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Free Download Panagiotis Delis, "Notions of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing on the Eve of the First World War: The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 "
English | ISBN: 1636672264 | 2023 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB

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Free Download Against Police Violence By Angela Davis, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, et al.
2020 | 110 Pages | ISBN: 0000000779 | EPUB | 4 MB
"The ideas that can and will sustain our movement for total freedom and dignity of the people cannot be imprisoned, for they are to be found in the people, all the people, wherever they are. As long as the people live by the ideas of freedom and dignity, there will be no prison that can hold our movement down." ―Huey P. NewtonDefund the Police. Abolish Prisons. Refuse State Repression.

Free Download W. James Potter, "The 11 Myths of Media Violence"
English | ISBN: 0761927344 | 2002 | 288 pages | PDF | 1521 KB
The 11 Myths of Media Violenceclearly explains why media violence has not only been allowed but encouraged to escalate. Esteemed author W. James Potter challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between media and violence. He argues that these assumptions are the primary barriers preventing us from confronting the issue of violence in films, TV, and video games.

Free Download Katerina Standish, "Cultural Violence in the Classroom: Peace, Conflict and Education in Israel "
English | ISBN: 1443880183 | 2015 | 190 pages | PDF | 691 KB
In identity-based conflicts, what a person learns can become whom a person learns to hate. This book explores the unique position occupied by educators during protracted ethnic conflict. As transmitters of social authority, educators occupy a position in society capable of supporting repressive constructs or challenging social inequalities. Educators who are seen to legitimize the social order may be seen as symbolic markers of the dominant group, while educators who challenge the social order can be perceived as upstarts or threats that seek to subvert social authority. By surveying the perceptions, perspectives, experiences and opinions of Israeli tertiary teachers, this book explores the positionality of educators as agents who wield both an instrument for oppression and a tool for liberation (Alzaroo and Hunt 2003, 165). Peace education is a platform to achieve a global culture of peace by recognizing and delegitimizing violence. Using future visioning, this book considers that a primary obstruction to achieving peace is the ability to conceive of peace and asks three questions: do university educators challenge conflict narratives in the classroom? What obstacles exist to prevent educating for peace in Israel? How do educators imagine the future?

Free Download Daniel Cojocaru, "Violence and Dystopia: Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary Western Dystopian Narratives "
English | ISBN: 1443876135 | 2015 | 335 pages | PDF | 1348 KB
Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).

Free Download Breaking Apart Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
by Shondrah Tarrezz Nash, Lisa Michele Shannon
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032010630 | 225 Pages | True PDF/epub | 13.6 MB

Free Download Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
English | 2024 | ISBN: 131651188X | 365 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Born in Blood investigates one of history’s most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. It offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Indians, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

Free Download Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia: Across Time and Space By Katharine McGregor, Ana Dragojlovic, Hannah Loney
2020 | 210 Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: 2019055737 | PDF | 13 MB
This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to chart how various forms of violence – domestic, military, legal and political – are not separate instances of violence, but rather embedded in structural inequalities brought about by colonialism, occupation and state violence. The book explores both case studies of individuals and of groups to examine experiences of violence within the context of gender and structures of power　in modern Indonesian　history and Indonesia-related diasporas. It argues that gendered violence is particularly important to consider in this region because of its complex history of armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the diversity of people that have been affected by violence, as well as the complexity of the religious and cultural communities involved. The book focuses in particular on textual narratives of violence, visualisations of violence, commemorations of violence and the politics of care.

Free Download Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts
by Constanza López Baquero
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032442581 | 182 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB

Free Download The Violence of Participation By Markus Miessen
2007 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1933128348 | PDF | 27 MB
The future of the State depends, at least in Europe, on the realization that the State of the 20th Century (the National State embodying internal and external sovereignty) does no longer have any future.Erhard Eppler, Auslaufmodell Staat? (2005)Is Europe a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests? As a political space, Europe is as conflictual as its debated constitution. It is a construct that must be continuously negotiated, and its longing for an architecture of strategic encounters parallels an increasing economical power of the private sector, while the sovereignty of European nation states attenuate.This book, edited by London-based architect and author Markus Miessen, marks an extension of the discursive space he has produced as contribution to the 2007 Lyon Biennial. He has pulled together a heterogeneous group of interlocutors to lead conversations on alternative notions of participation, the inconsistence between democratic concepts, and what it means to live in Europe today. ContributorsShumon Basar, Ute Meta Bauer, Celine Condorelli, Erhard Eppler, Nikolaus Hirsch, Rem Koolhaas, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ingo Niermann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ralf Pflugfelder, Karl Schlögel, Eyal Weizman, Tirdad Zolghadr, et al.