The violence within: cultural and political opposition in divided nations

Abstract

Introduction - revealing conflicts across cultures and disciplines, Kay B. Warren interpreting La violencia in Guatemala - the many shapes of Mayan silence and resistance in the 1970s and 1980s, K.B. Warren culturalism versus cultural politics - the Movimento negro in the Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil 1970-1988, Michael Hanchard the politics of identity in a Palestinian village in Israel, Davida Wood religious networks and urban unrest - lessons from the Iranian and Egyptian experiences, Guilain Denoeux contested images and implications of South African nationhood, Anthony W. Marx democratic transitions and redistributive reforms - the Philippine case, Jeffrey M. Reidinger striking with hunger - the cultural meanings of political violence in Northern Ireland, Begona Aretxaga.