Nature Of Violence Research Articles

Investigating the Impact of PUBG on Academic Performance and Mental Health among Pakistani Teenagers

The PUBG game holds widespread popularity among Pakistani teenagers; however, concerns have surfaced regarding its potential impact on academic achievement and mental health. Prolonged play may result in migraines, eye strain, and back pain, while violent games could potentially influence harsh speech patterns in young individuals. The decision to ban PUBG has attracted attention due to its perceived violent nature. This research aims to ascertain PUBG's detrimental effects on students' academic performance in Pakistan and seeks to find interventions for addressing PUBG addiction. A quantitative study in Pakistan, with a sample size of 100 responders, aims to assess the game's effects on students' emotions and behavior. Thematic analysis, utilizing an interview guide, will be the final analytical strategy employed in this study.

The intellectualisation and categorisation of early modern fencing

ABSTRACT This paper traces the changes to the intellectual classification of fencing. The authors of fencing treatises attempted to shift the perception of fencing from its long held violent connotations and towards a more elevated and legitimate practice. This change was prompted by multiple factors, key amongst them were the proliferation of print, the rise of the duel, and courtesy books, such as Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. These factors allowed fencing to be reconceived with new methods and to reach a wider audience. However, to appeal to a larger and increasingly educated audience, early modern fencing treatises adopted new pedagogical tools and made efforts to legitimise fencing, elevating their new methods above fencing’s violent nature. To achieve this elevation, authors of fencing treatises attempted to raise fencing’s intellectual standing through the application of the trivium and later geometry and humanistic learning, in order to reposition fencing as a practice worthy of gentlemanly study. In this paper, I outline the process of this change and argue that, despite concerted effort to intellectualise fencing, as a means to obtain legitimacy, attempts were never wholly successful, due to an inability to completely separate conceptions of violence from the new science.

Patriarchal backlash: Representations of sexual violence on Uruguayan TV

The article investigates the tensions between feminist conceptualizations of sexual violence and the persistence of patriarchal discourses that challenge it resulting in a justification of violence and misogynistic representations in a Uruguayan TV program. We argue that the return of conservative discourses that question sexual harassment accusations, reinstate gender differences, and gender inequality by installing a new normativity and naturalization of violence against women. Through the analysis of representations, evaluations, and discourse strategies deployed in two episodes of a high rating debate TV show centered on sexual violence, we show the victims are not recognized as such. There is a recontextualization of the sexual violence situation by which participants in the TV show challenge the policies and practices that have been recently established to prevent and sanction sexual violence. The findings evidence certain cultural transformations in the threshold of moral sensibility that define what is acceptable or not and make visible a patriarchal backlash.

‘Pioneers of culture’: Australian natural history and the German colonial imaginary

ABSTRACT Many contemporary efforts to attend to the coloniality of nineteenth-century natural collections rely on the reconceptualization of items held in these collections as cultural belongings. After describing the significance of this development, the article seeks to complicate the hope invested in ‘culture’ in this particular context. It argues that it resonates rather strangely, at least with the German historical record, where a particular understanding of natural history as performing the work of culture was articulated at precisely the time these collections were being made. With a particular focus on what nineteenth-century German-language publications wrote about Richard Schomburgk, a Prussian-trained naturalist and long-time director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, it analyses how German-speaking actors moving within British colonial networks were framed as ‘pioneers of culture’. The article argues that the figure of the ‘pioneer of culture’ embodied a German investment, real and imagined, in Anglophone settler colonialism; that it helped to describe natural history collecting as central rather than peripheral to this colonial imaginary; and that it denoted a wilful refusal to acknowledge the violent nature of both enterprises.

“with my love”: the colonial legacy of racialized pedophilic pornography in the atlantic world

This essay provides a critical analysis of early-20th-century American postcards, focusing on the portrayal of black and white children as an aesthetic tool of white supremacy and pedophilic racist pleasures. These representations not only reflected but also perpetuated colonial ideologies and racial stereotypes, directly influencing educational practices and policies, and contributing to a social environment where discrimination and sexualization of children was normalized. The article begins with the contrast in the depiction of white and black children, revealing a pattern in which white children were often fetishized as embodiments of innocence and purity, while black children were subjected to pornified portrayals that reinforced negative stereotypes and sought to ensure the continued intergenerational subjugation of African Americans in the afterlife of slavery. A significant aspect of this analysis delves into the role of the zealous purity crusader Anthony Comstock in shaping societal views on childhood innocence and obscenity during the Progressive Era. As a U.S. postal inspector, Comstock wielded influence over public discourse and policy, particularly through his campaigns against the distribution of what he considered morally objectionable representations. This examination extends to the racial implications of Comstock’s adult-centric actions, exploring how they contributed to the differential treatment of black and white children in both media representations and broader societal contexts. The article argues that these images were not merely passive reflections of societal beliefs; rather, they were active tools used to shape and influence the educational and socialization processes of children, and they contributed to the perpetuation of Jim Crow violence, which was manifested through the sexual assault, castration, and lynching of black youth. Furthermore, this essay examines the broader socio-historical context in which racist and pedophilic images were produced and circulated. These postcards are still trafficked today under the false designation of ‘Black Memorabilia,’ reaching significant prices as vintage collector’s items, but the article reframes them as a genre of child pornography. This perspective critically challenges prevailing narratives that may sanitize or downplay the exploitative and violent nature of these images. This essay urges a reconsideration of these consumer items’ historical significance as instruments intricately complicit in sustaining colonial structures and ideologies surrounding childhood innocence in North America. Within this analytical framework, the dehumanization of black children through pedophilic pornography reflects a long heritage of anti-child violence in Western traditions and the colonial strategy of exploiting children of color as a lucrative mechanism for profit and libidinal pleasure.

Examining gay male discursive practices in hook-up apps

Abstract Whilst there is a growing body of literature on the normalisation of abuse in youth digital sexual image exchange (Ringrose, Regehr & Whitehead 2021), mediated intimacies and sexual harms among men who have sex with men (MSM) in online contexts still remain largely neglected (Dietzel 2021). The present study builds on Russell’s (2021) study on male discursive practices and investigates sexual and gendered ideologies in 600 online dating profiles gathered from Grindr and Wapo. The discourse analysis of these profiles, on the one hand, sheds light on the existing violent nature of gay Alpha imaginaries in the short-term sexual encounters that these dating apps facilitate and, on the other hand, gives evidence of how discourses of hegemonic heteronormativity, and rape culture, seem to inform MSMs dating app profiles.

Unbridled Imagination and Imperturbable Logic

The Theatre du Grande Guignol was in operation between 1897 and 1962; during its tenure, it provided entertainment to the Parisian masses. This paper seeks to prove that the violent entertainment shown in the Theatre du Grand Guignol epitomizes a microcosm of the broader historical, technological, and theatrical changes during its 65 years in operation. Through primary source documents, such as the plays being performed, and secondary sources, such as French historical documents, this analysis consolidates these informative texts to understand the bigger picture of the Theatre in the grander context of human experience. The violent nature being represented on the stage of the Guignol soon reflected the brutal nature of World War Two, thus blurring the lines between fact and fiction, art and life, imagination and reality. This opens up a discussion on the essence of humanity and its ensuing effect on the entertainment industry leading into the modern day, and the enduring macabre fascination with gruesome spectacle.

Brazilian-Style Feminicide: Memorialistic Narratives as a Method in Colonial Heritage Data Collection

This paper presents the result of partial research that investigates how the colonial heritages present in Brazilian History and their structural reverberations impact the region context of feminicide in the State of Minas Gerais, outlining a Brazilian reality. Considering the existence of concrete difficulties to hear women who suffer feminicide attempts, based on the memorialistic narratives of women who suffered feminicide attempts, such as the lack of security due to death threats to which they are subjected, this sample counts with a number of fifteen women heard in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, appointed by a non-governmental organization that operates in the region, on the combat gender violence. As a data collection technique, it has been chosen the memorialistics narratives because they allow us a more careful way to approach traumatic scenes. In this article, specific, it was analyzed the cases of four of these women with the aim of demonstrate, through the interface between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and decolonial thinkers, that studies the Afro-Latin American feminism, how violence against these women reveals in their bodies (sometimes, Black) the emergence of a territory to be invade, explored, dominated, and annihilated. It is expected to demonstrate, in the cases presented and through the chosen methodology, the effects of the State´s transgeneratinality and impunity on the naturalization of violence and domination.

Black Woman Victimhood: An Intersectional Analysis of Meg Thee Stallion’s Testimony

The violent nature of Hip-Hop culture in tandem with racial injustice and sexism leaves Black women victims of Black male perpetrators feeling unheard, unprotected and conflicted. It is known that Black women are experiencing more domestic violence than their white counterparts yet reporting it less out of fear of prejudices and stereotyping. In this study, I engage in an intersectional textual analysis of rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s telling of violence enacted upon her by rapper Tory Lanez in 2020. Hip-hop concepts of violence and snitching, expectations about black womanhood, and issues of police brutality were all prominent themes of her storytelling. The analysis indicates that Black women who are domestic violence victims grapple with protecting the men of their community, protecting themselves from police, and endure doubt and criticism for speaking their truth.

Beyond Xenophobia: Unravelling Violent Crimes Committed by Foreign Offenders in South Africa

South Africa’s crime rate has propelled it into a realm comparable to war-torn nations. Amid the extensive discourse surrounding the interplay between foreign nationals and criminal activity, scholarly attention directed towards this complex relationship remains limited. While academia has extensively examined migration and immigration dynamics, South African research concerning foreign nationals has been notably overshadowed by the presence of xenophobia. Through a qualitative inquiry, in-depth and face-to-face interviews were held with 40 African and Asian offenders. The paper makes an empirical contribution to academic discourse by revealing the violent nature of crimes committed by foreign offenders in South Africa.

A Study on Nature of Violence Against Doctors in Tertiary Care Centers in Karnataka, India: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Over the previous decades, violence against physicians has risen. To comprehend the issue connected with it, we need to know the nature of violence and doctor's views on the current state of safety at their disposal. The purpose of the study was to assess the incidence and nature of violence against doctors in tertiary health care centers in Karnataka, India. The objectives were to collect data from three tertiary care centers, evaluate the incidence of violence against doctors in tertiary care centers, and evaluate the nature of violence against doctors in tertiary care centers. From the list of all tertiary care centers in Dakshina Kannada, three tertiary care hospitals were randomly chosen. Approval of the Ethical Committee from the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) of KVG Dental College and permission from chosen hospitals were obtained. A pre-validated questionnaire was handed over to the available physicians and surgeons in these hospitals to be filled. The total number of participants in the study was 330. Nearly half (48.02% of physicians) reported experiencing violence during working hours. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology recorded 43.2% of instances, while surgery, medicine, and other departments reported 23.6%, 22.8%, and 10.4%, respectively. Violence against physicians continues to be a huge issue that must be addressed through decisive measures by the police and hospitals. This impacts the healthcare system in the nation and often cripples it owing to the loss of human resources and working hours.

Evidence-Based Reconstruction of Memories of a Disdainful Hookup: Identifying Risk Factors and Preventing Further Victimization.

Autobiographical memories of close relationships have been shown to have strong influence in health and life. Yet, there is no research published about longitudinal memory reconstruction of violent sporadic relationships while reading and discussing scientific evidence on gender violence victimization. This article presents a novel case of the reconstruction throughout time of the memory of a disdainful hookup experienced by a young woman. The victim's diary and an interview were the sources of data collection. The analytical categories were developed in dialogue with the participant. The results indicate that, as the subject learned scientific evidence on gender violence in sporadic relationships, she progressively recalled details of the episode that she had self-censored before, became aware of the very violent nature of the hookup, rejected the relationship, and freed her desire for satisfactory romantic relationships.

The metaverse of violence.

The metaverse appears to be a composite concept and a complex environment from an ontological perspective and from a purely dimensional point of view. Exploring its defining features not only allows one to identify the nature and effects of the social relations existing therein, but also influences the legal reading of what it contains and produces. Bringing to light the peculiar characteristics of the metaverse-for which the dichotomy between "real" and "virtual" sounds outdated-this article emphasizes the urgency to rethink the traditional forms of interpretation and design of preventive and repressive measures to counter deviant and illegal phenomena of a violent nature.

When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea

AbstractAlthough legislative brawling is a common occurrence—with 365 cases reported across the world between 1990 and 2018—we have a limited understanding of why members of representative bodies engage in violence. Does the lack of institutionalization or the violent nature of some legislators cause such behavior? This article argues that legislators with intense policy preferences engage in costly actions, such as brawling, as a means of signaling their policy commitment. To validate this claim, this article examines legislators' participation in legislative brawling and filibusters in Korea before and after the adoption of a filibuster procedure. I find that extreme members engaged in brawling before the adoption of procedural reform, while they engaged in filibusters after the adoption. This transformation of brawlers into filibusterers suggests that legislative brawling does not necessarily indicate a violent nature of some legislators but rather a desire by legislators to signal their policy commitments.

