ISBN:
9781403981561
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (239 pages)
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DDC:
303.60820000000001
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. Activists and academics consider questions such as; are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to effectively respond to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both 'religion' and 'secularism' in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer inclusive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminists Responding to Violence: Theories, Vocabularies, and Strategies -- PART I: TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT -- 1 Feminism in the Time of Violence -- 2 The Wrong Victims: Terrorism, Trauma, and Symbolic Violence -- 3 Definitions and Injuries of Violence -- 4 Filling the Sight by Force: A Meditation on the Violence of the Vernacular -- 5 Rethinking Responses to Violence, Rethinking the Safety of "Home -- 6 Violence of Protection -- 7 Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion? -- PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE U.S. POLITICAL REGIME -- 8 Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, Before and After 9/11 -- 9 The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush's "Preemptive" War Strategy -- 10 The Erosion of Democracy in Advancing the Bush Administration's Iraq Agenda: Government Lies and Misinformation and Media Complicity -- PART III: CONTEXTS AND LOCATIONS OF VIOLENCE -- 11 Naming Enmity: The Case of Israel/Palestine -- 12 Toward a Cherokee Theory of Violence -- 13 Dangerous Crossings: Violence at the Borders -- 14 Domestic Terror -- 15 Testifying to Violence: Gujarat as a State of Exception -- 16 Challenging What We Mean by Conflict Prevention: The Experience of East Timor -- PART IV: ANTIVIOLENCE ETHICS AND STRATEGIES: COALITIONS, THEATRES, INTERDEPENDENCIES -- 17 Sisterhood after Terrorism: Filipino Ecumenical Women and the U.S. Wars -- 18 The Female Body as Site of Attack: Will the "Real" Muslim Woman's Body Please Reveal Itself? -- 19 Responses to Violence: Healing vs. Punishment -- 20 Our Enemies, Ourselves: Why Antiviolence Movements Must Replace the Dualism of "Us and Them" with an Ethic of Interdependence -- Recommended Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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