Logic Of Violence Research Articles

The logic of violence in the prisoner rebellion at the Alcaçuz Penitentiary/RN

The logic of violence in the prisoner rebellion at the Alcaçuz Penitentiary/RN

Voter Backlash and Elite Misperception: The Logic of Violence in Electoral Competition. By Steven C. Rosenzweig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 200p. $110.00 cloth.

Voter Backlash and Elite Misperception: The Logic of Violence in Electoral Competition. By Steven C. Rosenzweig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 200p. $110.00 cloth.

Resisting Paranoid Doctrines and Logic of Violence: A Saidian Literary Humanist Perspective on Selected South Asian Short Fictional Narratives

Resisting Paranoid Doctrines and Logic of Violence: A Saidian Literary Humanist Perspective on Selected South Asian Short Fictional Narratives

Guerrilla Protest: Understanding Social Movements from a Civil War Framework with the Case of Hong Kong 2019

ABSTRACT Protests could exhibit properties of an asymmetrical, nonconventional war when paramilitary police utilise counterinsurgency measures and decentralised protestors adopt guerrilla tactics. This study examines the structural characteristics of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the organisation of the police and protestors. Strategic challenges seen in civil wars emerged. Blurred frontlines and identification problems escalated violence for collaboration and control. The civil war theoretical framework explains the role of civilians, the logic of violence, and the realignment of social and economic life in prolonged protests. The resemblance of society at civil war suggests civilians were forced to take sides and participate.

Local agreements as a process: the example of local talks in Homs in Syria

ABSTRACT This article sets out why it is important to conceptualise local agreements as a process of talks that have a value in their own right rather than as a discrete event reached on a particular date. Throughout this process the terms of intermittently negotiated agreements are continuously shaped by two competing logics, the logic of violence and peace. Based on detailed empirical evidence covering six years of local talks in the city of Homs and its Al-Waer suburb, the article shows that even if an agreement is not reached, the mere process of local talks could lead to a steep reduction in the level of violence, fatalities and an improvement in the standard of living at a time when talks at higher level fail to deliver such results. The article also challenges the main methods of gathering empirical evidence about local peace agreements and discussed potential policy implications.

Out of Place, Out of Mind: Min(d)ing Race in Mad Studies Through a Metaphor of Spatiality


 
 
 This article examines the racial politics of Mad Studies in Canada through a metaphor of spatiality, underscoring the urgency of an antiracist Mad Studies paradigm. Drawing on critical race scholarship which situates “madness” as reliant on and informed by white supremacist and colonial logics of rationality and reason (Bruce 2017), I foreground claims made by critical race scholars of racialized madness as contingent on and informed by histories of slavery, genocide, and everyday realities of racism and racial violence which an anti-racist Mad Studies project must contend with. By locating the racialization of Mad Studies within a metaphor of spatiality, I heuristically problematize the “space” available for racialized subjects to re/claim madness within contemporary Mad Studies paradigms. I conclude that in failing to rigorously unpack the relations of race which undergird understandings of madness, and to challenge the presence of white supremacy in the Mad Studies discipline, scholars potentially perpetuate a colonial project of “othering” and consequentially maintain the systems of psychiatric violence they seek to undo. Centralizing race in Mad Studies exposes the workings of white supremacy in logics of violence against Mad people more broadly and is thus necessary to an anti-racist and anti- oppressive Mad Studies project.
 
 

Book review: Brendan Marsh, The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade

Book review: Brendan Marsh, <i>The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade</i>

The Logic of Violence in the Polish-Lithuanian Conflict, 1920–1923

AbstractThe article is devoted to violence that took place in the Polish-Lithuanian borderland after the Great War. Using the theoretical insights of Stathis Kalyvas (2006), the author explores violent actors, types, and the dynamics of violence in the conflict over the neutral zone between Poland and Lithuania between 1920 and 1923. The focus is on the experiences of civilians and the social impact of violence on the formation of their national identities. The author suggests that violent ways of nation making forced the local populace to adopt national identities to ensure their security, but the process of forced nationalization was limited and may have resulted in the emergence of indifference among certain groups of the population.

The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade. By Brendan Marsh (Routledge, 2020, 144pp, £120.00 hb)

The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade. By Brendan Marsh (Routledge, 2020, 144pp, £120.00 hb)

The Logic of Violence in Drug War

Drug traffickers sometimes share profits peacefully. Other times they fight. We propose a model to investigate this variation, focusing on the role of the state. Seizing illegal goods can paradoxically increase traffickers’ profits, and higher profits fuel violence. Killing kingpins makes crime bosses short-sighted, also fueling conflict. Only by targeting the most violent traffickers can the state reduce violence without increasing supply. These results help explain empirical patterns of violence in drug war, which is less studied than are interstate or civil war but often as deadly.

