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The Culture of Violence

Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226037189
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Violence written by Francis Barker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power. The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.

Maximum Security

Author : John Devine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226143872
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Maximum Security written by John Devine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escalations in student violence continue throughout the nation, but inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and safety are the common administrative response. Essential educational programs are routinely slashed from school budgets, even as the number of guards, cameras, and metal detectors continues to multiply. Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, Maximum Security demonstrates that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioral responsibilities. Exploring the culture of violence from within, John Devine argues that the security system, with its uniformed officers and invasive high-tech surveillance, has assumed presumptive authority over students' bodies and behavior, negating the traditional roles of teachers as guardians and agents of moral instruction. The teacher is reduced to an information bureaucrat, a purveyor of technical knowledge, while the student's physical well-being and ethical actions are left to the suspect scrutiny of electronic devices and security specialists with no pedagogical mission, training, or interest. The result is not a security system at all, but an insidious institutional disengagement from the caring supervision of the student body. With uncompromising honesty, Devine provides a powerful portrayal of an educational system in crisis and bold new insight into the malignant culture of school violence.

Confronting a Culture of Violence

Author : United States Catholic Conference
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555860288
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Confronting a Culture of Violence written by United States Catholic Conference and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the need for a moral revolution and a renewed ethic of justice, responsibility, and community. Recognizes impressive examples in dioceses, parishes, and schools across the country.

Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities

Author : Fiona Greenland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135126706X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities written by Fiona Greenland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading sociologists and anthropologists to break new ground in the study of cultural violence. First sketched in Raphael Lemkin’s seminal writings on genocide, and later systematically defined by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung, the concept of cultural violence seeks to explain why and how language, symbols, rituals, practices, and objects are so frequently in the crosshairs of socio-political change. Recent conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia, along with renewed public interest in the repertoire of violence applied to the control and erasure of indigenous populations, highlights the gaps in our understanding of why cultural violence occurs, what it consists of, and how it relates to other forms of collective violence.

Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence

Author : Nancy E. Dowd
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412913690
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence written by Nancy E. Dowd and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter contains recommendations for legislators, policy makers, researchers, and families. This book should be on the desk, and minds, of legislators, attorneys, social workers and other mental health professionals who encounter and wish to ameliorate the effects of violence in the lives of their young constituents, clients, and patients." -JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIESQuestions relating to violence and children surround us in the media: should V-chips be placed in every television set? How can we prevent another Columbine school shooting from occurring? How should pornography on the internet be regulated? The Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence addresses these questions and more, providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of childhood violence that considers children as both consumers and perpetrators of violence, as well as victims of it. The Handbook offers much-needed empirical evidence that will help inform debate about these important policy decisions. Moreover, it is the first single volume to consider situations when children are responsible for violence, rather than focusing exclusively on occasions when they are victimized. Providing the first comprehensive overview of current research in the field, the editors have brought together the work of a group of prominent scholars whose work is united by a common concern for the impact of violence on the lives of children. The Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence is poised to become the ultimate resource and reference work on children and violence for researchers, teachers, and students of psychology, human development and family studies, law, communications, education, sociology, and political science/ public policy. It will also appeal to policymakers, media professionals, and special interest groups concerned with reducing violence in children's lives. Law firms specializing in family law, as well as think tanks, will also be interested in the Handbook.

Peace, Culture, and Violence

Author : Fuat Gursozlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436191X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Peace, Culture, and Violence written by Fuat Gursozlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, Culture, and Violence is a collection of essays that examine the forms of violence that permeate everyday life and explore sources of non-violence by considering topics such as thug culture, language, hegemony, police violence, war, terrorism, gender, and anti-Semitism.

Violence in Popular Culture

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Popular Culture written by Laura L. Finley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive resource, this book reviews current and historical examples of violence in film, television, radio, music, music videos, video games, and novels. Despite decades of attention and various attempts to enact legislation that limits violence in American popular culture, it remains ubiquitous across films, television, radio, music, music videos, video games, and popular fiction. Studies have shown that programs marketed to children are often remarkably violent and that viewing or otherwise consuming such violence has numerous negative effects on children's psychological health. This book sheds light on the scholarship related to violence in popular culture and compares historical and current examples, analyzing popular shows such as Game of Thrones, video games such as Mortal Kombat, young adult fiction including the trilogy The Hunger Games, and more. Not only does Violence in American Popular Culture provide a comprehensive review of the research about the effects of violence in media, but it also offers detailed assessments of violent content in various expressions of popular culture. In addition, it invites readers to compare violence in American popular culture with that globally via entries on violence in popular culture outside the United States. An appendix of additional resources and primary sources gives readers further tools for deepening their understanding of this complex and controversial issue.

