School Violence: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues)
by Laura L Finley
'Confusing Islam with violence is now commonplace. No book to my knowledge has thus far tackled this problem head on. In fact, on the contrary, many students of Islam as well as media commentators have succumbed to treating Islam uncritically, i.e. as a 'label' ' for violence, practically and theoretically. Here lies the significance of A Divine Duty: it bucks this trend coherently, convincingly, and clearly. At a moment when many self-anointed experts are flooding the world's libraries with boo...
Interpreting Social Violence in French Culture
In January 1847, a grain convoy passed through BuzanAais, an obscure village in a remote region of central France that was suffering from hunger, high prices, and widespread unemployment. Villagers intercepted the shipment, invaded granaries and mills, and forced resale of the grain at a just price set by the people. What started as a classic subsistence movement, however, triggered two days of rioting and class hostility punctuated by uncommon property damage and death. Disorder soon spread thr...
Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew...
Spontaneous or Premiditated? Post-Election Violence in Kenya
by Godwin R. Murunga
This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form chil...
Firearm Violence, 1993-2011
by U S Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and Bureau of Justice Statistics
Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC. Unlike other lines of evidence - weapons, fortifications, and imagery - the human skeleton preserves the actual marks of past violent encounters. The papers in this volume are written by the experts undertaking the archaeological analysis, and present evidence from...
She doesn't want this baby.She can't look after this baby.She will never be able to love this baby.Little Abby's life begins badly, then just gets worse.Now foster mum Louise and her family must help her deal with the truth of her past to give her the chance of a future.Abby's Story is the latest book in the series THROWN AWAY CHILDREN by author and foster mum Louise Allen.
A History of Riots is the result of a conference held by the London Socialist Historians Group in early 2012, designed to look again at the historical aspects of riots in the wake of the August 2011 riots in the UK.Many historians had thought that riots were a method of protest and revolt which had given way to more organised forms of expression, from trade unions to political parties, during the course of the nineteenth century. Events have proven this idea to be incorrect. Riots still take pla...
Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This violence has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic social supports and networks of trust. This vol...
Heidegger, Zizek and Revolution (Perspectives of Critical Theory and Education, #1)
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Violence in a Time of Liberation
by Professor Donald L Donham and Santu Mofokeng
Achieving Peace in Northern Mali
by Stephanie Pezard and Michael Shurkin