The political consequences of the end of nationalist violence: the Basque Country and Corsica in comparative perspective

The political consequences of the end of nationalist violence: the Basque Country and Corsica in comparative perspective

Experimental and numerical investigation of a small scale storm sewer geyser

The violent nature of storm sewer geysers has been puzzling researchers worldwide for a very long time. This paper investigates the geyser simulation methodology using a small-scale set-up, where important flow structures such as slugs, eruption patterns, and pressure oscillations are compared with experimental results to test the fidelity of the numerical modelling. In this exercise, a geyser-like process is produced using a continuous insertion of air in the horizontal pipe. The established methodology is used to simulate the hypothesized scenario of a finite trapped air pocket in the relatively longer pipe system. A geyser produced from a finitely trapped air pocket shows a different eruption mechanism compared to those found in previous studies. First, no slug is observed in the horizontal pipe, resulting in continuous air release. Second, the interface continuously atomizes in the vertical pipe, creating a churn-slug flow that produces a large number of small eruptions.

Woman, Water, Freedom

Countermapping the conflict between hydrological interventions and women’s water literacy in the Khuzestan Region since the mid-twentieth century, this essay reveals the violent nature of hydrological paternalism across times and political regimes. Under the androcentric realm of colonial representations, resource development projects, Western modernizing missions, state violence, and financial strangulation by international economic sanctions, the multifaceted nature of women’s resistance against territorial dispossessions and the violence unleashed on women and waterbodies is at the center of the current struggles for social and environmental justice. Demystifying these historical entanglements makes the case for the rematriation of rivers as a necessary step in the transborder and crosscultural process of decolonization and feminist liberation.

The intimate geopolitics of evidence gathering in war crime investigation in Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine illustrates the increasingly judicialized nature of international relations and geopolitics. By viewing aspects of the invasion as illegal – in particular through the identification of war crimes and crimes against humanity – the international response draws attention to the political geographies of international criminal investigation. Human rights groups, academics, journalists, and open-source forensic investigations have joined forces to collect, evaluate and analyze the violent nature of war crimes. While similar shifts in evidence gathering have been observed in the case of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war and the Assad regime's violence against Syrian citizens, the use of evidence-gathering technologies and evidence-securing institutions in the case of Ukraine is distinctive. In this scholarly intervention we seek to illustrate the intimate geopolitics of evidence gathering by zooming in on two different elements that shape evidential procedures in Ukraine: i) the blurring of civilian/military boundaries; and ii) the challenges of access. By evaluating what is new and what is similar to previous war sites, we suggest that these two areas reflect a geopolitics of evidence gathering, highlighting its global-local intimacies. Both these areas are well positioned to foster new research on the (geo)legal nature of war crimes in political geography and beyond.

Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida: On Violence, Law and Justice

The present text is the second part of the article published in the previous issue of the journal. If in the initial section Kafka’s parable “Before the Law” was considered from the philosophical thinking of Walter Benjamin, on the one hand, from Talmudic categories, and on the other hand, from the perspective of the violent nature of law, in the subsequent section the parable will be deconstructed by Derrida, on the one hand, through a quasi-psychoanalytical reading and utilizing Freudian concepts, and on the other hand, by investigating the relationship between law and justice as the aporetic experience between the universal and the singular.

АКСИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ И СТРУКТУРНО-СОДЕРЖАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПОДХОДЫ К ПОНИМАНИЮ И УСТАНОВЛЕНИЮ ОБЪЕКТА ИНЫХ НАСИЛЬСТВЕННЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ СЕКСУАЛЬНОГО ХАРАКТЕРА

The article draws attention to the debatable nature of the issue of the complex structure of the object of other violent acts of a sexual nature (Article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), taking into account the features of which will reduce the number of errors in the legal assessment of such acts. An open list of acts forming the objective side of other acts of a violent nature puts law enforcement officers in a difficult position, does not serve the uniformity of judicial practice, can lead to accusatory evasion and violation of the rights of both persons brought to criminal responsibility and those who have suffered. The authors use doctrinal studies devoted to the object of the crime, including multi-object crimes, encroachments against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of the individual and current judicial practice. It is stated that the establishment of the object of other violent acts of a sexual nature from the traditional positions of dividing them “horizontally” does not always allow to establish the object and the objective side of the crime under consideration. In order to understand the objective signs of the act in question and to distinguish it from related crimes, the authors believe, it justifies a comprehensive approach to establishing the object of other violent acts of a sexual nature, namely from the standpoint of a content-structural approach (i. e., taking into account the vertical-horizontal classification of objects) and axiological, “responsible” for the value content of protected goods.