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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page-The practice of war; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I-Changing qualities of violence: case studies from africa; Ch 1-'We turned our enemies into baboons'; Ch 2-Culture slipping away; Ch 3-Catholics and cannibals; Part II-Memory, trauma and redemption; Ch 4-Coming through slaughter; Ch 5-Trauma, therapy and responsibility; Ch 6-'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise'; Part III-Organizing, encouraging and dissuading; Ch 7-Is war gendered?; Ch 8-Judging by aesthetics; Ch 9-Islamist militancy in Kashmir.
- Part IV-The inscription of war in mediated worldsCh 10-In the combat zone; Ch 11-'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks; Ch 12-Martyrs, victims, friends, and foes; Ch 13-Maping a conflict in cyberspace; Part V-Peace building at the crossroads; Ch 14-Violence and peace processes; Index.