Binding Violence

Author : Moira Fradinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804774659

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Binding Violence by Moira Fradinger Pdf

Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat—that speak to a blind spot in democratic theory, namely, how we decide democratically on the borders of our political communities. These works bear the imprint of the anxieties of democracy concerning its other—violence—especially when the question of a redefinition of membership is at stake. The book shares the philosophical interest in rethinking politics that has recently surfaced at the crossroads of literary criticism, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. Fradinger takes seriously the responsibility to think through and give names to the political uses of violence and to provoke useful reflection on the problem of violence as it relates to politics and on literature as it relates to its times.

Author : Lois S. Bibbings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135309695

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Binding Men by Lois S. Bibbings Pdf

Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England. It does so by focusing upon five important legal cases, all of which were binding not only upon the males involved but also upon future courts and the men who appeared before them. The subject matter of Prince (1875), Coney (1882), Dudley and Stephens (1884), Clarence (1888) and Jackson (1891) ranged from child abduction, prize-fighting, murder and cannibalism to transmitting gonorrhoea and the capture and imprisonment of a wife by her husband. Each case has its own chapter, depicting the events which led the protagonists into the courtroom, the legal outcome and the judicial pronouncements made to justify this, as well as exploring the broader setting in which the proceedings took place. In so doing, Binding Men describes how a particular case can be seen as being a part of attempts to legally limit male behaviour. The book is essential reading for scholars and students of crime, criminal law, violence, and gender. It will be of interest to those working on the use of narrative in academic writing as well as legal methods. Binding Men’s subject matter and accessible style also make it a must for those with a general interest in crime, history and, in particular, male criminality.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Marital violence
ISBN : UOM:39015078624551

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Domestic Violence, 1978 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources Pdf

Author : Pavan Kumar Malreddy,Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha,Birte Heidemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000733402

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Violence in South Asia by Pavan Kumar Malreddy,Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha,Birte Heidemann Pdf

This volume explores new perspectives on contemporary forms of violence in South Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and case studies, it examines the infiltration of violence at the societal level and affords a comparative regional analysis of its historical, cultural and geopolitical origins in South Asia. Featuring essays from Sri Lanka to Nepal, and from Afghanistan to Burma, it sheds light on issues as wide-ranging as lynching and mob justice, hate speech, caste violence, gender-based violence and the plight of the Rohingyas, among others. Lucid and engaging, this book will be an invaluable source of reference as well as scholarship to students and researchers of postcolonial studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural geography, minority studies, politics and gender studies.

Author : Ronagh McQuigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317313052

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The Istanbul Convention, Domestic Violence and Human Rights by Ronagh McQuigg Pdf

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011. The Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 and has currently been ratified by 22 states. This Convention constitutes a crucial development as regards the movement to combat gender-based violence, as it sets new legally binding standards in this area. This book provides a detailed analysis of the Convention and its potential to make an impact in relation to the specific issue of domestic violence. The book places the Istanbul Convention in context with regard to developments relating to domestic violence as a human rights issue. The background to the adoption of the Convention is examined, and the text of this instrument is analysed in detail. Comparative analysis is engaged in with reference to the duties that have been placed on states by other bodies such as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the European Court of Human Rights. Comparisons are also drawn with the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women and with the relevant provisions of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. An in-depth examination of the advantages of the adoption of the Istanbul Convention by the Council of Europe is provided along with a detailed analysis of the challenges faced by the Convention. The book concludes with a number of brief reflections in relation to the question of whether the adoption of a UN convention on violence against women may be a possible development, and the potential such an instrument holds, in the context of domestic violence.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788732789

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The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler Pdf

Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a way of checking the conversion of aggression into violence. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilised in the service of ratifying the state’s monopoly on violence. Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how ‘racial phantasms’ inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. The struggle for nonviolence is found in movements for social transformation that reframe the grievability of lives in light of social equality and whose ethical claims follow from an insight into the interdependency of life as the basis of social and political equality.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Conjugal violence
ISBN : MINN:31951D008108582

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Domestic Violence, 1978 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development Pdf

Author : Janice Humphreys, PhD, RN, CS, NP,Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826118295

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Family Violence and Nursing Practice, Second Edition by Janice Humphreys, PhD, RN, CS, NP,Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN Pdf

