Violence And Belonging

Author : Are J. Knudsen
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788776940454

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Violence and Belonging by Are J. Knudsen Pdf

Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954.

Author : Vigdis Broch-Due
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415290066

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Violence and Belonging by Vigdis Broch-Due Pdf

Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.

Author : Adi Kuntsman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cyberspace
ISBN : 3039115642

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Figurations of Violence and Belonging by Adi Kuntsman Pdf

This book offers a critical analysis of the complex relationship between violence and belonging, by exploring the ways sexual, ethnic or national belonging can work through, rather than against, violence. Based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking, queer immigrants in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace, it gives an insight into the world of hate speech and fantasies of torture and sexual abuse; of tormented subjectivities and uncanny homes; of ghostly hauntings from the past and anxieties about the present and future. The author raises questions about the responsibilities of national homemaking, the complicity of queerness within violent regimes of colonialism and war, and the ambivalence of immigrant belonging at the intersection of marginality and privilege. Drawing from scholarship on migration, diaspora and race studies, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and studies on cyberculture, the book traces the interplay between the different forms of violence - physical and verbal, social and psychic, material and discursive - and offers novel insights into the analysis of nationalism, on-line sociality and queer migranthood.

Author : Vigdis Broch-Due
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0415290074

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Violence and Belonging by Vigdis Broch-Due Pdf

Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8125042016

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Violence and Belonging by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rabab Abdulhadi,Evelyn Alsultany,Nadine Naber
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815651239

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Arab and Arab American Feminisms by Rabab Abdulhadi,Evelyn Alsultany,Nadine Naber Pdf

In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other. Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.

Author : M. Palacios
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137003690

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Radical Sociality by M. Palacios Pdf

A philosophical and psychoanalytic investigation of relations to otherness, violence, disobedience and belonging, Radical Sociality explores the possibilities and vicissitudes of contemporary forms of belonging and the limits and challenges of democracy.

Author : James Greenaway
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268206000

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A Philosophy of Belonging by James Greenaway Pdf

James Greenaway offers a philosophical guide to understanding, affirming, and valuing the significance of belonging across personal, political, and historical dimensions of existence. A sense of belonging is one of the most meaningful experiences of anyone’s life. Inversely, the discovery that one does not belong can be one of the most upsetting experiences. In A Philosophy of Belonging, Greenaway treats the notion of belonging as an intrinsically philosophical one. After all, belonging raises intense questions of personal self-understanding, identity, mortality, and longing; it confronts interpersonal, sociopolitical, and historical problems; and it probes our relationship with both the knowable world and transcendent mystery. Experiences of alienation, exclusion, and despair become conspicuous only because we are already moved by a primordial desire to belong. Greenaway presents a hermeneutical framework that brings the intelligibility of belonging into focus and discusses the works of various representative thinkers in light of this hermeneutic. The study is divided into two main parts, “Presence” and “Communion.” In the first, Greenaway considers the abiding presence of the cosmos as the context of personhood and the world, followed by the presence of persons to themselves and others by way of consciousness and embodiment, culminating in a discussion of the unrestricted horizon of meaning that love makes present in persons. In the second part, belonging in community is explored as a crucial type of communion that is both politically and historically structured. Moreover, communion has direction and a quality of sacredness that offers itself for consideration. Greenaway concludes with a discussion of the consequences of refusing presence and communion, and what is involved in the repudiation of belonging.

Author : Helene Berman,Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao,Kate Elliott,Eugenia Canas
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633541

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Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth by Helene Berman,Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao,Kate Elliott,Eugenia Canas Pdf

Though interpersonal violence is widely studied, much less has been done to understand structural violence, the often-invisible patterns of inequality that reproduce social relations of exclusion and marginalization through ideologies, policies, stigmas, and discourses attendant to gender, race, class, and other markers of social identity. Structural violence normalizes experiences like poverty, ableism, sexual harassment, racism, and colonialism, and erases their social and political origins. The legal structures that provide impunity for those who exploit youth are also part of structural violence’s machinery. Working with Indigenous, queer, immigrant and homeless youth across Canada, this five-year Youth-based Participatory Action Research project used art to explore the many ways that structural violence harms youth, destroying hope, optimism, a sense of belonging and a connection to civil society. However, recognizing that youth are not merely victims, Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth also examines the various ways youth respond to and resist this violence to preserve their dignity, well-being and inclusion in society.

Author : T. J. Tallie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1517905184

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Queering Colonial Natal by T. J. Tallie Pdf

How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes "queered" indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they sought to impose, they did so by delimiting Zulu polygamy; restricting alcohol access, clothing, and even friendship; and assigning only Europeans to government schools. Using queer and critical indigenous theory, this book critically assesses Natal (where settlers were to remain a minority) in the context of the global settler colonial project in the nineteenth century to yield a new and engaging synthesis. Tallie explores the settler colonial history of Natal's white settlers and how they sought to establish laws and rules for both whites and Africans based on European mores of sexuality and gender. At the same time, colonial archives reveal that many African and Indian people challenged such civilizational claims. Ultimately Tallie argues that the violent collisions between Africans, Indians, and Europeans in Natal shaped the conceptions of race and gender that bolstered each group's claim to authority.

Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451492651

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Rethinking Early Christian Identity by Maia Kotrosits Pdf

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2013 under title: Affect, violence, and belonging in early Christianity.

Author : BRIGITTINE M. FRENCH
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103209561X

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Narratives of Conflict, Belonging, and the State by BRIGITTINE M. FRENCH Pdf

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality, and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality. Focusing specifically on post-war conditions in Ireland, the author contextualizes commonplace practices by which citizens are made to learn the gap between official membership in and political belonging to a democratic state. Each chapter takes up a different aspect of state authority and power to constitute citizenship, to enact laws, to mediate conflict, and to create histories in the context of social inequalities and political hostilities. This book is an excellent ethnographic addition to courses in linguistic anthropology, giving readers the opportunity to explore applications and ramifications of key theoretical text within research.

Author : Charles Vogl
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626568426

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The Art of Community by Charles Vogl Pdf

Create a Culture of Belonging! Strong cultures help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such cultures of belonging aren't just happy accidents - they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they're in a company, a faith institution or among friends and enthusiasts. Drawing on 3,000 years of history and his personal experience, Charles Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective and connected communities. He provides hands-on tools for creatively adapting these principles to any group—formal or informal, mission driven or social, physical or virtual. This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a vibrant, living culture that will enrich lives. Winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award in the Business and Leadership Category.

Author : Kavita Daiya
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592137442

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Violent Belongings by Kavita Daiya Pdf

Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

Author : Umi Sinha
Publisher : Myriad Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908434753

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Belonging by Umi Sinha Pdf

Set during the years of the British Raj, Umi Sinha's unforgettable debut novel is a compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, race and ethnicity, homeland - and belonging. Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father's surprise birthday present - a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her Great-aunt Wilhelmina. From the darkest days of the British Raj through to the aftermath of the First World War, BELONGING tells the interwoven story of three generations and their struggles to understand and free themselves from a troubled history steeped in colonial violence. It is a novel of secrets that unwind through Lila's story, through her grandmother's letters home from India and the diaries kept by her father, Henry, as he puzzles over the enigma of his birth and his stormy marriage to the mysterious Rebecca.