. This came as a surprise to me during my fieldwork, and it also stands in opposition to structurally inspired anthropological analyses of war and violence. Such analyses have primarily focused on the inherent potential of violence and war to create
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 181–200 (20 total)
Love and Violence
Sartre and the Ethics of Need
Katharine Wolfe
Love and Violence: Sartre and the Ethics of Need It could be argued that Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason substitutes Being and Nothingness' s ontological account of interpersonal violence, arising from bad faith, for a
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 37–56 (20 total)
Violence, Social Movements, and Black Freedom Struggles
Ten Theses toward a Research Agenda for Scholars of Contention Today
AK Thompson
eighteenth century made the violence of contentious politics more difficult to perceive ( Tarrow 1998 ). Violence, however, did not disappear. It underwrote the development of the modern nation-state and the public sphere upon which social movements would
Counter-Violence and Islamic Terrorism
Is Liberation without Freedom Possible?
Maria Russo
ambiguous and almost apparently contradictory thoughts (in particular concerning the theme of violence), but also because Sartre himself would have invited us to proceed beyond his proposal, which, moreover, was made before he could deliver his final legacy
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 80–98 (19 total)
Eliza Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry
In 2007, security personnel from the Canadian-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. Fenix mine, together with Guatemalan military and police forces, used destruction of crops and property, intimidation, physical assault, and sexual violence to evict the Q
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 167–185 (19 total)
Theorizing Democracy and Violence
The Case of Northern Ireland
Adrian Little
This article examines the concept of violence in contemporary political theory focusing in particular on the possibility of rethinking the relationship between violence and democracy. Rather than seeing democracy and violence as contrasting concepts, it argues that democratic societies have always been founded on the basis of violent engagement at some level. And, of course, the modern state has always claimed the legitimate use of force as a key ingredient in its authority. The article contends that many contemporary democratic discourses have lost sight of the integral relationship between democracy and violence. Indeed it is frequently the case that discourses of democracy are couched in ethical terms as the obverse of violence. Ironically, this trend is often most apparent where societies are either making a transition to democracy or where a process of conflict transformation is taking place. The limitations of these approaches for our understanding of violence and democracy will be outlined in this article through an examination of contemporary political developments in Northern Ireland.
Matthew C. Eshleman and Ronald E. Santoni
Can violence ever be justified or is violence necessarily oppressive? Is self-defensive counter-violence or “revolutionary violence” aimed at human liberation, which Sartre defended, necessarily in bad faith? These questions form the crux of the debate between Matt Eshleman and Ronald Santoni. Is violence by nature Manichean, making the Other into an “object” and evil antagonist, and thus dehumanizing and oppressing the Other? Or can violence be liberatory when it is directed at oppressors? Both authors—but especially Eshleman, and Santoni reluctantly—agree that some forms of violence (such as self-defense) do not involve bad faith, but disagree about whether or when revolutionary violence can be justified.
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2015
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- 59–84 (26 total)
Free from State Violence or Free to Comply?
A Revised Typology of Coercion and Repression in Liberal Democracies
Barbora Capinska
The literature concerning violence in democratic states often confusingly defines the notions of repression and coercion (e.g., Davenport 1999 ; Lyall 2006 ; Moore 2000 ; Pion-Berlin 1986 ; Schneider 2011) . The results of this confusion are
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 32–51 (20 total)
Erin R. Eldridge
taken many forms over the past century in efforts to legitimize an industry wrought with disasters, falling employment levels, human suffering, violence, and widespread environmental destruction ( Eldridge 2015 ). It is only within the past decade
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 99–115 (17 total)
Educational Persistence in the Face of Violence
Narratives of Resilient Latino Male Youth
Adrian H. Huerta
Latino boys and young men often carry the debt of violence into different spaces. This invisible trauma manifests into disruptive behaviors in schools. It is well documented that violence in urban communities and schools has received significant attention from researchers, but little attention has been paid to Latino male youth as individuals and the various forms of violence they have experienced, and how that impacts educational persistence. This qualitative study focuses on 26 Latino male middle and high school students who are attending two continuation schools to understand the types of violence they have experienced and their educational aspirations after high school.
In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 94–113 (20 total)