Nurses too often encounter battered women, abused children, and other victims of family violence in hospital and emergency room settings. Nurses therefore have a unique and important role to play in the prevention, identification, and mitigation of violence. This newly revised second edition is a landmark resource that provides comprehensive, nursing-focused coverage of intimate partner violence (IPV), child abuse, and more. This textbook provides a detailed overview of all types of family and other violence, including IPV, same-sex IPV, abuse during pregnancy, intimate partner homicide, stalking, violence against women with disabilities, dating violence, child abuse, children witnessing violence, sexual assault of both children and adults, and elder abuse. The book offers both graduate and undergraduate nursing students a clear view of the essential theories, interventions, and issues surrounding nursing and family violence-presenting an approach that empowers nurses to contribute to the prevention of this worldwide health problem. Special Features: Chapters on legal and forensic issues address the nurse's role and responsibilities when confronting family violence In-depth attention to cultural issues promote culturally relevant practice Abundant diagrams and tables offer quick access to essential standards for care Practice assessment forms and model interventions give practical strategies for addressing family violence A new chapter describes international work in family violence

Author : John P. Pace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192608239

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The United Nations Commission on Human Rights by John P. Pace Pdf

In this book, John P. Pace provides the most complete account to-date of the United Nations human rights programme, both in substance and in chronological breadth. Pace worked at the heart of this programme for over thirty years, including as the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, and Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in 1993. He traces the issues taken up by the Commission after its launch in 1946, and the methods undertaken to enhance absorption and domestication of international human rights standards. He lays out the special procedures carried out by the UN, and the emergence of international human rights law. The book then turns to the establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the mainstreaming of human rights across the United Nations system, eventually leading to the establishment of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission in 2006. Many of the problems we face today, including conflict, poverty, and environmental issues, have their roots in human rights problems. This book identifies what has been done at the international level in the past, and points towards what still needs to be done for the future.

Author : Stephen M. Stahl,Debbi Ann Morrissette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107441606

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Stahl's Illustrated Violence by Stephen M. Stahl,Debbi Ann Morrissette Pdf

This pocket-sized volume in the Stahl's Illustrated series combines theoretical information from Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology with practical data from The Prescriber's Guide. This highly-illustrated guide presents the underlying neurobiology, genetic predisposition and management of aggressive behaviours in patients with psychiatric disorders.

Author : Pascal Bataringaya,Claudia Jahnel,Traugott Jähnichen,Penine Uwimbabazi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912077

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Overcoming Violence by Pascal Bataringaya,Claudia Jahnel,Traugott Jähnichen,Penine Uwimbabazi Pdf

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming violence". This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB).

Author : Kewley, Stephanie,Barlow, Charlotte
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781529203714

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Preventing Sexual Violence by Kewley, Stephanie,Barlow, Charlotte Pdf

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual violence and critically considers the limitations of these frameworks. Combining psychological, criminological, sociological and legal perspectives, it explores academic, practitioner and survivor points of view. It addresses broad themes, from cultures of sexual harassment to the role of media in oversexualising women and girls, as well as specific issues including violence against children and older people. For researchers, practitioners and students alike, this is an invaluable resource that maps new approaches for practice and prevention.

Author : Werner Riess
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110245608

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Performing Interpersonal Violence by Werner Riess Pdf

This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Performances such as the staging of trials and comedies ritually defined the meaning of violence and its appropriate application. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it in a mediated form, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability.

Author : Johannes Hunter,Joachim Kügler
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783863093938

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The Bible and Violence in Africa by Johannes Hunter,Joachim Kügler Pdf

Author : Herman M. Van Praag,Robert Plutchik,Alan Apter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317772521

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Violence And Suicidality : Perspectives In Clinical And Psychobiological Research by Herman M. Van Praag,Robert Plutchik,Alan Apter Pdf

First published in 1990. This monograph series, published under the auspices of the Department of Psychiatry of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, is meant to keep track of important developments in the profession pf psychiatry, to summarize what has been achieved in particular fields, and to bring together the viewpoints obtained from disparate vantage points-in short, to capture some of the excitement ongoing in modern psychiatry, both in its clinical and experimental dimensions. Violence and suicidality have always been major public health issues, but it is only fairly recently that they have become the focus of some major clinical and biological research efforts. This is due partly to a large increase in suicide and homicide rates in the young and partly to a realization that effective management of psychiatric patients cannot be based on categorical diagnosis alone, but requires an understanding of the patient's entire behavioral profile. This volume attempts to describe some of the most important advances in the psychobiological understanding of the behavioral dimensions of suicide and violence that have been made over the last 10 years. It is comprised of papers presented at two symposia held under the auspices of the department of psychiatry of Albert Einstein College of Medicine that were devoted to the topics of violence and suicide.