Violence : 'mercurial gestalt'

Violence : 'mercurial gestalt' / edited by Tobe Levin.

"Susanne Chassay explores the relationship between private and political terrorism. Her viewpoint complements analyses of violence - that 'mercurial gestalt' - by other contributors to this collection derived from a Cultures of Violence conference held at St. Catherine's College,...

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Other Authors: Levin, Tobe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 47.
Subjects:
Violence.
Violence > Psychological aspects.
Nature and nurture.
violence.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Nature and nurture
Violence
Violence > Psychological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Violence in Theory and Praxis : Torture, Terror, Suicide
  • Theories of violence and the explanation of ultra-violent behaviour / Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer
  • E pluribus unum : European nationalism, or Shopping for identities in the European Union / Oleg Piletsky
  • From soldier to torturer? Military training and moral agency / Jessica Wolfendale
  • A literature of terror and mourning / Kaiama L. Glover
  • Hurtling toward darkness : Faces of violence in the contemporary world / Susanne Chassay
  • Part 2. Violence Secret and Sanctioned : Child Abuse, Apartheid, FGM
  • Violence on the screen : Psychological perspectives on child abuse in American popular film, 1992-2001 / Larissa N. Niec, Elizabeth V. Breston, and Linda Anne Valle
  • Creative writing of FGM as an act of violence and human rights abuse / Tobe Levin
  • Re-constructing South African identity after 1994 : Museums and public history / M.K. Flynn and Tony King
  • Speaking of connected sites : Narrative and praxis of spatial competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Karen Lysaght
  • Racism and violence : Anti-racist strategies in intercultural contact zones / Eleonore Wildburger
  • Part 3. Violence and Institutions : Butchery, Execution, Riots
  • The enemy within : Earthquake, rumours and massacre in the Japanese Empire / Jin-hee Lee
  • When saviour becomes serpent : The psychology of police violence / William Vlach
  • "Equality in life presumes equality in death" : Gender and execution in Sunbelt America / Vivien Miller.

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