Much has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national h…
In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer sheds light on the militarys role in Guatemala through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and revealing of the character of the oppressors. High-ranking officers explain in their own words the…
In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer sheds light on the militarys role in Guatemala through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and revealing of the character of the oppressors. High-ranking officers explain in their own words the…
Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say, war between states in whic…
"On a gusty March day in 1016, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, the most powerful lord in northern England, arrived at a place called Wiheal, probably near Tadcaster in Yorkshire. Uhtred had come with forty men to submit formally of King Canute, an act that completed the Danish subju…
"On a gusty March day in 1016, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, the most powerful lord in northern England, arrived at a place called Wiheal, probably near Tadcaster in Yorkshire. Uhtred had come with forty men to submit formally of King Canute, an act that completed the Danish subju…
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles', Ulster's once dominant unionists are an increasingly alienated people. In this timely assessment of the prospects for peace, Steve Bruce examines the embittered world-view of two key sections of Ulster unionism:…
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles', Ulster's once dominant unionists are an increasingly alienated people. In this timely assessment of the prospects for peace, Steve Bruce examines the embittered world-view of two key sections of Ulster unionism:…
The politicization of ontology -- Foundational violence -- Dangerous animals -- The politics of gendered violence -- Political life -- The management of state violence -- The political ontology of neoliberalism -- Violence and neoliberal governmentality -- Terror and political s…
Pfaff discusses writers, artists, intellectual soldiers, and religious revolutionaries (including : T.E. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Ernst Jünger -- Willi Münzenberg -- André Malraux -- Arthur Koestler -- Vladimir Peniakoff -- Benito Mussolini -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti…
Pfaff discusses writers, artists, intellectual soldiers, and religious revolutionaries (including : T.E. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Ernst Jünger -- Willi Münzenberg -- André Malraux -- Arthur Koestler -- Vladimir Peniakoff -- Benito Mussolini -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti…
"Although recent events are testing its durability, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been hailed as a triumph of Anglo-Irish diplomacy. But why did it take thirty years of intense conflict to reach an understanding of the problem before a solution could be implemented?" "In…
"Although recent events are testing its durability, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been hailed as a triumph of Anglo-Irish diplomacy. But why did it take thirty years of intense conflict to reach an understanding of the problem before a solution could be implemented?" "In…
Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution.
An examination of the controversial School of the Americas looks at its training program and argues that it has institutionalized state-sponsored violence that has wrought havoc in Latin America. "Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is…