Place Of Violence Research Articles

Associated factors with death among young women exposed to intimate partner violence in Brazil

Abstract Objective The objective of this study was to identify associated factors with death among young women exposed to intimate partner violence in Brazil. Methods Case-control study used a linked database containing nearly 800,000 violence against women notifications in Notifiable Diseases Information System over the period 2011 to 2016 and 16,200 deaths over the period 2011 and September/2017. Cases were women from 15 to 29 years old with notification of violence by an current or former intimate partner and death for any basic cause. Controls were women of the same age group, type of notification and living in the same municipalities as the cases, but without death record in that period. Odds ratios were estimated by multivariate logistic regression. Results 790 cases and 50,870 controls were included in the study. Most of the young women died from aggression (58,2%), transport accidents (6,1%) and malignant neoplasms (3,8%). According to the bivariate analysis, age, pregnancy, race, education, area of residence, disability, place of violence, means of aggression, nature of violence and chronic violence were significant. The results of the multivariate analysis showed that the greatest odds of death were in women whose violence was perpetrated by a firearm, a sharp or blunt weapons and residents of rural areas. Young women with disabilities also had an increased chance of death. On the other hand, the higher educational level appeared as a protective factor against death. A big effort is necessary to develop strategies to prevent these announced deaths. These findings may contribute to the surveillance system for violence in health services and its performance with the serviceś network for women in situation of violence. Key messages Young women exposed to intimate partner violence who lived in rural areas had an estimated odds to death higher than they who lived in urban areas. The higher educational level was a protective factor against death in young women exposed to intimate partner violence.

Violence as Civility: V.D. Savarkar and the Mahatma’s Assassination

ABSTRACT This paper examines V.D. Savarkar’s interpretation of the place of violence within his larger arguments about civility as a way to rethink the murder of M.K. Gandhi – the Mahatma. Savarkar’s seminal work on Hindutva transformed political debate in the twentieth century by rethinking the categories of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindusthan.’ His contributions to the debates on civility provided an important insight: that is, violence was central to the understanding of what he calls Hindu civility – and by extension Hindu civilization. For him, to marginalize the centrality of violence was to not only overlook the basic foundation of civility, but it was to ignore the foundation of what it meant to be a Hindu. It was a radical statement of inscribing violence as central to the episteme of Hindu thought. This paper argues that Savarkar’s interpretation of political assassination was a key component of his conceptualization of violence as an ethical mode of conduct. It further examines Savarkar’s writings on the need for political assassinations against those individuals who promoted ‘excessive non-violence.’

Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Violence Against Women in English Press of Pakistan; A Content Analysis of Daily Dawn Newspaper

Women have always been victims of male dominant society and are being represented in media throughout the globe. The representation style and policy in global media is different in that every country has its own media laws concerning the representation of issues in the media – print, electronic and so forth. Thus, this research is aimed atinvestigating the news coverage about the issue of women violence in daily Dawn – an elite newspaper of Pakistan. Also, this study is conducted to analyses the representation of violence against women in the newspaper. To attain these objectives, content analysis method was employed to analysis and to investigate to know how this issue is being represented. November 2019 edition was selected to observe the issue. The units of analysis observed in this study were; frequency, placement, violence reason, violence place, violence type, and violence method. The frequency of news reported throughout the month was 18. Majority of the news were reported from Punjab – a province of Pakistan. The type of violence reported to have done to women was mostly gang rape. Few of the units could not be observed because the news reported were too shortly that could not fulfil the need of this study and it is a common adage; “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” and this style of too short coverage is not coping with what the theory of uses and gratification was developed for The newspaper has not picked any singly issue befallen Sindh and the issues have largely been bang up to date in Sindh province. The newspaper should revise its coverage policyand style of representation.

Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies: A Reply

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Cold Business and the Hot Take

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Do?

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Living with the Past: Thoughts on Community Collaboration and Difficult History in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Contexts for Critique: Revisiting Representations of Violence in Our Beloved Kin

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Continuing the Intervention: Past, Present, and Future Pathways for Native Studies and Early American History

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

El debate Oscar del Barco: memoria subterránea, contradicción performativa y el lugar de la historia de la violencia política

Buscamos analizar el amplio debate generado en torno a las declaraciones del exguerrillero Hector Jouvé y la carta del filósofo Oscar del Barco en la revista La intemperie, en 2004. Inicialmente, reconstruiremos algunas de las primeras reacciones sobre el exceso de moralidad y la teoría de los dos demonios que sugiere rehabilitar Del Barco. En seguida, analizaremos el debate entre Del Barco, Jinkis, Ritvo y Grüner en torno al sentido político de la carta. Si el no matarás como crítica político-moral a la lucha armada se funda en la máxima “la maldad consiste en excluirse de las consecuencias de los razonamientos, ¿no estaría autoexcluyéndose Del Barco al ignorar las consecuencias políticas de su carta cuando todavía reinaba la impunidad de los represores de la última dictadura? Finalmente, reconstruiremos brevemente el complejo debate entre Horacio Tarcus y Elias Palti sobre el lugar político de la violencia en la historia.

