In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the concept of circulation in the field of anthropology. This article aims at elaborating the idea of circulation, namely, in the context of media anthropology. We illuminate the workings of circulation by illustrating how violent media images travel on YouTube and how video clips contribute to the formation and reformation of globalised social imaginaries of violence. Special attention is given to the circulations of school shooting videos on YouTube. Through fieldwork on YouTube videos associated with the Columbine, Virginia Tech, Jokela and Kauhajoki massacres, the article draws on George Bataille's ideas on symbolic violence to claim that the school shootings as visual media spectacles of violence, death and terror can be seen as paradigmatic examples of deadly events that have a potential to stimulate social imaginaries of horror and anxiety through the cultural logic of circulation in the era of globalisation.
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Imagining globalised fears
School shooting videos and circulation of violence on YouTube
Johanna Sumiala and Minttu Tikka
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 254–267 (13 total)
Policing the Post-Colonial Order
Surveillance and the African Immigrant Community in France, 1960-1979
Gillian Glaes
By the early 1960s, an increasing number of Africans migrated to France from their former colonies in West Africa. Most were men hoping to gain employment in several different industries. Their settlement in Paris and other cities signaled the start of "post-colonial" African immigration to France. While scholars have analyzed several facets of this migration, they often overlook the ways in which France's role as a colonial power in West Africa impacted the reception of these immigrants after 1960, where surveillance played a critical role. Colonial regimes policed and monitored the activities of indigenous populations and anyone else they deemed problematic. The desire to understand newly arriving immigrant groups and suspicion of foreign-born populations intersected with the state's capacity to monitor certain groups in order to regulate and control them. While not physically violent, these surveillance practices reflected the role that symbolic violence played in the French government's approach to this post-colonial immigrant population.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2010
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- Research Article
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- 108–126 (19 total)
School-Imposed Labeling and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Symbolic Violence on the Bodies of Boys of Color in One “No Excuses” Charter School
L. Trenton S. Marsh
Historical, socially constructed notions of Black and Latino masculinity, mis/labeled behavior, punitive policies (e.g., suspension) and practices (e.g., school-imposed labeling) lead to disproportionate rates of dropout in urban US schools, continued involvement in the criminal legal system, and a limited participation in society. This article argues that school-imposed labeling—affixing a category or descriptor on a student to signal a shorthand message to others about a student’s academic ability and behavior—is symbolically violent (Bourdieu). By examining unofficial labels, punitive structures, and teacher perceptions of labeled students, I explored school-imposed labeling as a form of “normalized” practice that impacts Black and Latino males who attend an urban charter school with a “no excuses” orientation.
In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 131–148 (17 total)
L'Armée, la haute function publique et le massacre de Thiaroye en 1944 au Sénégal
Bureaucratie impériale et petits meurtres entre amis
Martin Mourre
Abstract
This article focuses on the Thiaroye massacre on 1 December 1944. Senegalese tirailleurs returning from Europe were killed by their officers simply for claiming the money they were owed. In this article I do not focus on the course of events, nor even on their political consequences, but rather on the way the events were explained by French authorities just after the tragedy. I take as my subject the biographies of several figures from the French state who were involved in the narration of these events. I try to see how these men were socialised in similar spaces. I am more specifically interested in the methods used by these administrations to write about the massacre. This article helps to better understand the French imperial state and the violence in the colonies and the link between military violence and political violence
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 107–127 (21 total)
“I Hope Nobody Feels Harassed”
Teacher Complicity in Gender Inequality in a Middle School
Susan McCullough
Gender Dominance and Symbolic Violence Gender Dominance To begin with, it is important to clarify what I mean by gender dominance. I argue that at my research site, Fort Defiance Middle School (FDMS), 1 boys and girls were performing
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 55–70 (16 total)
Introduction
Ethnographic Engagement with Bureaucratic Violence
Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke
transnational legal mechanisms, safe housing and environments, and other basic rights and needs. As bureaucratic infrastructures socially control a populace and regulate life itself, states and their bureaucrats seed symbolic violence—an internalization of
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 94–98 (5 total)
Book Reviews
Adriane Costa Da Silva, Heike Drotbohm, Leah Eades, Alessandra Gribaldo, and Emre Keser
emerge, allowing clinic staff to engage in ‘unprecedented individual freedom and moral negotiations but also conflicts and new forms of symbolic violence’ (p. 180). Maffi provides detailed accounts of the doubts and dilemmas faced by healthcare workers
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 179–187 (9 total)
“For Girls to Feel Safe”
Community Engineering for Sexual Assault Prevention
Day Greenberg and Angela Calabrese Barton
’s (2016) attunement to networks of symbolic violence structuring women’s educational engagement. We explore how girls navigate juxtapositions of real and symbolic violence in STEM and in girlhood through their technological design work. Intersectionality
Disparity among Indonesian Sociology of Education Textbooks
Zulkifli
the role of the textbook in the formation of the Indonesian state; 6 symbolic violence in electronic textbooks; 7 multicultural values in history textbooks; 8 civic education textbook reform; 9 exclusivism and radicalism in (Islamic) religious
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–104 (19 total)
Degrees of Permeability
Confinement, Power and Resistance in Freetown's Central Prison
Luisa T. Schneider
locked away and immobilized without being given any tasks to ‘protect’ the rest of society from an unjustified fear of them. Judith Butler (2004) shows how, next to literal violence, there is a vast arena of symbolic violence wherein excessive
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 88–104 (17 total)