The practice of war production, reproduction and communication of armed violence
This book offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the specific and the general in wartime. It examines how people cope and adjust to situations of war, depending upon whether these are low-intensity or high-intensity ones, on whether they are brief phases of conflict or long en...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books
2007.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797952506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Practice of War; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF WAR; PART I. CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA; CHAPTER 1. 'WE TURNED OUR ENEMIES INTO BABOONS': WARFARE, RITUAL AND PASTORAL IDENTITY AMONG THE POKOT OF NORTHERN KENYA; CHAPTER 2. CULTURE SLIPPING AWAY: VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TENSION AND PERSONAL DRAMA IN SURI SOCIETY, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA; CHAPTER 3. CATHOLICS AND CANNIBALS: TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO, WESTERN UGANDA; PART II. MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION
- CHAPTER 4. COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER: THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, 1904-1940CHAPTER 5 TRAUMA, THERAPY AND RESPONSIBILITY: PSYCHOLOGY AND WAR IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL; CHAPTER 6. 'I SHALL BE WAITING FOR YOUAT THE DOOR OF PARADISE': THE PAKISTANI MARTYRS OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBA (ARMY OF THE PURE); PART III ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGION; CHAPTER 7 IS WAR GENDERED? ISSUES IN REPRESENTING WOMEN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR; CHAPTER 8 JUDGING BY AESTHETICS: 'DUE CARE' IN THE MANAGEMENT OF 'COLLABORATION' IN THE FIRST PALESTINIAN INTIFADA
- CHAPTER 9. ISLAMIST MILITANCY IN KASHMIR: THE CASE OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBAPART IV. THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS; CHAPTER 10. IN THE COMBAT ZONE; CHAPTER 11. 'VIRTUAL' DISCOURSE AND THE CREATION AND DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE WAR IN KASHMIR IN CYBERSPACE; CHAPTER 12. MARTYRS, VICTIMS, FRIENDS AND FOES: INTERNET REPRESENTATIONS BY PALESTINIAN ISLAMISTS; CHAPTER 13. MAPPING A CONFLICT IN CYBERSPACE: CHIAPAS ON THE WWW; PART V. PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVALENCES OF INTEREST; CHAPTER 14. VIOLENCE AND PEACE PROCESSES; INDEX
