Tag: Violence

Free Download Robbie Davis-Floyd, "Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities: Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized? "
English | ISBN: 180073834X | 2023 | 370 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world.

Free Download Liam O’Dowd, Martina McKnight, "Religion, Violence and Cities"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138379514 | EPUB | pages: 138 | 1.3 mb
In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world. Originating in a five year research project , Conflict in Cities and the Contested State, concerned with Belfast, Jerusalem and other ethno-nationally divided cities, this volume widens the geographical focus to include diverse cities from the Balkans, the Middle East, Nigeria and Japan. In addressing the understudied triangular relationships between religion, violence and cities, contributors stress the multiple forms taken by religion and violence while challenging the compartmentalisation of two highly topical debates – links between religion and violence on the one hand, and the proliferation of violent urban conflicts on the other hand. Their research demonstrates why cities have become so important in conflicts driven by state-building, fundamentalism, religious nationalism, and ethno-religious division and illuminates the conditions under which urban environments can fuel violent conflicts while simultaneously providing opportunities for managing or transforming them.

Free Download The Bullet’s Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia By William Pfaff
2008 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0684809079 | PDF | 24 MB
A history of the origins of fascism, Nazism, and communism focuses on the specific roles of six twentieth-century figures including T. E. Lawrence, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ernst Junger, Willy Munzenber, Andre Malraux, and Arthur Koestler. By the author of Barbarian Sentiments: America in the New Century. 20,000 first printing.

Free Download Michael Stanislawski, "A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History"
English | ISBN: 069112843X | 2007 | 160 pages | PDF | 11 MB
How could a Jew kill a Jew for religious and political reasons? Many people asked this question after an Orthodox Jew assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itshak Rabin in 1995. But historian Michael Stanislawski couldn’t forget it, and he decided to find out everything he could about an obscure and much earlier event that was uncannily similar to Rabin’s murder: the 1848 killing-by an Orthodox Jew-of the Reform rabbi of Lemberg (now L’viv, Ukraine). Eventually, Stanislawski concluded that this was the first murder of a Jewish leader by a Jew since antiquity, a prelude to twentieth-century assassinations of Jews by Jews, and a turning point in Jewish history. Based on records unavailable for decades,

Free Download Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China By Barend ter Haar
2019 | 75 Pages | ISBN: 1108706231 | PDF | 2 MB
The basis of Chinese religious culture, and with that many aspects of daily life, was the threat and fear of demonic attacks. These were inherently violent and could only be counteracted by violence as well – even if this reactive violence was masked by euphemisms such as execution, expulsion, exorcisms and so on. At the same time, violence was a crucial dimension of the maintenance of norms and values, for instance in sworn agreements or in beliefs about underworld punishment. Violence was also an essential aspect of expressing respect through sacrificial gifts of meat (and in an earlier stage of Chinese culture also human flesh) and through a culture of auto-mutilation and ritual suicide. At the same time, conventional indigenous terms for violence such as bao 暴 were not used for most of these practices since they were not experienced as such, but rather justified as positive uses of physical force.

Free Download Michael Loadenthal, "The politics of attack: Communiqués and insurrectionary violence "
English | ISBN: 1526114453 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 1533 KB
This story explores the history, ideas, and strategies of insurrectionary anarchism. This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiqués, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion.

Free Download Loren Kleinman, "The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence: Wounded"
English | ISBN: 1032436239 | 2023 | 94 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The toll of America’s gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost―more than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive.―Shot and Forgotten, The Trace

Free Download Elliott B. Weininger, "Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins"
English | ISBN: 1138614289 | 2018 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced, and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought, and of microsociology more generally.

Free Download Paul Middleton, "The Violence of the Lamb: Martyrs as Agents of Divine Judgement in the Book of Revelation "
English | ISBN: 0567257126 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The act of martyrdom in the worldview of the Apocalypse has been considered to be an exemplification of non-violent resistance. Paul Middleton argues here, however, that it is in fact a representation of direct participation by Christians, through their martyrdom, in divine violence against those the author of Revelation portrays as God’s enemies. Middleton shows that acceptance of martyrdom is to grasp the invitation to participate in the Revelation’s divine violence. Martyrs follow the model laid down by the Lamb, who was not only slain, but resurrected, glorified, and who executes judgement.

Free Download Matt Thornton, "The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World"
English | ISBN: 1634312309 | 2023 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1349 KB
In today’s modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us: at once demonized and glamorized, but almost always deeply misunderstood. Our hard-earned and hard-wired instincts-our evolved and trained ability to survive and overcome violent encounters-have been compromised. Yet, as even a cursory look at news headlines or a police blotter will reveal, the threat of violent crime is ever-present, and those we’ve entrusted to protect us cannot always be relied upon.