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To die in Mexico: dispatches from inside the drug war

by Gibler, John

fromOpen Media book

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Since President Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexicans have been murdered. Drug money is now Mexico's single largest source of income. Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under a…

Philosophy and the return of violence: studies from this widening gyre

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Emerging across specters of genocide, racism, oppression, terror, poverty, or war, the threat of violence is not only concrete and urgent, but all too often throws the work of critical reflection into vulnerable paralysis. With essays by some of today's finest scholars, these pa…

Men, masculinities and violence: an ethnographic study

by Ellis, Anthony

fromROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN CRIME AND SOCIETY

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"Why do some men use physical violence against others? How do some men come to value physical violence as a resource? Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted with men involved in serious violence and crime over a period of two years in the North of England, Anthony E…

Violence: six sideways reflections

by Žižek, Slavoj

fromBig Ideas/Small Books

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"Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence…

Violence: six sideways reflections

by Žižek, Slavoj

fromBig Ideas/Small Books

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"Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence…

Violence and the state in Languedoc, 1250-1400

by Firnhaber-Baker, Justine

fromCambridge studies in medieval life and thought

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"Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal admini…

Global health in times of violence

by Whiteford, Linda M., Rylko-Bauer, Barbara, Farmer, Paul, School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)

fromSchool for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

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What are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence? In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health, psychosocial well-being, and health care delivery.

Becoming unbecoming

by Una

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Becoming Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a society in which male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders…