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...Eric Brandom Abstract This paper explains the meaning and significance of violence in Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence (1908) through an examination of three distinctions that structure the book. First between the proletarian strike and the merely political strike; second between myth...

...Emily Regan Wills 156 Book Reviews Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Non-Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement, New York: Cambridge UP, 2011, 304 pp. Violence, Non- Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement provides suggestive answers to two popular questions about politics: First: when do...

... trafficking secured more votes than any other initiative or candidate in a single statewide election in California history. We argue that the measure exemplifies a disjuncture in the articulation of feminist politics against sexual violence, labor exploitation, and criticisms of the carceral state. The rise...

...Heather Pool; Allison Rank Abstract A comparative reading of two recent crime dramas, The Fall (TF) and The Bletchley Circle (BC), demonstrates the limits of law and potential of care to address violence against women. TF , a Nordic noir, moves beyond a gender-blind account of crime yet relies...

... access to multiple identity categories simultaneously in order to live free of violence. © 2015 Caucus for a New Political Science 2015 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2015 VOL. 37, NO.4, 494-508 httpdx.doLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2015.1 089026 Intersectional Citizenship, Violence, and Lesbian Resistance...

...Kevin D. Pham Abstract The well-known claim that violence marks the end or failure of politics can be misleading. This essay uses the case of Vietnamese anticolonialism to argue that French colonial violence may have marked the failure of politics between colonizer and colonized, but, more...

...Rose A. Owen Abstract Turning to Valerie Solanas, the second wave writer famous for shooting Andy Warhol, this paper reconstructs a forgotten argument for the feminist use of violence. In the SCUM Manifesto , Solanas calls for women to commit gendercide against men to build a feminist utopia...

...Matt Shafer Abstract This synoptic essay reflects on contemporary impasses in the cultural politics of language. I argue that current controversies about linguistic violence reflect an unresolved tension between two distinct registers in which debates about language operate. One framework, best...

...Abigail Cary Moore Abstract A series of Supreme Court decisions in the past 40 years transformed the legal standard for police use of force, centering officers’ assessments of a suspect’s potential for violence. Using the oral arguments from three landmark SCOTUS cases, I trace the development...

...Kellan Anfinson Abstract Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing...

...Kevin Duong © 2022 Caucus for a New Political Science 2022 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2022, VOL. 44, NO.1, 27-41 httpsdoi.org/l0.l 080/07393148.2022.2031 024 Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue Kevin Duong Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA ~ Check...

...David Siegel Abstract Marx argued that transitions to capitalism require the violent dispossession of direct producers from their means of production. Many scholars have gone beyond the violence of transition to argue that state force is continuously used to maintain market relations. A major...

... that it was the combination of that course and the threat of violence on the part of African Americans that fully explain those two victories. A close reading of the texts and actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X is indispensable for my claim. The archival evidence, as well, makes a convincing case for the CRA...

...Yves Winter © 2012 Caucus for a New Political Science 2012 New Political Science, Volume 34, Number 2, June 2012 Sytnposiutn Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence Yves Winter, Guest Editor Contributors: Andrew Dilts Loyola Marymount University, USA Yves Winter University...

...Samuel A. Chambers Abstract Today, both politicians and the media echo the refrain that the world has changed fundamentally since 9/11. This shift involves the tacit sense that the world is more violent, as 9/11 is conceived as an act of pure violence. This article works against the grain...

...Maria Boikova Struble Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship , edited by Heather Smith-Cannoy , Philadelphia, PA , Temple University Press , 2019 , 292 pp., $37.95 (softcover), ISBN 978-1439917190 © 2020 Maria Boikova Struble 2020...

...William S. Solomon © 1993 Caucus for a New Political Science 1993 FRAMING VIOLENCE William S. Solomon Framing Violence: Press Coverag of the L.A.P.D./Rodney King Beating and First Trial 85 Under what circumstances does meaningful debate occur within the mainstream U.S. news media? Studies...

...Celeste Montoya Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India , by Natasha Behl , New York City, New York , Oxford University Press , 2019 , 172 pp., $74.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9780190949426 © 2020 Celeste Montoya 2020 9NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 463...

... be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that constitutes the political status quo points to an always available opening in which the utopian impulse for an environmental democracy...

...Andrew W. Alexander Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence , by Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran , Editors, Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 , 352 pp., $30.00 (softcover), ISBN: 978-1-5179-0748-8 © 2022 Andrew W. Alexander 2022 @NEW POLITICAL...