Tag: Violence

Free Download John Corrigan, "The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America"
English | ISBN: 0226827631 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 1035 KB
A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.

Free Download Laura Wexler, "Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism"
English | 2000 | pages: 383 | ISBN: 0807825700, 0807848832 | PDF | 51,4 mb
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "domestic vision" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of turn-of-the-century America. These women photographers, white and middle class, constructed images of war disguised as peace through a mechanism Wexler calls the "averted eye," which had its origins in the private domain of family photography.

Free Download Maggie McKinley, "Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75"
English | ISBN: 1628924810 | 2015 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth.

Free Download Kimberly Theidon, "Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin"
English | ISBN: 1478015772 | 2022 | 128 pages | PDF | 1045 KB
In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy, and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account the impact of violence on individual people as well as on more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable abortions.

Free Download John Lechte, "Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard"
English | ISBN: 1399519778 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 1402 KB
What is violence – what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille, Agamben and Girard – thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the image, a connection that shows what it means to be a victim.

Free Download Grace Tjandra Leksana, "Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering "
English | ISBN: 9463723560 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state’s repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in intricate social relations and local context where the violence occurred. What people remember, forget, or silenced is part of the continuous negotiation to claim one’s right, to relate to the state, and to be Indonesian citizen. This book redefines the politics of memory – that it does not necessarily appear in formal arenas, but actually lies in the intricate web of local dynamics, often involving transactional and clientelistic practices.

Free Download Megan Cassidy-Welch, "Crusades and Violence "
English | ISBN: 164189475X | 2023 | 104 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How was violence understood and justified during the time of the crusades? This book argues that although just/holy war theory has long provided the framework for explaining crusading violence, cultural history gives us deeper insights into the meaning and conduct of medieval crusading warfare. Using a range of sources including histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this book provides fresh insights into medieval violence and the history of the crusades. It shows how violence was debated, defined, worried about, celebrated, and condemned, and that the boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate conduct in crusading warfare were constantly and consciously tested.

Free Download Debra Meyers, "Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide"
English | ISBN: 1032334959 | 2023 | 214 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide is a collection of essays from survivors, scholars, activists, spiritual leaders, and social justice practitioners that offers numerous intersectional and culturally competent options for women, men, and non-binary conforming adults to create their own safe healing conditions and establish pathways for recovery. These chapters provide a wide range of survival stories that raise awareness of the issues involved in healing after sexual assault and also provide inspiration for reforming negative societal issues and patterns. In a classroom setting, these chapters deliver both the culturally grounded knowledge and the skillsets necessary for recovery.

Free Download Eveline Bouwers, "Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World "
English | ISBN: 0367650975 | 2023 | 374 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world – revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism.

Free Download Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices By Jennifer R. Wies (editor), Hillary J. Haldane (editor)
2015 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 1498509037 | PDF | 10 MB
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, human services, and health fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and responses can better inform a collaborative global response to the problem of gender-based violence. With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, the volume illustrates the various ways scholars, practitioners, frontline workers, and policy makers can work together to end violence in their local communities. The chapters in this volume provide ample evidence that top-down responses to violence have been inadequate, and that solutions are available when the local historical, political, and social context is taken into consideration. Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence.