.... Ultimately, this chapter shows how Melville’s collective circles imagine new democratic sovereignties that offer fragile but recurrent alternatives to founding violence and sovereign exception. Arendt Hannah French Revolution Paine Thomas The Rights of Man Paine Roundness of democracy Sieyès Emanuel...

...This chapter shows a strong, significant association between a school's disciplinary climate and student achievement in Israel. Test scores are negatively associated with principals' reports of students' engagement and teachers' reports of classroom discipline. Reports of violence among students...

... in Poshan due to an administrative anomaly). The fierce electoral competition in the two townships, leading to vote buying, violence and, in one case, murder, highlights the ruthlessness of local competition over access to state power and resources. The story of the township elections, which I observed...

...This book explores violence, coercion, crime, and insecurity in Mexico in the context of post-revolutionary state-making, state power, and politics. It argues that the theory of Mexican exceptionalism has hindered a concerted, systematic study of violence and coercion, not only during the last...

... forms of violence, including political violence. The highly contentious “police question,” political policing, and the unparalleled extent of police corruption and impunity existing in Mexico can be traced to the 1910 revolution and its aftermath. This chapter explores the interconnections...

...A wave of violence associated with drug trafficking is taking place in Mexico. Illicit drug trade has been in Mexico for almost 100 years, dating to the Porfiriato when cross-border trade increased dramatically and U.S. demand for narcotics was very high. This chapter examines organized crime...

... are godly but because they have not been pronounced by one single authority. Antigone's is the rule of law; Creon's is the rule of men. Both characters expose two disparate forms of regulating internal violence. Antigone bare life in Artemis Bernadete Seth Castoriadis Cornelius Community Antigone...

...—it “thinks through” the exception by which power transforms transgression into norm, and it links this transformation to the sealing of a social pact. Violence, in this transformation, becomes political: just as in Antigone, this violence does not dominate, it rather annihilates. 120 Days of Sodom assembly...

...This book exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat...

... of the television era. The media-promoted and politician-massaged concern about rising crime rates was a transatlantic phenomenon. CBS put together a conference of social scientists to assess “ways and means of securing realistic estimates of the different effects of exposure to television violence” in 1969...

... resorted to violence as a way to solve their gender-rooted disputes with unprotected women. This chapter argues that the violence against women represented a form of cultural coercion designed to ensure the continuation of a patriarchal order. Cantadoras female popular poets Cantadores male popular poets...

... is the institutionalization of clientelism as a dominant linkage between citizens and the state. And third is the use of violence as an extension of political competition, a response to threats against the established political order, and a tool for varied armed actors to defend and expand territorial control. By tracing...

..., such as the transformations brought about by the feminist movement. This chapter also examines why men hit their wives (i.e. intimate partner violence) and reflects on men's jealousy and insecurity. It identifies the contradictions in the state's understanding of gender and gender proficiency, analyzes the “girl in jeans...

...Crime victims experience the consequences of crime directly in the form of physical injury, emotional trauma, and lost property. This chapter examines two particular consequences of crime: physical violence and monetary damages. It studies the connection between criminal actions, extraction of loot...

...The introduction offers an overview of the geographical and chronological scope of the violence before setting these events within existing scholarship on antisemitism, Habsburg and Polish history, and the history of violence in central Europe around 1900. Although these events have been largely...

...This book focuses on the campus violence that rocked Stanford University in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Stanford's experience in those years was comparable to that of other universities, especially the elite ones, but the troubles it had to endure did not attract as much attention as Harvard...

... of important questions, such as whether federal funds would be withheld upon accusations. Meanwhile, campus violence intensified in the spring of 1970. That very same year, Kenneth S. Pitzer resigned as president of Stanford. Broyhill James U S Housing Education and Welfare amendments Lyman Richard Wall...

...” in ways that are more inclusive, less focused on ownership and authority and more on acts of hospitality. Although the strategies, operations, and analyses considered in this book certainly do not give clear-cut solutions or put an end to the violence against others in the name of civilization, liberalism...

... but also on a wide array of legal texts and manuals widely used and cited in their decisions by contemporary justice officials. It looks too at legal customs and traditions. This is critical since the historical rise in domestic violence has been attributed to factors such as the reluctance of the state...

..., whose authority the state sought to diminish, were empowered. The tribal militia left a lasting impact on the region and on state–society and Kurdish–Turkish relations. Putting a human face on Ottoman-Kurdish histories while also addressing issues of state-building, local power dynamics, violence...