Brendan Marsh, The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade

Brendan Marsh, <i>The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade</i>

Eluding the Esculacho

The Police “Pacification” Unit (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora—UPP) program in Rio de Janeiro pledged to pacify both militarized police officers and the communities they patrolled: favelas occupied by armed drug traffickers. While the UPPs promoted a softer approach, police practices remained permeated with logics of violence. In understanding why, this article examines how an enduring “warrior ethos” influences the occupational culture of the police. I frame this warrior ethos by reference to notions of masculinity and honor both in the police culture and in the favela, and approach the warrior as a masculine performance. This masculinities perspective on the ways in which policing activities are framed and enacted provides important insights into why it was so difficult to change police attitudes and practices.

Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in southern Madagascar

Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology of violence and warfare, this paper explores strategies ‘from above’ in relation to the establishment and operation of the Rio Tinto QIT-Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite mine in southeast Madagascar. While QMM claims to be a responsible ‘green’ self-regulator and sustainable development actor, it has triggered serious social, environmental and legal conflicts since its inception, including allegations of a ‘double land grab’ to accommodate mining activities and compensatory biodiversity offsetting. We argue that ‘pacification’, theorised as a productive form of violence that works through the re-ordering of socio-nature, underwrites the forms of ‘security’, ‘stability’ and even ‘sustainability’ that facilitate multiple and overlapping strategies of value extraction in the territorial and extra-territorial spaces occupied by the QMM mine partnership. By situating these dynamics historically, we identify ways in which pacification draws upon sedimented and evolving logics of racialised violence to facilitate operations and silence opposition.

Gujarat under Narendra Modi: Sangh Terror, Failure of Governance and Complicity within the Judicial System

Ethnic violence in Gujarat in 2002 killed more than a thousand Muslims. Compiling data from various sources, we investigate variation across the first decade of the 21st century which witnessed the gradual rise of communalism in India. Analysis reveals the political logic of violence, as killing was less likely where the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the weakest, it was most severe where the party faced the greatest electoral competition. The BJP’s vote increased most in districts with the worst violence. Police officials in districts where violence was severe were more likely to be protected and promoted. In this period, illegal activities were praised and lawful acts were punished. People were burnt alive including women and infants. Religiously targeted attacks on the houses and colonies started the process of ghettoization of Muslims in Gujarat and across India. Therefore, several reports are also there of the “fake” encounters that happened under the garb of the current “Supreme Leaders” of India. The period of 2003-2007 saw murder of the dissenting voices and open violation of human rights, as reported by various agencies. The state agencies were continuously failing in investigating and reaching out on evidentiary conclusions, those who did, were implicated falsely in several cases. Therefore, the government purposely failed the judiciary on every occasion. Those were the times, one would never wish to be repeated, as there was constant fear of Sangh terror in the minds of the civilians, Muslims in particular.

Encountering the “Muslim”: Guantánamo Bay, Detainees, and Apprehensions of Violence

AbstractThis article focuses on the underlying sensorial entanglements that linger in spaces and moments of encounter between state violence and its targets. It argues that in Guantánamo Bay, these entanglements become routed through the bodies of the camp’s detainees, and they rely upon a particular reading of religion as being borne by bodies in such ways as to necessitate the use of specific techniques of detention and incapacitation. This discussion is framed using the notion of “apprehension,” in its affective and material forms, wherein perception, dread, and physical encounters in the camp unfold within a framing of Muslims as ontologically and materially distinct, and as being embodied in particular ways. In these processes of apprehension, the techniques and logics of violence deployed in the war on terror become further legitimated, and work reflexively to shape the ways in which the Muslim is known, encountered, and met with violence.

Violence and Vulnerability: Children’s Strategies and the Logic of Violence in Burundi

This study explores how children in conflict‐affected Burundi deal with violence in their everyday lives. Focusing on schools as a context in which children are prepared for further roles in society, child‐centred, qualitative and mixed‐methods research was conducted at 36 primary schools throughout Burundi. Findings reveal that children use a variety of strategies to deal with violence they encounter. These strategies reflect a learned ‘logic of violence’, matching dynamics of violence and vulnerability in society at large. Children’s strategies are ultimately aimed at reducing vulnerability to (future) violence and indicative of the omnipresence of violence and uncertainty in Burundi.

