understanding cruelty in a way that conventional peace and conflict studies cannot. Even the genre of ethnographically informed conflict studies, however, struggles with notions of perpetration, volition, and culpability. More to the point, conflict studies
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The Social Life of Contentious Concepts
Ronald S. Stade
a village or remote province. They belong to a genre that straddles several disciplinary boundaries—conceptual history, political anthropology, cultural sociology, peace and conflict studies, international relations, and so on—and is consigned to a
The Power of Silence
Sonic Experiences of Police Operations and Occupations in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
Sterre Gilsing
refer to sex. Especially interesting (and wry for the artists from the favela who created the genre) is, when the music is detached from the favela environment, the consequences are different. João, a human rights activist and lawyer, questions the
Sam Jackson, Áron Bakos, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, and Matti Weisdorf
emotions inspired by Elizabeth Povinelli (2001 ; 2006 ; 2011 ) and her choice of genre sometimes works against her ambitions. Wool does what she does brilliantly, but the reader often finds herself at a strange remove from what should be so intimate, as
The Social Life of Fighting Words
The Case of Political Correctness
Ronald S. Stade
Red Book. As mentioned, the official title of the Little Red Book was Quotations from Chairman Mao , in Pinyin, Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù . The last word in the title refers to the traditional Chinese genre of yǔlù , the paradigm of which is the Analects , a
Between Labor Migration and Forced Displacement
Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Transnational Space
Jesper Bjarnesen
Migration and Forced Displacement Despite the different interests of refugee studies and studies of labor migration, scholars of both genres have argued for their convergence on important points—for example, regarding the way in which migrant aspirations
Liberation Autochthony
Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
examples, see Nujoma (2001) ; SWAPO (1981) . For a more detailed account of this genre, see Metsola (2015: 191–195 ). 4 See articles in the following newspapers: The Namibian , 10, 21 April, 9, 17 May 1995, 7 May, 26 June, 29 September, 24, 28, 31
Abhishek Choudhary, Rhys Machold, Ricardo Cardoso, Andreas Hackl, Martha Lagace, and Carly Machado
, chapter-length studies of two different topics in space and time. (Per Mikhail Bakhtin, a chronotope encapsulates how time and space are represented in different genres of narration: in an epic as distinct from a comedy, for example.) Ferme's first
Emergent Police States
Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio's Favelas to Bolsonaro
Tomas Salem and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
help me catch those guys. Among officers, then, funk parties and funk music, especially the genre of proibidão (lit. “forbidden”), expressed the “culture of trafficking” that they thought to be common among favela residents (see Muniz and
Recapturing the Lost
Digitalized Memories of the Rhodesian Bush War
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
the Institution: The Transformation of a Narrative Genre .” Nordicom Review 33 ( 2 ): 17 – 26 . doi:10.2478/nor-2013–0011 . 10.2478/nor-2013-0011 Kirkegaard , Ane Marie Ørbø . 2004 , “ A Matter of Difference? Family Planning and Gendered