia Sorzano and Anamaria Tamayo Duque) Chapter Three: ‘I Myself Had to Remain Silent When They Threatened My Children’: Colombian Journalists and Self-Censorship Meet Prime-Time Narcos (with Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave Cabrera) Chapter Four: Green Passion Afloat: The Magdalena River (with Marta Milena Barrios) Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisArmed conflicts continue to wreak havoc on children and families around the world with profound effects. In 2017, 420 million children—nearly one in five—were living in conflict-affected areas, an increase in 30 million from the previous year. The recent surge in war-induced migration, referred to as a “global refugee crisis” has made migration a highly politicized issue, with refugee populations and host countries facing unique challenges. We know from research related to asylum seeking families that it is vital to think about children and families in relation to what it means to stay together, what it means for parents to be separated from their children, and the kinds of everyday tensions that emerge in living in dangerous, insecure, and precarious circumstances. In Global Child, the authors draw on what they have learned through their collaborative undertakings, and highlight the unique features of participatory, arts-based, and socio-ecological approaches to studying war-affected children and families, demonstrating the collective strength as well as the limitations and ethical implications of such research. Building on work across the Global South and the Global North, this book aims to deepen an understanding of their tri-pillared approach, and the potential of this methodology for contributing to improved practices in working with war-affected children and their families.Trade Review"Global Child is a gift. It enables the reader to see and understand what ecological, participatory, ethical, and collaborative work looks like; and it makes me hopeful for research, practice, and policy in contexts of conflict and migration that embodies the listening, unlearning, and re-envisioning that this book illuminates."— Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Author of Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education "Global Child, skillfully edited by Denov, Mitchell, and Rabiau, is a richly textured collection that highlights the impact of war, displacement, and migration on children and families worldwide. The compelling use of participatory, arts-based research makes visible the courage, integrity, and creativity of both researchers and participants alike. Their difficult knowledge needs to be widely shared in the Global North and the Global South."— Bonny Norton, Author of Identity and Language Learning "Global Child is a gift. It enables the reader to see and understand what ecological, participatory, ethical, and collaborative work looks like; and it makes me hopeful for research, practice, and policy in contexts of conflict and migration that embodies the listening, unlearning, and re-envisioning that this book illuminates."— Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Author of Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Educat "Global Child, skillfully edited by Denov, Mitchell, and Rabiau, is a richly textured collection that highlights the impact of war, displacement, and migration on children and families worldwide. The compelling use of participatory, arts-based research makes visible the courage, integrity, and creativity of both researchers and participants alike. Their difficult knowledge needs to be widely shared in the Global North and the Global South."— Bonny Norton, Author of Identity and Language LearningTable of Contents1 A Tri-pillared Approach to Studying Children and Families Affected by War, Migration, and Displacement Myriam Denov, Claudia Mitchell, and Marjorie Rabiau PART I: SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2 Unlearn and Deconstruct to Collaboratively Build a Sense of Well-Being around Children Affected by War: A Family and Community Approach Marjorie Rabiau, Myriam Denov, and Karen Paul 3 A Case for Preservice Teachers Reflexively Engaging in Work with War-Affected Children in Canadian Schools Nagui Demian and Claudia Mitchell 4 The Thunder of War Is Much Less Heard: Engaging Young People and Older Adults to Restore Social Cohesion in the Midst of Crisis in Eastern Ukraine Karen Paul, Inka Weissbecker, Katie Mullins, and Andrew Jones 5 Best Practices for Children and Their Families in Postconflict Settings: A Culturally Informed, Strength-Based Family Therapy Model Sharon Bond and Jaswant Guzder PART II: PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES 6 Navigating Participatory Research with Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Conceptual, Methodological, and Ethical Concerns Neil Bilotta, Maya Fennig, Myriam Denov, Alusine Bah, and Ines Marchand 7 The Right to Be Heard in Research: Participatory Research Ethics in Kakuma Refugee Camp Neil Bilotta and Myriam Denov 8 Ethical Tensions in Participatory Research with Queer Young People from Refugee Backgrounds: Critiquing a Code of Ethics EJ Milne, Churnjeet Mahn, Mayra Guzman, Farhio Ahmed, and Anonymous Members of RX 9 An Arts-Based Participatory Approach to Research with Migrant Young People in South Africa Glynis Clacherty and Thea Shahrokh PART III: ARTS-BASED APPROACHES 10 Arts-Based Approaches Research Innovations in Work with War-Affected Children and Youth: A Synthesis Warren Linds, Miranda D’amico, Myriam Denov, Claudia Mitchell, and Meaghan Shevell 11 Creative Arts Therapies in School-Based Interventions with Children and Youth Affected by War Miranda D’amico 12 Drawing to Be Seen and Heard: A Critical Analysis of Girls’ Drawings in Three Refugee Camps Fatima Khan 13 Young People with Refugee Experiences as Authors and Artists of Picture Books April Mandrona, EJ Milne, Thea Shahrokh, Michaelina Jakala, Mateja