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Palgrave Interventions Activists And Academics Respond To Violence 2004 Edition by E. Castelli J. Jakobsen
This collection brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. Activists and academics consider questions such as; are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to effectively respond to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both 'religion' and 'secularism' in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer inclusive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence. Table of contents : Introduction; E.Castelli & J.Jakobsen Responding to Violence Against Women; N.Abdo Cultural Resistance to Dominant Paradigms of Violence; F.Afzal-Kahn Naming Emnity; G.Anidjar The Wrong Victims; S.Bachner Feminism Violence and the Usefullness of Ambiguity; K.Beckman Investigating a 'Right to Peace'; H.Cobban Empire of Insecurity; N.C.Crawford Understanding the Relationship Between Law and Violence as a Matter of Law; L.A.Crooms Recovering a Cherokee Critical Theory of Violence; L.E.Donaldson On Religion Secularism and Violence; J.R.Jacobsen Finding the Words; I.Klepfisz State Society and Violence; T.Longman Dangerous Crossings; L.A.Lorentzen War and the Pacification of the US Citizen Since 1970; C.Lutz Domestic Terrorism; C.Lutz & J.Elliton The Violence of Poverty in America; L.C.Minnite Violence of Protection; M.Moallem 'Sisterhood' After Terrorism; K.Poethig The Ethics and Politics of Hindu Hatred; A.Rao Women War and Biblical Interpretation After 9/11; E.Runions Rethinking 'Home' A.Smith Civil Society and Nation-Building in the Peace-Building Process; G.Son Sacred Excess; R.Subramaniam Definitions and Injuries of Violence; M.Turshen Domestic Photography and the Militarization of American Life; L.Wexler Beyond 'Us' and 'Them'; K.Whitlock