Violence A Reader

Name: Violence A Reader
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ISBN: 9780814799000

ISBN-10: 0814799000

ISBN-13: 9780814799000

Edition: 2002

Authors: Catherine Besteman

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This multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, anti-state violence and criminal violence such as armed robbery.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 9.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Personal Acknowledgements


Notes on the Contributors


Introduction


Politics as a Vocation



Reflections on Violence



War Making and State Making as Organized Crime



The Impact and Function of Terror



The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust



The Causes of Terrorism



Playing the Game of Love: Passion and Martyrdom Among Khalistani Sikhs



A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide



Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence



Surfacing Gender: Reconceptualizing Crimes Against Women in Time of War



Culture of Terror - Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture



Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence



Terror Warfare and the Medicine of Peace



Conclusion: Political Violence and the Contemporary World


Index