Celestina, Leesa Hamilton, and Claudia Mitchell Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisScience plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed or attempted rape” are central for raising awareness. Yet such scientific facts often become points of controversy, particularly as conservative scholars and public figures attempt to discredit feminist activists. Rape by the Numbers explores scientists’ approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research. Scholars who study rape often face a range of social pressures and resource constraints, including some that are unique to feminized and politicized fields of inquiry. Collectively, these matters have far-reaching consequences. Scientific projects may determine who counts as a potential victim/survivor or aggressor in a range of contexts, shaping research agendas as well as state policy, anti-violence programming and services, and public perceptions. Social processes within the study of rape determine which knowledges count as credible science, and thus who may count as an expert in academic and public contexts.Trade Review"This book will truly be a welcome wake-up call for those social scientists dedicated to studying rape and sexual assault. It effectively reveals the many blind spots of much of the work that has been done over the past several decades, and is refreshingly full of valid and reasonable recommendations and potential solutions to help move this field of study forward most inclusively and productively." -- Deborah White * Professor, Trent University *“Rape by the Numbers is an important, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated, and engagingly presented book. It brings concepts from the field of science and technology studies together with quantitative and qualitative data to generate an important analysis and set of recommendations about the social science of sexual violence.” -- Alexandra Rutherford * director, Psychology's Feminist Voices Oral History and Digital Archive Project, York University *"Rape by the Numbers lights a path toward more critical and equitable rape research. I encourage students of gender, sexuality, labor, feminist science, and violence to follow where that newly lit path leads." * Gender & Society *"This book will truly be a welcome wake-up call for those social scientists dedicated to studying rape and sexual assault. It effectively reveals the many blind spots of much of the work that has been done over the past several decades, and is refreshingly full of valid and reasonable recommendations and potential solutions to help move this field of study forward most inclusively and productively." -- Deborah White * Professor, Trent University *“Rape by the Numbers is an important, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated, and engagingly presented book. It brings concepts from the field of science and technology studies together with quantitative and qualitative data to generate an important analysis and set of recommendations about the social science of sexual violence.” -- Alexandra Rutherford * director, Psychology's Feminist Voices Oral History and Digital Archive Project, York University *"Rape by the Numbers lights a path toward more critical and equitable rape research. I encourage students of gender, sexuality, labor, feminist science, and violence to follow where that newly lit path leads." * Gender & Society *"This book is essential reading, and a powerful reminder to sexual violence scientists to consider and reflect on the partial knowledge they/we produce, and the social processes that impact and are impacted by their/our research." -- Heather R. Hlavka * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I Conceptualizing Rape 2 Locating the Problem 3 Accounting for Rape 4 Investigating the Aftermath Part II Social Mechanisms 5 Choosing to Study Rape 6 Dividends and Detriments of Dissent 7 Conclusion Appendix: Interview Guide Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.Trade Review"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for t *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The Abuse Lives in our Blood” 1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath 2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin 3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity 4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island 6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.Trade Review"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for t *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The Abuse Lives in our Blood” 1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath 2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin 3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity 4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island 6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHigh-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established tradition of studying women in war, we tend to focus on their roles as mothers or carers, as peacemakers, or sometimes as revolutionaries. This book explains the gendered underpinnings of why women engage in feminist mobilization, even when this takes place in a ‘domain of losses’ that exposes them to high levels of risk. It follows four women’s organizations who break with traditional gender norms and defy armed groups’ social and territorial control, exposing them to retributive punishment. It provides rich evidence to document how women are able to surmount the barriers to mobilization when they frame their actions in terms of resistance, rather than fear. Trade Review"High Risk Feminism in Colombia updates all our frameworks to explain why women mobilize for gender justice in the face of explicit threats making them targets for violence. In Colombia—but with relevance to Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and many other contexts—Zulver shows how feminist