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The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rao, Aparna, Bollig, Michael, Böck, Monika
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Subjects:
War.
War and society.
Violence.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The practice of war / Elisabeth Colson
  • pt. 1. Changing qualities of violence: case studies from Africa. 'We turned our enemies into baboons': warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle
  • Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink
  • Catholics and cannibals: terror and healing in Tooro, western Uganda / Heike Behrend
  • pt. 2. Memory, trauma and redemption. Coming through slaughter: the Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 / Jan-Bart Gewald
  • Trauma, therapy and responsibility: psychology and war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari
  • 'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise': the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure) / Mariam Abou Zahab
  • pt. 3. Organizing, encouraging and dissuading: the uses of kinship, gender and religion. Is war gendered? Issues in representing women and the Second World War / Elaine Martin
  • Judging by aesthetics: 'due care' in the management of 'collaboration' in the first Palestinian Intifada / Iris Jean-Klein
  • Islamist militancy in Kashmir: the case of the Lashkar-e Taiba / Yoginder Sikand
  • pt. 4. The inscription of war in mediated worlds. In the combat zone / Marilyn B. Young
  • 'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks: observations on the war in Kashmir in cyberspace / Aparna Rao ... [et al.]
  • Martyrs, victims, friends and foes: internet representations by Palestinian islamists / Henner Kirchner
  • Mapping a conflict in cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW / Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg
  • pt. 5. Peace building at the crossroads: appropriations of war, ambivalences of interest. Violence and peace processes / John Darby.