War Breaks Out

Abstract This article seeks to document and analyse violence affecting the provision of healthcare by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its intended beneficiaries in the early stage of the current civil war in South Sudan. Most NGO accounts and quantitative studies of violent attacks on healthcare tend to limit interpretation of their prime motives to the violation of international norms and deprivation of access to health services. Instead, we provide a detailed narrative, which contextualises violent incidents affecting healthcare, with regard for the dynamics of conflict in South Sudan as well as MSF’s operational decisions, and which combines and contrasts institutional and academic sources with direct testimonies from local MSF personnel and other residents. This approach offers greater insight not only into the circumstances and logics of violence but also into the concrete ways in which healthcare practices adapt in the face of attacks and how these may reveal and put to the test the reciprocal expectations binding international and local health practitioners in crisis situations.

Urban Dispositions of Violences. A Brief Panorama at Socio-Spatial Logics of Violence at Latin American City

Nowadays, when all the forms of violence have become something normal and they are part of our everyday life, mainly for the so-called developing countries, it is essential to inquire about everyday beliefs and practices, which enable coercive links or their invisibility. Dispositions are intellectual mechanisms that define trends of action for individuals in a given context and situation; they are based mainly on beliefs and the characteristics of the socio-spatial context. This analysis discusses the question: what are dispositions that legitimize and promote the segregated city? Our thinking is based on a review of several studies, and empirical research on the peripheral and central public spaces in large cities, especially some recent research on violence in the outskirts of Mexico City. In other words, we intend to examine it from the point of view of the groups that suffer most from the violence. But mainly it is about proposing an examination of our preferences and desires to inhabit cities in search of the mechanisms that protect us from discomfort, but which, at the same time, tend to harbour the seeds of human violence.

Oral poetry of the Andes and Amazonia

In the essay I propose to give an account of an ancestral corpus, although new in its outline, since it involves the appearance of the indigenous as a subject of enunciation. I will stop at the abduction of writing as a new process and I propose to focus our attention on the word-voice that is not reduced to the wordletter steed. This does not require alphabetic writing, we find it in various forms and it allows us to express what a culture wants to transmit: I think of the kené [1], expressions of the Shipibo-conibo design or the payllay among the Quechua that explains that they want to communicate, amen of the still indecipherable quipus [2] Andean [3]. These same can be found in facial designs, without forgetting that the body itself is a form of language. The lecture that I will do implies the presence of several systems. I suggest that the current corpus of indigenous literatures accounts for an oral poetics that explains them, rooted in the updated memory of the ancestors and expressed in their activities (daily, traditional, rituals, cycles and seasonal periods, etc.). I support it in the people-culture pair that is based on history and accounts for a demonstration, whose historical reference will be the “long duration”. It is not reduced, therefore, to the candid writing/orality opposition, but to a dynamic relationship between word-voice, brand, sign or trace, body designs, etc. These poetics correspond to the domain of the word, so the orality of which we speak involves the continuity of an expression that writing does not always show in its linear capture, with respect to the autonomy and the confluence of the different forms that are produced in the event. True, they are accusing a new scenario that has to do with the modern abduction of writing. In the same sense, I will dwell on the logic of violence that embodied the presence of the old stranger (conqueror, Spanish or Portuguese) who now lives in that colonized mixture of our being. At the same time, it implies a look with respect to the European ego that constitutes the disseminator of modernity. Impossible to explain it, if we do not include in our agenda a reflection on territory and dispossession.

Insurgent Peace: Community-Led Peacebuilding of Indigenous Peoples in Sagada, Philippines

ABSTRACT In a global era when most wars are fought between state and non-state actors, how do people make peace? This article examines the processes through which civilian communities imagine and build peace during a prolonged active armed conflict. It presents a case of a demilitarized community—popularly understood as a peace zone—of the indigenous peoples community of the Municipality of Sagada in the Philippines in the context of 50 years of armed conflict between the Philippine state and the New People’s Army (NPA), a rebel group waging a Maoist-inspired insurgency. For 30 years, the indigenous community of Sagada has effectively regulated military and rebel operations and prevented conflict-related civilian deaths and internal displacement. While existing research identifies Sagada as a pioneer model of the phenomenon of peace zones in the world, we know very little of the community work that sustains this model. Situated within the “local turn” in peacebuilding literature and emergent field of peace geographies, this article examines the kind of work required from a civilian community to protect their lives during conflict, and what this tell us about peace. I use the term insurgent peace to refer to peace as dynamic processes rooted upon a refusal and disruption of the spatial logics of violence imposed by the competing structures of power of state and non-state armed actors upon civilian communities. Further, insurgent peace captures the quotidian work of civilian communities in carving alternative political spaces and enacting peaceful futures during armed conflict.