identities and frames have evolved well beyond the strategic essentialism of motherhood, empowering current generations to protest." -- Jacqui True * author of The Political Economy of Violence against Women *"High Risk Feminism in Colombia is a much-needed contribution to our understanding of why, how, and when women engage in gender justice struggles (feminisms), even in contexts where such visible participation puts them at high risk. This is truly an engaged project and a rigorous academic effort to bring to life the agency of women struggling for gender justice in violent contexts where their lives are threatened." -- María Emma Wills Obregón * Adjoint Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes *"Using the idea of ‘high risk feminism’ allows Julia Zulver to unpack the multiple risks faced by women activists and the strategies and reasonings they deploy to defend their rights as women. Considering the ongoing gendered violence and dispossession in Colombia and Latin America, understanding and supporting feminist activism is more important than ever." -- Jelke Boesten * co-editor of Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration an *"This fascinating and imperative volume examines feminist mobilization and collective resistance catalyzed by danger, loss and risk in Colombia." * Ms. Magazine *"Zulver offers a compellingly theorized and empirically profound insight into Colombian women’s civil society mobilization. High-Risk Feminism in Colombia is an essential read for scholars of gender and armed conflict, as well as those interested in civilian agency during war." -- Anne-Kathrin Kreft * International Affairs *"High-Risk Feminism in Columbia provides a new explanation of why women engage in feminist mobilization despite the high risks...Through detailed and conscientious documentation of four women's organizations, Julia Zulver paints an impressive picture of feminist agency in violent contexts. The book is theoretically innovative and based on a compelling methodology and impressive empirics... [I]ts insights are relevant for a wide range of contexts, such as Afghanistan, Kenya, or the Philippines. Other peace scholars will surely take up the original framework that Zulver proposes in order to advance our knowledge of feminist mobilization." -- Peace Studies section * International Studies Association *Table of ContentsList of Photos & Maps List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia 2. Why Women Mobilize in High-Risk Contexts 3. The High-Risk Feminism Framework 4. The Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas: Creating a Site of Feminist Resistance in a Conflict Zone 5. Afromupaz: Intersectional High-Risk Feminism in Cuerpo y Cara de Mujer 6. La Soledad: When Women Do Not Mobilise 7. Conclusion: Why Understanding Women’s Grassroots Mobilization Matters Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a team of anthropologists and sociologists across six localities of Michoacán, ranging from the most rural to the most urban, the contributors consider five varieties of societal responses: local citizen security councils that define security and attempt to influence its policing, including by self-defense groups; cultural activists looking to create safe 'cultural' fields from which to transform their social environment; organizations in the state capital that combine legal and political strategies against less visible violence (forced disappearance, gender violence, anti-LGBT); church-linked initiatives bringing to bear the church’s institutionality, including to denounce 'state capture'; and women’s organizations creating 'safe' networks allowing to influence violence prevention.Trade Review"In the face of government failure to provide justice and security, how have Mexican citizens – cultural and political activists, women’s collectives, church groups – responded to violence and crime that upend their daily lives? This unique comparative ethnography by a multidisciplinary team of scholars foregrounds the creative, courageous, and arduous work through which people are stitching the torn social fabric of their communities. Empirically and conceptually rich, it is an essential, timely read." -- Ieva Jusionyte * author of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border *"This book takes an original lens to the crisis of violence, crime and insecurity in Mexico. Through an ethnographic approach, it critically and insightfully accompanies the efforts of social and civic actors in varied locations of Michoacán, from urban to more rural, to find a space to act creatively in and on the many violences they have to live with." -- Jenny Pearce * author of Politics without Violence? Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment *"In the face of government failure to provide justice and security, how have Mexican citizens – cultural and political activists, women’s collectives, church groups – responded to violence and crime that upend their daily lives? This unique comparative ethnography by a multidisciplinary team of scholars foregrounds the creative, courageous, and arduous work through which people are stitching the torn social fabric of their communities. Empirically and conceptually rich, it is an essential, timely read." -- Ieva Jusionyte * author of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border *"This book takes an original lens to the crisis of violence, crime and insecurity in Mexico. Through an ethnographic approach, it critically and insightfully accompanies the efforts of social and civic actors in varied locations of Michoacán, from urban to more rural, to find a space to act creatively in and on the many violences they have to live with." -- Jenny Pearce * author of Politics without Violence? Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Comparative Ethnography of Societal Responses to Crime and Violence in Mexico Chapter 2: Local Citizen Security Councils: Sustainable Responses to a Crisis of Trust in State Security Provision Chapter 3: Cultural Activism: Mobilizing Art and Culture to Build Transformative Socio-Political Fields Chapter 4: Socio-legal Activism in Contexts of Criminal and Institutional Violence: Challenging Forced Disappearances, Gender Violence, and Assaults on LGBT and Sex Workers Chapter 5: Churches as Institutions in Regions of Violent Organized Crime Chapter 6: A Room of Their Own: Barriers to Women’s Activism Against the Continuum of Violence in Michoacán, Mexico Chapter 7: Key Objectives, Strategic Choices and Impact of Societal Responses to Violence: Lessons for Policy and Practice Chapter 8: Society to the Rescue? Rethinking Responses to Crime-Related Violence and Corruption Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. In the Crossfire of History:Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that erase women’s role in shaping resistance movements.The transformative mode of these examples expands the definition of heroism and defiance. To prevent these types of heroism from slipping into the abyss of history, this collection brings forth and celebrates women’s fortitude in conflict zones. In the Crossfire of History shines a light onwomen across the globe who are resisting the sociopolitical and economic injustices in their nation-states. Trade Review“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.” -- Swapna M. Banerjee * Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York *"This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural. The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) *“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.” -- Swapna M. Banerjee * Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York *"This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural. The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Portraits of ResistancesPart I: Representation of Resistance in Art and MediaChapter 1: Syrian Women’s Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative InsurgencyStefanie SevcikChapter 2: Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War MoviesFarzana AkhterChapter 3: Structuring Jinelogy within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western MediaLava AsaadPart II: Literature and ResistanceChapter 4: All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in ArgentinaLucía García-SantanaChapter 5: The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of ResistanceDoaa OmranChapter 6: South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition LiteratureMargaret HagemanChapter 7: Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking IndiaCarolyn OwnbeyChapter 8: Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a “Thousand Mirrors” of ResistanceMoumin QuaziPart III: Advocacy / ActivismChapter 9: Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of IndiaNyla Ali KhanChapter 10: Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Study on University StudentsShafinur NaharChapter 11: They Fear Us Because We are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and its AdversariesMatthew SpencerConclusion: Detangling ResistanceNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. In the Crossfire of History:Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that erase women’s role in shaping resistance movements.The transformative mode of these examples expands the definition of heroism and defiance. To prevent these types of heroism from slipping into the abyss of history, this collection brings forth and celebrates women’s fortitude in conflict zones. In the Crossfire of History shines a light onwomen across the globe who are resisting the sociopolitical and economic injustices in their nation-states. Trade Review“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.” -- Swapna M. Banerjee * Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York *"This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural. The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) *“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.” -- Swapna M. Banerjee * Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York *"This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural. The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Portraits of ResistancesPart I: Representation of Resistance in Art and MediaChapter 1: Syrian Women’s Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative InsurgencyStefanie SevcikChapter 2: Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War MoviesFarzana AkhterChapter 3: Structuring Jinelogy within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western MediaLava AsaadPart II: Literature and ResistanceChapter 4: All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in ArgentinaLucía García-SantanaChapter 5: The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of ResistanceDoaa OmranChapter 6: South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition LiteratureMargaret HagemanChapter 7: Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking IndiaCarolyn OwnbeyChapter 8: Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a “Thousand Mirrors” of ResistanceMoumin QuaziPart III: Advocacy / ActivismChapter 9: Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of IndiaNyla Ali KhanChapter 10: Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Study on University StudentsShafinur NaharChapter 11: They Fear Us Because We are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and its AdversariesMatthew SpencerConclusion: Detangling ResistanceNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities. Trade Review“Destroy Them Gradually focuses our attention on spatial techniques of displacement and their prominent role in group destruction. Basso offers a compelling argument for taking displacement seriously as a crime and demonstrates the new and profound insights one gains when giving fuller attention to questions of when, where, and why this method of atrocity is deployed.”