The Age Of Violence
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The Age Of Violence
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Author : Alain Bertho
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2018-10-02
The Age Of Violence written by Alain Bertho and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Social Science categories.
Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives "Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the 'radicalization of' Islam'? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe? For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states' legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities. Today's youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.
The Gold Cannon
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Author : Robert Vanderzee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12-31
The Gold Cannon written by Robert Vanderzee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-31 with categories.
Benign Violence Education In And Beyond The Age Of Reason
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Author : Ansgar Allen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Benign Violence Education In And Beyond The Age Of Reason written by Ansgar Allen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Education categories.
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good. Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason is designed to disturb the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel against our educational present must begin by objecting to the subjects we have become.
Our Extractive Age
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Author : Judith Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Our Extractive Age written by Judith Shapiro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments, protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent, invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of "green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies. Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, political ecology, sustainable development, and globalization.
Violence All Around
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Author : John Sifton
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015
Violence All Around written by John Sifton and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe before and after 9/11 to document abuses by warlords, terrorists, and counterterrorism forces. John Sifton reminds us that human rights advocates can only shame the world into better behavior; to invoke rights is to invoke the force to uphold them, including the very violence they deplore.
Atrocity Exhibition
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Author : Brad Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-19
Atrocity Exhibition written by Brad Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with History categories.
Writings from the foremost chronicler of violence in our times, a fundamental issue for the future of the human race, looked at from every angle.
Tender Violence
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Author : Laura Wexler
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2000
Tender Violence written by Laura Wexler and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Photography categories.
Examines the work of such female photojournalists as Alice Austen, Jessie Tarbox Beals, and Frances Benjamin Johnston, arguing that they produced images that helped to reinforce the imperialistic ideals that were forming at the beginning of the 20th century.
Violence At Sea
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Author : Peter Lehr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-02
Violence At Sea written by Peter Lehr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with Political Science categories.
Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat. The essays analyze piracy activities in key shipping lanes (including the African coast, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Straits of Malacca-South China Sea); piratical groups and their capabilities; case studies on overlaps between piracy, terrorism, and organized crime; legal and policy hurdles to combating piracy; tactical recommendations for combating piracy; and new trends and developments in the area. The counter response to maritime terrorism has been slow in coming, hampered by issues rooted in sovereignty, the laws of the sea, and the inherent challenges of international coordination. Yet given the likelihood that threats posed by piracy will not recede, but rather increase, all actors affected by maritime security will, sooner or later, need to address these challenges.
Flannery O Connor In The Age Of Terrorism
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Author : Avis Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2010-07-28
Flannery O Connor In The Age Of Terrorism written by Avis Hewitt and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a “time of terror.” The first major critical volume on Flannery O’Connor’s work in more than a decade, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism explores issues of violence, evil, and terror—themes that were never far from O’Connor’s reach and that seem particularly relevant to our present-day setting. The fifteen essays collected here offer a wide range of perspectives that explore our changing views of violence in a post-9/11 world and inform our understanding of a writer whose fiction abounds in violence. Written by both established and emerging scholars, the pieces that editors Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo have selected offer a compelling and varied picture of this iconic author and her work. Included are comparisons of O’Connor to 1950s writers of noir literature and to the contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy; cultural studies that draw on horror comics of the Cold War and on Fordism and the American mythos of the automobile; and pieces that shed new light on O’Connor’s complex religious sensibility and its role in her work. While continuing to speak fresh truths about her own time, O’Connor’s fiction also resonates deeply with the postmodern sensibilities of audiences increasingly distant from her era—readers absorbed in their own terrors and sense of looming, ineffable threats. This provocative new collection presents O’Connor’s work as a touchstone for understanding where our culture has been and where we are now. With its diverse approaches, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism will prove useful not only to scholars and students of literature but to anyone interested in history, popular culture, theology, and reflective writing.
The Age Of Wild Ghosts
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Author : Erik Mueggler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-04-09
The Age Of Wild Ghosts written by Erik Mueggler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-09 with Social Science categories.
Annotation. Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system.