Sites of Violence
Title | Sites of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Wenona Giles |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2004-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520237919 |
In this book, militarization, nationalism, and globalization are scrutinized at sites of violent conflict from a range of feminist pespectives.
Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain
Title | Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Míguez Macho |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350199214 |
In this sophisticated study, Antonio Míguez Macho and his team of expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an uncomfortable relationship with its own past, this book reveals how sites of violence also became sites of forgetting. Centred around places of violence such as concentration camps and military courts where prisoners endured horrific forced labour and were sentenced to death, this book looks at how and why the history of these sites were obscured. Issues addressed include: how Guernica came to represent Francoist front-line brutality and so concealed violence behind the lines; the need to preserve drawings made by concentration camp inmates that record a history the regime hoped to silence; the contests over plaques and monuments erected to honour victims; and the ways forging a historical record through human rights cases helps shape a new collective memory. Shining a spotlight on these important topics for the first time, this book provides a new perspective on one of the major issues of 20th-century Spanish history: the history and memory of Francoist violence. As such, Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain is an invaluable resource for all scholars of modern Spain, memory culture, and public history.
State Violence and the Execution of Law
Title | State Violence and the Execution of Law PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Pugliese |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0415529743 |
State Violence and the Execution of Law examines how law plays a fundamental role in enabling state violence and, specifically, torture, secret imprisonment, and killing-at-a-distance.
A Site of Struggle
Title | A Site of Struggle PDF eBook |
Author | Sampada Aranke |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691209278 |
Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.
Indigenous Women and Violence
Title | Indigenous Women and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Stephen |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2021-03-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816539456 |
Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These structures—and the forms of violence inherent to them—are driving criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women, leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj
Anatomy of Violence
Title | Anatomy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Belachew Gebrewold |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1409499219 |
Violence connects people – whether directly or indirectly financing violence or by fighting the war against terror. Violent incidents are often deeply rooted in structures and systems. With a focus on Africa, this study examines three structurally interdependent conflict systems to highlight the complexities of transboundary and transregional conflict systems. The systemic approach to studying violence is highly suitable for courses on security, peace and conflict, political sociology and African politics. You will come away from the book with a better understanding of the underlying currents of violent conflicts and thus a clearer idea of how they might be handled.
Ending Gender-Based Violence
Title | Ending Gender-Based Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah E. Britton |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2020-04-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0252051971 |
South African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence. Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions—with a focus on arrests and prosecutions—fails to address the complexities of the problem and looks at how changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workers. Clear-eyed and revealing, Ending Gender-Based Violence offers needed tools for breaking cycles of brutality and inequality around the world.