Peace, culture, and violence /
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2018] |
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| Description: | xi, 282 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series ; volume 316. Philosophy of peace Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of peace. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11538172 |
Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. A Critique of Thug Culture
- 2. The Role of Language in Justifying and Eliminating Cultural Violence
- 3. Getting at the "Root Cause": Why a "Culture of Violence" is the Wrong Place to Focus
- 4. Cultural Violence, Hegemony, and Agonistic Interventions
- 5. Two Semites Confront Anti-Semitism: On the Varities of Anti-Semitic Experience
- 6. The War on Drugs as Harm to Persons: Cultural Violence as Symbol and Justification
- 7. Terrorism and the Necessity of Oppositional Clarification in the "War" Against It
- 8. Just War Perspectives on Police Violence
- 9. Cultural Violence and Gender Injustice in Africa: The Necessity for Enlightened Self-Interest
- 10. War is America's Altar: Violence in the American Imagination
- 11. Michel Foucault's Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New Philosophical Anthropology
- 12. Toward a New Conception of Socially-Just Peace
- Index
