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The Tropicalist Moment
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Christopher Dunn
Published: 15 October 2001
... in Tropicália, political violence, and affirmation of marginality in tropicalist songs. Brasilidade under Vargas Caminha Pero Vaz Freyre Gilberto Oiticica Hélio Tropicália dialogic quality of “Tropicália” song by Caetano Veloso Tropicália Oiticica installation Allegory and Tropicália Andrade Oswald de...
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The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia
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John M. MacDougall
Published: 04 February 2008
... to examine how social disorder and political violence are experienced by a leading intellectual who has been deeply involved in Indonesian politics on the island of Lombok. The chapter also discusses an alternative type of political madness in which individual paranoia mirrors local and national political...
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Published: 10 December 2013
... and Jews Anderson Chris Aztlán Hecker Marc Internet Rid Thomas bin Laden Osama extremism globalization internet political violence terrorism Despite the multitude of radical groups extant today, historically, the United States has not provided fertile ground for political extremism. Although...
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Extremism in America
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George Michael (ed.)
Published online: 29 May 2014
Published in print: 10 December 2013
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Bios, Pathos, and Life Emergent
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Yasmeen Arif
Published: 15 November 2016
... emotion Biopolitics Politics of life Philosophical anthropology Civil War Communal Violence Humanitarianisms International criminal law Political violence Social suffering A life. … No one has described what a life is better than Charles Dickens, if we take the indefinite article as an index...
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Published: 31 October 2002
...This chapter is divided into three main sections. The first part presents the reader with the accumulated body of facts with regard to the Israeli response to extremist phenomena and political violence throughout the history of the State of Israel. The second part of the chapter assumes...
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Published: 11 November 2014
.../Palestinian political violence shared sites sacred sites Who organizes and who benefits from religious strife? This chapter explores several political riots in Jerusalem and the West Bank surrounding religious sites and the role played by the state in creating space for the riot and in responding...
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Spoiling the peace?
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S.A. Whiting
Published: 01 July 2015
...’ groups during peace processes and engages with the debate surrounding how states best manage political violence. By contemplating contextual variables within different global situations this final section explores the broader problems of dissident militants across states and assesses the most appropriate...
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Ministries of Fear
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Ellen Willis
Published: 01 July 2012
...This chapter argues that what passes for public discussion of political violence, particularly terrorism, is simple-minded. Terrorism once had a fairly specific meaning; it was understood to be a kind of warfare, practiced by liberation movements and by governments bent on suppressing them. Today...
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Published: 28 June 2004
... in Iran Zaman H political violence gender violence Iraqi Kurdistan Kurdish women Gulf War nationalism honor killing genocide Violence against women occurs throughout the world. It takes numerous forms depending on the context in which patriarchal gender relations interact with social formations...
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Published: 12 March 2012
... that claimed the lives of 69,000 Peruvians, mostly indigenous peasants. This chapter follows the historical trajectory of Chuschi and Huaychao through the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s, providing a brief overview of the historical and political conditions in which the Shining Path emerged...
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Conclusion
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Miguel La Serna
Published: 12 March 2012
... political violence and suggests that examining political violence through a localized, cultural, and historical lens can offer useful lessons for policy making. Bolivia Ilave Puno Department Indigenous peasants and “apotheosis of agency ” Juliaca Lynching in Bolivia Violence attacks by Quispillacctinos...
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Introduction: There are no Counterrevolutionaries here
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Christopher Kaplonski
Published: 30 November 2014
... monastic compound in the country. This work uses the lama question to investigate how and when states turn to the use of political violence. In doing so, it calls for a rethinking of the anthropology of the state as well the relationship between political violence and contingent states. The Introduction...
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Surveillance and Control: The Religious Administration and the Government Representatives
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Christopher Kaplonski
Published: 30 November 2014
... Hüree Bat Ochir Erdene Zuu Monastery Council of Ministers accommodation between socialists and Buddhists Buddhism Choibalsan Galindev Lhümbe lama Secret and Political Section Töv Province Party organization journal political violence state of exception Mongolia political anthropology...
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A Tale of Two Lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
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Christopher Kaplonski
Published: 30 November 2014
... Ministry of Internal Affairs sovereignty Buur Lars Countryside Faction Geertz Clifford Buddhism Comintern Communist International political violence state of exception Mongolia political anthropology Buddhism socialism On 15 December 1934, Prime Minister Genden and three Mongolian leaders met...
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The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
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Christopher Kaplonski
Published: 30 November 2014
...The final technology of exception saw a shift to physical violence and mass killings. Rather than a measure that was adopted for its efficacy, political violence was turned to almost as an admission of defeat by the socialist state. The start of the third technology was marked by a public show...
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Conclusion: Violence and the Contingent State
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Christopher Kaplonski
Published: 30 November 2014
...The conclusion draws together the arguments and material in the book to consider their contribution to notions of sovereignty, political violence, and their relation to the state of exception. It, shows how the final recourse to mass killing was in some ways an admission of defeat by the socialist...
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Euskadi Ta Askatasuna: A Case Study on Terrorist Dynamics and the Fight to Survive
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Nell Bennett
Published online: 26 February 2025
Published in print: 28 April 2025
... and recognized. However, I am aware that the very concept of terrorism is contested. I am using an objective definition of terrorism to examine a specific subcategory of political violence. However, in making the decision to adopt this definition, I considered competing definitions and subjectivist arguments...
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Sri Lanka
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John A. Lent and John A. Lent
Published: 27 January 2023
... Sri Lankan political cartoons terrorism Aubrey Collette G. S. Fernando Jiffry Yoonoos political violence All over Asia (and likely, the world), prominent cartoonists have shattered their parents’ dreams and plans for their futures. In Sri Lanka, the same. The country’s pioneer political...
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Populist Publics
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Francis Cody
Published: 26 April 2023
... newspaper attacks on media in Tamil Nadu attacks on political violence in India recent increase in Press Council Reports on violence against media Shiv Sena party Wagle Nikhil attacks on Jayalalithaa J Kumudam newspaper Narayanan Velur Sarkaria Commission Sun News TV Tharasu magazine actors...