...This chapter focuses on the problem of dowry to explore its present-day ramifications. It highlights a problem that is in sharp contrast to the ‘image’ of Orissan society being relatively free from violence and major conflicts, with communal riots (as exemplified in the case of Kandhamal) being...

... National Land War Maamtrasna Murders ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ John Keats Parnell Charles Stewart Phoenix Park Murders Plantation of Ulster poetry romanticism The ‘Troubles’ Unionism Fenianism The Invincibles sectarianism violence Davitt Michael Irish Republican Brotherhood The ‘New Departure...

... and is captured in the number of themes explored including the proliferation of poverty, crime and violence agency, a lack of female and agency and ultimately blaming the black communities for the problems the show exaggerates. Babyfather BBC British Broadcasting Corporation Bennett Ronan Channel drugs...

...-border highway. Some of these stories are well known to a lot of Gjirokastrits and were repeated many times during my stay there. They are tales of car crashes, supernatural events, assassinations which occurred on the motorway during the violence of 1997 and of the ‘dangerous’ inhabitants of Lazarati...

... the Western Sahara. However, the Libyan crisis has forced direct Algerian intervention and pushed the country into reluctant engagement with Western paradigms of confronting non-state terrorism and violence. Algeria Violence Extremism Residual Terrorism France 273 The independent Algerian state was born...

... relationship with the term, as both a perceived victim and perpetrator, and focusses on the application of political violence against both dissidents and political opponents where the term 'terror' is used in Persian as a synonym for assassination. The paper looks at the various justifications for the use...

... by the killers to conceal their past deeds. However, we also seek to develop a better understanding of violence within Uruguayan social and political life: for, while the country’s dictatorship only lasted around ten years (between 1973 and 1984), political violence had already begun in the 1960s in the context...

... and biopolitics Foucault Michel Majdanek camp ‘Operation 1005’ Traverso Enzo Algeria Esposito Robert Indochina Topf & Söhne company Agamben Giorgio Douglas Mary funerary rituals sorting of corpses Genocide Mass violence Disposal, Dead bodies Concealment Atrocities Cadaver Ideologies Social...

... and incorporates some of its features and, even, some images, in game design. The settings, shocks, monsters and graphic violence of games provide grounds for condemnation. Phantasmagoria did simply present terrifying images and evoke shocking effects with greater immediacy than Gothic fiction in a spectacular...

... reveals that armed actions rose sharply between 1977 and 1978 and that the proportion of armed actions involving personal violence rose as the frequency of actions increased, then rose again as the overall frequency declined. Tarrow Sidney Autoriduzione Brigate Rosse BR Movement of 1977 Prima Linea PL...

...), Continuity IRA (CIRA) and Real (RIRA) Militant republican groups that continue to advocate the legitimacy of armed struggle operate far below the capabilities of the PIRA, but have developed a limited campaign of violence where attacks are localised and targets are more specific. This chapter will focus...

.... As this chapter outlines, Krishnavarma scorned the passivity of India’s moderate nationalists in favour of violent opposition to British rule, yet he also avoided the spiritualism and romantic attachment to violence of many of India’s ‘extremist’ leaders. Krishnavarma turned, instead, to the social theory...

... in and approved of. The ancient Greeks invoked a range of justifications for their actions in order to persuade themselves and others to overlook any ties of kinship or any formal agreements that had been made with their erstwhile foes. Internal differences about whether violence was the right option, or even...

...This introductory chapter tries to form a set of themes and a broad body of literature which could be creatively used to study the alternative accounts of contemporary violence in the study of international relations. It examines the work of scholars concerned with meaning in international...

...This book draws on several years of field research, as well as hermeneutic global politics and analysis of empirical source material, in order to shed light on contemporary violence. Drawing on interpretive approaches to international relations, the book argues that founding events and multiple...

...This chapter examines settlers’ dedication to corporal punishment and a racially-biased legal system as props to their status as a ruling race. As philosophers and historians of pain and violence have shown, the neurological sensations resulting from corporal punishment are usually of secondary...

... violence (and that explanation should be distinguished from justification). It also provides a brief overview of the course of academic analysis of paramilitary loyalism since the onset of the Troubles, offers some explanations for the chosen scope of the study and a very brief overview of the ethnographic...

...This chapter concentrates on cases of violence within cohabiting families. It is shown that the motives for violence were sexual jealousy and money squabbles. Judges and coroners castigated violent men even when their partners were drunk or worked as prostitutes. The courts were most sympathetic...

.... These pillars of security discussions in IR include: 1) defining the concept of security, 2) the anarchical international system, 3) the state of nature, 4) the sovereign state and 5) threats and vulnerabilities. The DSP shapes, moulds and changes politics such that political violence is reproduced by the very...

...-historical tropes – such as hypersexualisation, anti-domesticity, violence – this essay also examines context- and media-specific elements of representation. Additionally, the introduction serves to define ‘werewolf’ and to give a summary of the ways in which this creature has been (mis)read in both...