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Peace, culture, and violence /

Peace, Culture, and Violence examines deeper sources of violence by providing a critical reflection on the forms of violence that permeate everyday life and our inability to recognize these forms of violence. Exploring the elements of culture that legitimize and normalize violence, the essays collec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gursozlu, Fuat (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2018.
Colección:Value inquiry book series, Philosophy of peace volume 316.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Peace, Culture, and Violence; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 A Critique of Thug Culture; 2 The Role of Language in Justifying and Eliminating Cultural Violence; 3 Getting at the "Root Cause": Why a "Culture of Violence" is the Wrong Place to Focus; 4 Cultural Violence, Hegemony, and Agonistic Interventions; 5 Two Semites Confront Anti-Semitism: On the Varities of Anti-Semitic Experience; 6 The War on Drugs as Harm to Persons: Cultural Violence as Symbol and Justification
  • 7 Terrorism and the Necessity of Oppositional Clarification in the "War" Against It8 Just War Perspectives on Police Violence; 9 Cultural Violence and Gender Injustice in Africa: The Necessity for Enlightened Self-Interest; 10 War is America's Altar: Violence in the American Imagination; 11 Michel Foucault's Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New Philosophical Anthropology; 12 Toward a New Conception of Socially-Just Peace; Index