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differences (2019) 30 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2019
... communal violence sexual violence sexuality psychoanalytic feminism reading In 2002, my home state of Gujarat in India erupted in communal violence: Hindus against Muslims. At least a thousand Muslims were killed in the communal riots that engulfed Gujarat that year. 1 A majority...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... cultural violence; the elements of popular fantasy that animate it; the forms of modern state and transnational power the category occludes; and the ahistorical and divisive civilizational thinking it encourages. Drawing both on ethnography from one Egyptian Bedouin community in which honor is a key moral...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 63–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Poulomi Saha The years between 1930 and 1933 saw a dramatic rise in anticolonial violence in Bengal. Young women who participated in this violence, caught between competing masculinist discourses of colonial authorities and nationalist communities that deemed them either dupes or martyrs...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the liberal representative state, the author argues that war is now a fully operational part of the organizational work that terms like community, culture , and humanity are now doing (and doing differently than before). War in the sense invoked here is activated at various levels of intensity and visibility...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 2023
... narcissism. By this Bersani asks us to move past the psychic dynamics of ego formation and their implicit violence to make way for a mode of relationality in which subjects coexist absent of any demands on one another. This approach draws from Bersani’s own eviscerating critique of the heteronormative...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to that reactive
violence that produces violence and allows it to become generalized.
The “negative” universality of the community of citizens—not
so much in its extensive, territorial, and consequently national dimension...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
Published: 01 May 2011
... communities than white communities.
In fact, some have argued that many feminists and battered women’s
advocates appear to suspect that “other” cultures actually support domes-
tic violence—without turning to ask whether this may also...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 197–227.
Published: 01 May 2019
... is unacceptable conduct” (“Risk Reduction for Intimate Partner Violence,” Napa Valley College). Colleges also circulate information on “reducing the risk of being sexually assaulted,” including encouraging students to “know your sexual intentions and limits,” “communicate your limits firmly and directly,” “listen...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2019
... sustainable forms of reparative justice. They are organized instead around creating a world in which only the unwounded are allowed to flourish. In communities marked by the generational violences of settler colonialism, police occupation, state-enforced poverty, domestic abuse, and immigrant despair...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Smear the queer engenders a calculus of violence, as the game represents a mode of policing, and the film highlights the ways race, gender, and sexuality are marshaled to regulate queer Black people’s embodied expression. Focusing on those who touch protagonist Chiron’s life, the author considers smear...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... But spanning those
differences and accentuating and fostering this violence is a political
imaginary that, over the past twelve years, has clouded Australian skies
with an ideal of national identity that disables community for indigenous...
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differences (1999) 11 (1): 112–149.
Published: 01 May 1999
...
put to death, this narrative allowed women to assume this violence as a
common experience in order to build communal support, but it also
inadvertently preempted an engagement with the actual victims. This
narrative thus exposed...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
... wage against women, community, and society in intricate ways. First, family is a microstate where “the stately” anchors itself in society, 7 and men, who monopolize the means of violence and decision making, rule over women. Second, family monitors, disciplines, and reduces women’s capacities...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to state-sanctioned violence and community policing, a concern that is exacerbated by President Trump’s continual call for more “law and order” punishment. While scholars have increasingly investigated the hyperpunitive nature of the registry, particularly with the passing of the Adam Walsh Child...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2019
... their community. Given this, many were shocked by the university’s decision to invite George Will to give a commencement address at the campus’s December ceremony. In June of that year, Will had published an op-ed in the Washington Post that denounced antiharassment/antisexual violence activists...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–128.
Published: 01 April 1993
... of inhabiting the body-machine complex. I want to suggest, then, that it is not quite a primary identification or imitation that becomes conspicuous in, for instance, cases of serial violence but, beyond that, an intimacy with technologies (and not least media technologies of relay and communication - clearly...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
... inside and outside of the black community. It is thus both inexcusable to ignore sexual violence and a truth to be acknowledged that individual acts by black bad actors become tools for racist attacks on black people as a group. As Nicole Fleetwood explains, the black iconic image carries “a sort...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 74–95.
Published: 01 May 2015
... our “own” communities. If we are in , we are also of . This situation may be mitigated but not overcome through extreme self-reflexivity; to deny its reality is to perpetrate a different form of violence. In his 1970 lecture, “On Doing ‘Being Ordinary,’ ” Harvey Sacks considers the work it takes...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2007
... communication between men.
It further helps us understand why, in a feminist reading, that argument
itself sounds like an act of violence. Certainly, we must recognize the dif-
ference between inegalitarian matrimonial exchange...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 23–67.
Published: 01 July 1996
... and "the patriarchy." Hip and straight women's shared status as subjects menaced by physical violence mandated female solidarity across the boundaries of ideological sangfroid. In contrast to earlier essays that underscored the unifying violences of the "daytime ghetto community" (123), Morgan ends the "Elegy...
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