— Andrew Woolford, author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada a "In this brilliant intervention, Andrew Basso demonstrates that displacement constitutes its own understudied method of mass violence. Basso reveals the role of displacement in historical atrocities and, as we nosedive into intense climate change, how it is rapidly becoming perhaps the most prevalent form of mass destruction. Anyone concerned with the future of mass violence should read this timely contribution."— Benjamin Meiches, Benjamin Meiches, associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University oTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part I: Displacement Atrocity Crimes Chapter 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement Chapter 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes Part II: German South-West Africa Chapter 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652-1904) Chapter 4 Extermination: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908) Chapter 5 Inescapability: The Nama Genocide (1905-1908) Part III: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey Chapter 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1915) Chapter 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914-1925) Chapter 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1897) Part IV: Central and East Europe Chapter 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (9th Century-1945) Chapter 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of the Germans (1944-1950) Chapter 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933-1945) Part V: Climate Violence and Conclusions Chapter 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement in the 21st Century Chapter 13 Farce: To Destroy Them Gradually? Chapter 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006 and 2007. Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence. It is a sweeping work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the Anfāl operations as the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality and acts of translation—testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorials, symbolic cemeteries, and infinite pursuit of justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence and its living on. Trade Review"Being Human is an unsettling and urgent work of scholarship that transcends the confines of the university to address some of the most compelling conditions of human life and death. Anthropological hospitality, the idea at the heart of this book, provides an illuminating and passionate perspective on the plight of locality in the fight for the recognition of global justice." -- Homi K. Bhabha * Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University *"In rich, poetic prose, Fazil Moradi brilliantly unravels the politics of reading, witnessing, and memory challenging us to listen to survivors of the al-Anfal to understand the limits and possibilities of justice and accountability without losing sight of the hope and trust required for acts of hospitality and translation in Being Human." -- Victoria Sanford * Victoria Sanford, author of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Fath *"Raw and beautiful. Moradi shows us how to listen to survivors of mass violence. In silences, gestures, and words from generous hosts who lived through the mass Anfal attacks of late 20th-century Kurdistan Iraq, Moradi implicates political modernity. This book richly and poignantly displays the dignity and beauty of both people lost, and those who live on having survived and witnessed. It is painful to read, and that is one of its successes. All students of the modern state should read this book." -- Diane E. King * Diane E. King, author of Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Map of the Anfāl operations Prologue 1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village 2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity 3 Homeless in the World 4 The Baghdād Tribunal 5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre 6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation? 7 Physiological Disquiet Epilogue: Genosite Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough Ruth DyckFehderau is the writer, this is a community project, owned and controlled by the James Bay Cree health dept (because stories are medicine)The James Bay Cree hired outside writers because “our own writers have enough to carry.” Each story was difficult to retell to the writer. Most residential school stories are still passed on in traditional ways – there are many healing projects going on, this is just one project to deliver the stories to a wider audience people whose stories are in the book are people who want their stories in a book (not a traditional Cree art form), want their stories shared outside eeyou istchee, want to tell their stories anonymously because they hold a position of prominence in the community and feel they can’t speak freely otherwise, they want to control how children and grandchildren discover their stories, sometimes protecting perpetrators (whom they might love) just for other privacy reasons methodology: hearing the story, sometimes multiple times, going away to write it up, then returning for approval, as many times as that took. Resources were offered for healing throughout the process, themes heard throughout: healing does not mean justice has been done; sometimes this is the first time these stories have been told; storytellers worried about telling the stories of others; the intent of these stories is to help others although the book contains difficult content the stories are often uplifting – no need to be afraid of what is on the page. Each story, each person, each healing process, is different.first book will be followed by 2 or 3 more in the coming years.Trade Review“These previously unwritten stories of