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Published: 10 August 2021
..., dating back to the medieval custom of granting church refuge to fugitives. During the 1980s, US congregations declared themselves sanctuaries for Salvadorans and Guatemalans fleeing political violence, death squads and civil war in Central America. Drawing on ethnographic engagement with the 1980s...
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A Taxonomy of Political Violence
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Amory Starr and others
Published: 12 September 2011
..., culture, and history. In the end, the chapter concludes with a strong proposal regarding the meaning of political violence. biopower fence networks as a dimension of social movements resource mobilization space criminalization identity public relations targeting technologies of the self...
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Antirepression: Resisting the Social Control of Dissent
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Amory Starr and others
Published: 12 September 2011
... develop technologies of education, solidarity, communal institutions, and culture to thwart and recover from political violence. Their methods range from legal collectives that work to teach people their rights and help people with criminal charges, to art projects intended to draw attention...
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The Violent Underpinnings of American Life: How Violence Maintains Social Order in the US
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Liam Downey
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 03 October 2023
... Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory, which focused sustained national attention on sexual violence against women and police and political violence against African Americans. This book taps into these scholarly interests and national trends in two key ways. First, it highlights the role...
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Published online: 24 March 2016
Published in print: 15 December 2009
...Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have taken shape, and as hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced...
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Conspiracy’s Discontents: Prevention and False Positives After September 11
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Peter Margulies
Published: 26 April 2010
... conspiracy and anti-terror prosecution as an extension of legal detours in government, along with the dangers of using conspiracy as a weapon against terrorism and political violence. It also explains how conspiracy charges can improve public safety while respecting civil liberties, with particular emphasis...
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Published: 03 October 2023
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