Place-making and the everyday lives of children born into the Lord’s Resistance Army

ABSTRACT After decades of war in northern Uganda, children born of forced marriage in the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) struggle to feel belonging. Based on data collected through a longitudinal study in the urban centre of Gulu town in northern Uganda with 29 children born into the LRA, this article offers a way to understand why the children are stigmatized in the places of their everyday lives. Stigmatization in the local postwar context is defined as having a moral dimension in which the children embody the insecurity and immorality of the war. Drawing on their stories about school and church, the article argues that stigmatization of the children can be understood as a place-making mechanism in people’s efforts to reclaim former places of violence, which results in the children’s sense of exclusion. The article concludes with a reflection on the importance of research with children born of war.

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks, and: Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Christine M. Delucia

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks, and: Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Christine M. Delucia

Sovereign Destruction: On Life and Death in Politics

Achille Mbembe and Adriana Cavarero offer two very profound neologisms –necropolitics and horrorism – that can equip one with a better understanding of life and death in the modern political community or sovereign unit (as in the case of the nation-state). If one goes through the rupture of thinking modern sovereignty following the Foucaultian inversion of war as the continuation of politics by other means, the place of violence is inevitable. What is considered as sovereign order in the same time is the place that was violently occupied, upon which was decided that will represent the constitution of power and the rule of a figure that in modern perspective is the rule of body politic i.e. of the sovereign. Thus, what was emphasized as a concern regarding modern sovereign rule opting towards material destruction of human bodies and populations, most certainly helps to explain contemporary political violence. Also what else is recognized are all other forms of war, all its extensions in every political community, since what war bears is not always and only terror, it is horror above all as an even more profound and at the same time excessive violence that spreads over war scenes.
 
 Article received: December 3, 2018; Article accepted: January 23, 2019; Published online: April 15, 2019; Original scholarly paper
 How to cite this article: Mladenova, Viki. "Sovereign Destruction: On Life and Death in Politics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 18 (2019): 9–16. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i18.299

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

The Productivity of Political Imprisonment: Stories from Rhodesia

ABSTRACTPolitical prisons are not only places of violence and silence. They are also productive. Building on recent literature that pays close attention to prisoners’ social and political projects, the article argues that significant, often hidden, aspects of political work take place within the prison, and reach beyond its walls. A focus on the writings and oral histories of political prisoners reveals a remarkable range of imagination and practice within the tight embrace of a hostile state, and shows also its post-colonial reverberations. Through a focus on settler-ruled Rhodesia, I explore the projects and possibilities of nationalists in detention and guerrillas in maximum security prisons, noting their varied and shifting modes of story telling, and the political charge of these stories in the present.

Records and Transformations of Memories in the Cultural Landscape of Idomeni (Kilkis, Northern Greece)

AbstractFollowing recent excavations and geophysical prospection at Idomeni in the Kilkis prefecture of Northern Greece, this paper attempts to reconstruct through digital means, the tangible and intangible vestiges of historical episodes that come together to form multiple narratives of a diachronically terra incognita site, gradually unlocking its hidden secrets. The digital documentation and processing, with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), of the spatial remains associated with historical episodes demonstrate the ways in which space at Idomeni was used within a multifaceted, diachronic framework. It is a place that is constantly being transformed over the past 7000 years from a seemingly “peaceful” agricultural community during the Neolithic period to a burial ground for a still invisible Middle Byzantine settlement, and finally, as a place of violence having been one of the battlefields of the First World War. The story of Idomeni has only recently been concluded as the theatre of a dramatic influx of modern refugees. Thus, the “multilayered” identity of a mnemonic place with various representations of the past unfolds: on one hand the distant eras, such as the still unknown Neolithic and Middle Byzantine period, and on the other, the relatively recent “traumatic” (war-related) past. Within the specific historical context of the First World War, this paper discusses the management of memories of locals and non-locals, e.g. the disappearance of entire settlements, or the emergence of new toponyms related to the protagonists and their actions during the war in the area of Idomeni remaining in the memory of locals today.

Violent Cultures, Acting Citizens and the Passive State: Contesting Political Morality in South Africa

ABSTRACTIn this article, I discuss how the use of violence has become a mechanism for mostly poor citizens in contemporary South Africa to contest the moral functioning of government and state institutions. More essentially, the article locates the place of violence within the broader state-society relationship. I argue that this interaction between the state and ordinary citizens in South Africa reveals the everyday appropriation of violence by the poor to foster an ‘effective’ social and political contract with the state. By taking cues from the everyday social struggles of the poor that manifest themselves through social protest, this article argues that the use of violence in such struggles is largely an outcome of a weakening moral order on the part of political authority. My evidence for this claim is purely qualitative and ethnographic. I engage with this evidence in this article to reflect on the agency of the figure of a ‘violent citizen’. In this reflection, I show how this agency is shaped mostly by everyday moral concerns related to the normative practice of government and party politics especially at the local level. On the overall, my aim in this article is twofold. Firstly, I seek to highlight how violence is often appropriated in the moral struggles of ordinary citizens in South Africa. Lastly, I also seek to refute the narrative that violence as it is used in the popular struggles of the ordinary citizens in South Africa is largely a ‘criminal’ activity.

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. By Christine M. DeLucia

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. By Christine M. DeLucia