lived, traumatized experiences are testament to the storytellers’ courage and strength and resilience. When the rich Cree traditional and spiritual relationship with land and with family is harmed by separation, hatred, and fear - a harm resulting in anger and loss of values, identity, and self-worth - these storytellers find ways to heal. Through their stories, you learn about culture as treatment, about the power of forgiveness and love, and about peaceful co-existence in community as essential to healing, belief, and advancing true reconciliation.” —Chief Willie Littlechild, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, Former residential school student athlete, Order of Canada; Order of Sport, Member of Sports Halls of Fame, Canada and North America “These Cree stories, told with utmost respect and a feeling of safety, are gifts. They are medicine.” —Joanna Campiou, Woodland/Plains Cree Knowledge Keeper “This is a difficult but necessary book. There’s a power to truth and to the realities of the Indian Residential School system, but for those wanting to see strength and movement toward hope, this is the book for you. These stories hold that hope close to the heart. What shines through is a love of the land, a love of community, a love of the Cree language, a love of family – exactly what colonial forces like the IRS system tried to destroy but couldn’t.” —Conor Kerr, Metis/Ukrainian author, Avenue of Champions, Giller Prize longlist

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence".The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by people involving others who are both strangers to and intimate with each other. Proximity violence provides and includes a fiduciary kind of "proximity", of "dependent intimacy", where the trust that the victim places in the other (her tormentor) favours the exercise of violence itself, allowing it to take place, thus making it practically imperceptible when not actually normal, in extreme cases.In turn, this confidence is comparable to "a veil of Maja" which, in conditions of vulnerability typical of victims, attenuates the consequences of the violence undergone or the omens of what becomes violent action.The conceptual triad: proximity violence, vulnerability, resistance-resilience is explored here, in the three main chapters and in the details aimed at identifying, in the final chapter, the mutual interconnections. This book will be of particular interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of sociology and gender studiesTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies.Table of ContentsPart I Against Essentialism and Beyond Abstract Universalism: Theorising Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts 1 Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction 2 Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts Part II Policy Intersections: Combating Gender-Based Violence and Managing Migration3 Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria4 The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks 5 Gender-based Violence as a ‘Consequence of Migration’: How Culturalist Framings of GBV Ignore Structural Violence Against Migrant Women in France 6 Crimmigration and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Asylum Seekers in Israel Part III Understanding Policy Implications, Foregrounding Women’s Voices 7 Vulnerability and Resiliency: Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Family Violence 8 Between the Law and a Hard Place—A Victim of Trafficking Meets the Norwegian Migration Regime 9 Gender-Based Violence as a Continuum in the Lives of Women Seeking Asylum: From Resistance to Patriarchy to Patterns of Institutional Violence in France10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs Myanmar’s military adjusts to life with its former opponents holding elected office, Conflict in Myanmar showcases innovative research by a rising generation of scholars, analysts and practitioners about the past five years of political transformation. Each of its seventeen chapters, from participants in the 2015 Myanmar Update conference held at the Australian National University, builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing violence and political contention. The authors offer a variety of fresh views on the most intractable and controversial aspects of Myanmar’s long-running civil wars, fractious politics and religious tensions. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific continues and deepens a tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions that matter to both the inhabitants and neighbours of one of Southeast Asia’s most complicated and fascinating countries.

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Book SynopsisIndonesians of Chinese descent constitute only two to three per cent of the country's population but dominate the private business sector. Serious acts of violence against this ethnic minority occurred during Indonesia's colonial past, and after a period relatively free of such incidents became increasingly frequent during the final years of Suharto's New Order. In this first book-length study of anti-Chinese hostility during the collapse of Suharto's regime, Jemma Purdey presents a close analysis of the main incidents of violence during the transitional period between 1996 and 1999, and the unprecedented process of national reflection that ensued. The mass violence that accompanied the fall of the regime in May 1998 affected not only ethnic Chinese but also indigenous or pribumi Indonesians. The author places anti-Chinese riots within this broader context, considering causes and agency as well as the way violence has been represented. While ethnicity and prejudice are central to the explanation put forward, she concludes that politics, economics and religion offer additional keys to understanding why such outbreaks occurred.

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