... of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading “The Fire Next Time” (1963) and “No Name in the Street” (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)logic of anti-Blackness that necessitates racist violence as a structural component of its practice...

.... As was true of other political parties in other cities and other elections in Sierra Leone's turbulent past, violence played a key role in structuring rally day events and participants’ experiences of them. Yet this violence has not always been the same. In 2018 the beating of a young man by a rally crowd...

...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...

...Madiha Tahir; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir As violence work, policing exceeds the institution of the police. Indeed, the latest bout of American invasions that cluster under the label “global war on terror” have been framed as policing operations by American officials as well as scholars. What...

...Meena Alexander Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Piecemeal Shelter: Writing, Ethnicity, Violence Meenu Alexander F or many years now, I have been haunted by the sense that the act of writing...

...Adam Ashforth This essay anatomizes the postelection violence in Kenya in 2007 to identify the different forms of ethnic conflict so as to analyze their implications for the future stability of a democratic regime in the country. It argues that five types of ethnic conflict marked the aftermath...

... Anthropologist (September 2001). Departures from Violence: Love Is Not Enough Laura Nader There is something uplifting about reading John Borneman’s piece on what Tconditions might make reconciliation after violent...

...Beatriz Jaguaribe This interview investigates how the photographer Rogério Reis created his photographic installation Microwave as a response to the urban violence of the drug trade in Rio de Janeiro. It explores also how Reis decided to make this aesthetic option, how the relation between...

... is the author of “Making Affect Safe for Democracy? On Constitutional Patriotism,” Political Theory (February 2000), and Bound by Recognition (forthcoming). Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal...

.... Nationalism As Such: Violence during South Africa’s Political Transition Ivor Chipkin T he study of Africa has been prejudiced by omissions. Most glaring is the fail- Ture to treat the question of nationalism...

... and the state in Australia , edited by Jeremy Beckett. Adelaide, Australia: Social Analysis. Bell, Diane. 1998 . Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A world that is, was, and will be . North Melbourne:Spinifex. Bolger, Audrey. 1991 . Aboriginal women and violence: A report for the Criminology Research Council...

... African People . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Daniel , E. Valentine . 1996 . Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropology of Violence . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Das , Veena . 1990 . Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia . Delhi...

...). Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of “Chinese Cultures” in Post-1998 Jakarta Abidin Kusno “Serbu . . . serbu . . . serbu...

... University Press, 1995 . Beckett , Samuel . Ill Seen, Ill Said. New York: Grove Press, 1981 . Bhabha , Homi . “In a Spirit of Calm Violence.” In After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements , ed. Gyan Prakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995...

...Pallavi Govindnathan This essay defines the spread of acid attacks in South Asia and other regions, where disputes over land, inheritances, dowries, and declined marriage proposals often arouse greed and jealousy and lead to violence. Acid attacks are profoundly vicious crimes, the more so because...

... of Religion in Africa 24 : 98 -133. de Dorlodot , P. 1994 . “Marche d'Espoir” Kinshasa 16 février 1992: Non-violence pour la démocratie au ZaÏre . Paris: L'Harmattan. de Maximy , R. 1984 . Kinshasa, ville en suspens . Dynamique de la croissance et problèmes d'urbanisme: Approche...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: Amid Violence Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar To judge from its first decade, the twenty-first century is no less violent than the twentieth...

... University, Budapest, December 1–3, 2008, while I was an Open Society Fellow at that university. The research reported was done at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, for a study of the mass violence that accompanied the independence of India and Pakistan. This work could not have been...

...Michel Wievioka Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 Violence, Culture and Democracy: A European Perspective Michel Wieviorka U rban terrorism, perpetrated by sects...

...Joseph Weiss Abstract This article draws on an analysis of the consistent phenomenon of “settler shock”—the persistent invocations of surprise expressed by settler Canadians whenever there are reports of historical or ongoing violence against Indigenous Peoples—to articulate the dynamics...