... but also facilitates a nuanced understanding of the territory as a victim of armed conflict. The objective of this book is to present an account of the aftermath of a violent civil war and the narratives that emerge from the scars it leaves behind. By prioritizing the analysis of cosmo-ecological networks...

...Imed Ben Labidi The thematic foci of the Franco-Algerian war films of decolonization have shifted in the last few decades from evoking triumphalist discourses and redemptive fictional narratives to producing powerful transnational antiwar stories. While being critical of the violent history...

... in his essay “The Violence of the Media,” it argues that violence not only is conveyed or represented by that medium but resides in the medium itself. Media add violence to our already violent culture not only by their content but by the very fact of their facticity. This raises the political question...

...Jenny Stümer The escalating death tolls of migrants seeking to enter Europe are a dramatic testimony to the cynical, dehumanizing, and violent fortification of the European Union, whereby refugees and asylum seekers have become the emblematic figures of contemporary political exclusion. Rather than...

... representative of the sadistic neoliberal capitalist system that voraciously consumes value and violently others abjection. Despite the fall of Sarkozy and the election of the socialist François Hollande, I argue that this identification with the Romanian Roma remains central to cultural politics today...

... by Sundaram in this period, the paper outlines the centrality, as both form and motif, of the boat . Cited, improvised, and elaborated upon repeatedly, Sundaram's boat-works advance an alternative account of cultural origins that unfolds around incidents of violent rupture and survival. Frequently assembled...

... of extreme, confrontational, crude, and violent cultural strategies of contestation, such as vandalism, destruction, and removal of cultural artifacts from the colonialist or apartheid era. The article aims to reappropriate predominantly stigmatizing and derogatory depictions and theorizations...

... that are somehow beyond critique are perversions of our capacity to make our world better brought about by a kind of antihumanist hubris and failure to understand history and the tradition of those who came before. Bauman’s very human opposition to this strain of brutal utopianism based in violent othering...

... by allowing its members to imagine themselves as the “proud” descendants of a long line of ancestors that preceded them (Smith 1995 ; Geisler 2005 ). The nation thus imagined is “repeatedly” (Elgenius 2011 ) reconstructed and “renewed” (Geisler 2005 : xviii), not only in violent and militarized ways...

... in the struggle against racism, which was identified with precision as a conflict over the nature of masculinity.” For Gilroy and hooks, Black masculine subjectivity is pulled toward the expression of vulnerability and sorrow by blues and jazz and toward (an oxymoronic) violent indifference by rap and hip-hop...

... by humans, though nature is never simply culture writ large. The violent, antigovernment movement of 2019 in Hong Kong had been most visually represented by the street battles between protesters and police that regularly used tear gas, pepper spray, bean bag rounds, sponge bullets, and water cannons...

... flows of migration are critical to Johannesburg, both practically and existentially. This is hardly a new revelation, but it is dealt with here in intimate ways that are particularly effective given recent events in South Africa, such as the violent destruction of the Yeoville market that forms the core...

... and wounding twenty-five, both episodes that I cover in my book Guys and Guns Amok ( Kellner 2008 ). In these cases, aggrieved and enraged young men, mostly white, work out their crises in masculinity and go on violent rampages to create media spectacles where they attain a hard masculine identity and have...

... and the environment on children, Burlingham and Freud offer us a child whose natural state is partly violent rage, in an environment that offers opportunities for this rage to be legitimated and socially extended. In developmental terms, war prolongs early childhood into adolescence and beyond: Under the present war...

...). These are: first, the realization at the beginning of this project that the milieu of the noetic soul has always already involved the technics of external memory; second, the realization in 2001 that our “cinematic age” has gone violently awry and that the twenty-first century would begin with spectacular evidence...

... work in chapters 7 to 9. Tugging, so to speak, on two of the threads of that work – the well-known article on Kant and Enlightenment ( Foucault 1984 ) and the 1983 article “L'écriture de soi” ( Foucault 1997 ), a text he regards as unduly neglected, Stiegler violently unravels the Foucauldian fabric...

... contemporary terrorisms as a violent characteristic of a much broader phenomenon. Whether rich or poor, being exploited or benefiting from the current global system, in each of us resides a desire to watch the demise of any ultimate power. He suggests that, although it was they who perpetrated the attack...

... to security and imagined geographies of violence continues to obscure the real and present danger of prolonged containment and the violent geographies it imposes. Throughout the enforcement archipelago, enforcement measures along the border, in ports, at sea, and on islands obscure the mundane yet life...

.... In contrast, some communities in Bajo Atrato express other kinds of concerns as they manifest their intention not to return to these lands because they are now haunted by the spirits of those who suffered a violent death and whose bodies were never buried. Discussions around the effects of war...

... of a more just, democratic, and equitable world. The long ’68 was built on the human faith that there exists a new possibility for shared solidarities not only among students and workers but also between those in Berkeley and Vietnam, Dar es Salaam, Dakar and Paris. This possibility was violently terminated...