Violence : 'mercurial gestalt' /
"Susanne Chassay explores the relationship between private and political terrorism. Her viewpoint complements analyses of violence - that 'mercurial gestalt' - by other contributors to this collection derived from a Cultures of Violence conference held at St. Catherine's College,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 47. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Violence in Theory and Praxis : Torture, Terror, Suicide
- Theories of violence and the explanation of ultra-violent behaviour / Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer
- E pluribus unum : European nationalism, or Shopping for identities in the European Union / Oleg Piletsky
- From soldier to torturer? Military training and moral agency / Jessica Wolfendale
- A literature of terror and mourning / Kaiama L. Glover
- Hurtling toward darkness : Faces of violence in the contemporary world / Susanne Chassay
- Part 2. Violence Secret and Sanctioned : Child Abuse, Apartheid, FGM
- Violence on the screen : Psychological perspectives on child abuse in American popular film, 1992-2001 / Larissa N. Niec, Elizabeth V. Breston, and Linda Anne Valle
- Creative writing of FGM as an act of violence and human rights abuse / Tobe Levin
- Re-constructing South African identity after 1994 : Museums and public history / M.K. Flynn and Tony King
- Speaking of connected sites : Narrative and praxis of spatial competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Karen Lysaght
- Racism and violence : Anti-racist strategies in intercultural contact zones / Eleonore Wildburger
- Part 3. Violence and Institutions : Butchery, Execution, Riots
- The enemy within : Earthquake, rumours and massacre in the Japanese Empire / Jin-hee Lee
- When saviour becomes serpent : The psychology of police violence / William Vlach
- "Equality in life presumes equality in death" : Gender and execution in Sunbelt America / Vivien Miller.