... changes at the hands of technology. In the collection Mountain Interval, published in 1916, Frost depicts the violence of technology toward humans in poems such as “Out, Out –“ and “The Vanishing Red,” but most of the violence is reserved for plants and animals, both domestic and wild. He...

...In the nineteenth century Liverpool gained an unenviable reputation as the most crime–ridden place in the country. Dock theft, alcohol–related crime, prostitution, sectarian violence, a high level of female offending and armies of juvenile thieves made Liverpool a distinct criminal landscape...

...This chapter examines the Kielce pogrom. On July 4, 1946, the most horrifying outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in post-war Poland took place in Kielce. On that day, ordinary citizens of this central Polish town, together with soldiers and militiamen, murdered forty Polish Jews and injured more than...

... in political, popular, and scholarly discourse, and in exploring the ways in which the massacre has been rendered both visible and invisible. Comparisons with Vichy (briefly) and with another episode of state violence (the 1962 police murder of protesters at the Charonne subway station) help to contextualize...

... to shape understandings of homosexuality through the period leading up to the First World War. Forster E M homophobia homosexuality violence Wilde Oscar homoeroticism Lawrence D H blackmail class Labouchere Amendment The Douglas Lord Alfred First World War The libel Oxford Ransome Arthur...

... of the Lambs, also released in 1991. How the depiction of sexual violence in the film avoids unintended titillation or identification with Robert De Niro’s antagonist, along with a review of the filmmaking practices used that would now be deemed unacceptable. Finally, how sexual politics have altered...

... Antilles gender Haiti Je suis Martiniquaise lactification Lara Sully “Nini mulâtresse du Sénégal” Peau noire masques blancs race self selfhood sexuality Tardon Raphaël violence World War II animalism bestiality Cahier d’un retour au pays natal colonial desire consumption of Black bodies...

... rights as comprising practices that are simultaneously discursive and material. Cases of such violations, all drawn from the South African context, include humans' use of non-human animals as instruments of violence against other humans; the constructed marginalisation and vulnerability of women...

...This chapter examines the development of a ‘civic tradition’ of market management in the Bristol region, in which loosely allied corporate, commercial, and middling-class interests acted to promote social harmony. It suggests that it was the unprecedented social violence unleashed by food price...

.... The chapter examines the administration of occupation in the German territories during the mid-eighteenth century, focusing on the development of a regulated system of payments, billeting, and political intervention as well as arbitrary violence during occupation. It also considers irregular warfare...

...Actual violence has been linked to its representations via two forms. First is the violence of art itself, the ‘violence of beauty’. Second is the violence that appears to intensify due to its representations. These two forms of representational violence – the violence endemic to representation...

... of disaster. The introduction considers Lahens’ understanding of fault lines, below and above ground, in light of Rob Nixon’s critique of the slow violence of environmental injustice and Michel Serres’ idea of a natural contract with the planet. It brings together Lahens, Nixon, and Serres to illustrate...

... Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism ‘My personal/political strategy is to take stock of what is history, our history to reiterate what is already fact and to challenge the gaping holes opened up by the present negligent...

... fragments Louverture Toussaint collage Meyer Arline Napoleon I response to historical paintings racism colour history James C L R pattern art history Johnson Claudette Vernet’s Studio Lubaina Himid Slavery Memory Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency...

... Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism ‘BETWEEN 1789 & 1815 WITH THE SINGLE EXCEPTION OF BONAPARTE HIMSELF, NO SINGLE FIGURE APPEARED ON THE HISTORICAL STAGE MORE GREATLY GIFTED THAN THIS MAN, A SLAVE UNTIL HE WAS 45’. So...

... Himid Slavery Memory Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism Plan B is a violent book by Chester Himes published posthumously in 1993, but I chose it for the title of a series of paintings made as a result...

... ‘transient temporary structures’ function as surrogate portraits of the vulnerabilities, violations and violences circumscribing Black memories, histories and narratives as defined by the histories and legacies of slavery, colonialism and empire. art world racism Black artists Black women Géricault...

... Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism ‘The French ship, Le Rodeur, with a crew of 22 men, and with 160 negro slaves, sailed from Bonny, in Africa, April, 1819’. ¹ So recounts Benjamin Constant...

... the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism Having trained as a theatre designer as long ago as the 1970s in London, my experience of this discipline still impacts on the work I make today. An important remnant is my fondness for making...

... Freedom the Body Representation Trauma violence activism agency resistance rebellion revolution radicalism HD: So much of your work is about re-seeing the past and recovering and celebrating lost voices. Do you see the artist as having a special role in recovering hidden histories...