Violence in China

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438411030
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Violence in China written by Jonathan N. Lipman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-04-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity. The book explores motivations for violence from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Historically, the authors cover bloody religious rebellions in premodern times, the depiction of violence in traditional popular novels, ethnic strife between Muslims and Han Chinese in the Northwest, and feuding local communities in the Southeast. Modern China is depicted by analyses of rural and urban violence in Mao's Cultural Revolution and an examination of continuing domestic violence. This depiction of the cultural themes and motivations for violence allow lessons drawn from specific contexts to be applied to the nature of Chinese culture in general.

Shakespeare's Culture of Violence

Author : D. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379443
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Culture of Violence written by D. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-12-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Derek Cohen studies the relationship of Shakespearean drama to the Western culture of violence. He argues that violence is an inherent feature and form of patriarchy and that its production and control is one of the dominant motives of the political system. Shakespeare's plays supply examples of the way in which the patriarchy of his plays - and hence, perhaps, of modern Western culture - absorbs, naturalizes, and legitimizes violence in its attempts to maintain political control over its subjects.

Overturning the Culture of Violence

Author : Penny Hess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Overturning the Culture of Violence written by Penny Hess and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction by Omali Yeshitela cites his first meeting with Hess at a St. Petersburg meeting and the circumstances of their work together." -- Descriptions from Bolerium Books, bookseller.

Defaced

Author : Valentin Groebner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Defaced written by Valentin Groebner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror--formless, hideous, defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual culture of violence in medieval and Renaissance Europe and shows how contemporary visual culture has been shaped by late medieval images and narratives of violence. For late medieval audiences, as with modern media consumers, horror lies less in the "indescribable" and "alien" than in the familiar and commonplace. From the fourteenth century onward, pictorial representations became increasingly violent, whether in depictions of the Passion, or in vivid and precise images of torture, execution, and war. But not every spectator witnessed the same thing when confronted with terrifying images of a crucified man, misshapen faces, allegedly bloodthirsty conspirators on nocturnal streets, or barbarian fiends on distant battlefields. The profusion of violent imagery provoked a question: how to distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and reversed the social order from the proper, "just," and sanctioned use of force? Groebner constructs a persuasive answer to this question by investigating how uncannily familiar medieval dystopias were constructed and deconstructed. Showing how extreme violence threatens to disorient, and how the effect of horror resides in the depiction of minute details, Groebner offers an original model for understanding how descriptions of atrocities and of outrageous cruelty depended, in medieval times, on the variation of familiar narrative motifs.

Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427200
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture written by Ronald Bogue and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses two major issues of contemporary culture: the problem of violence in relation to notions of "difference" and power; and the role of mediation in making possible non-conflictive play of cultural differences.

Culture Of Honor

Author : Richard E Nisbett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980779
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Culture Of Honor written by Richard E Nisbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a singular cause of male violence—the perpetrator's sense of threat to one of his most valued possessions, namely, his reputation for strength and toughness. The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor.

The Culture of Prison Violence

Author : James Michael Byrne
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Prison Violence written by James Michael Byrne and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection examine recent research on the causes, prevention and control of prison violence. Experts discuss new work being done on inmate, staff, and management culture, the links between prison and community culture and violence, and identify best practices and ‘what works’ in reducing violence and changing offender behaviour.

Violence and Culture

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Culture written by Jack David Eller and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Eller's book brings together widest range of material on violence as a modern and international cultural problem. It combines comprehensive theoretical discussion from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, and biology, with rich empirical description and analysis in a global approach. Violence, if not more prevalent, is attracting more attention in academic arenas as well as the public arena. It has become a central feature of the 21st century. Because understanding violence requires comparisons to nonviolence, Eller examines and contrasts a myriad of violent and nonviolent societies--Publisher's description.

Violence, Culture And Censure

Author : Professor Colin Sumner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113574145X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Violence, Culture And Censure written by Professor Colin Sumner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society.

Cultures of Violence

Author : S. Carroll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591825
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Violence written by S. Carroll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.