Interventions : activists and academics respond to violence / edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castelli, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1958-

Jakobsen, Janet R., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Congresses.

Violence.

Violence--Prevention--Congresses.

Feminist theory--Congresses.

Feminist theory.

Violence--Prevention.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

"Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence" brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. The contributors to "Interventions" examine many hard questions including: Are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to respond effectively to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both "religion" and "secularism" in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer incisive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence.

Contents:

Introduction: Feminists Responding to Violence: Theories, Vocabularies, and Strategies / Elizabeth A. Castelli 1

Part I Terms of Engagement

1 Feminism in the Time of Violence / Karen Beckman 13

2 The Wrong Victims: Terrorism, Trauma, and Symbolic Violence / Sally Bachner 23

3 Definitions and Injuries of Violence / Meredeth Turshen 29

4 Filling the Sight by Force: A Meditation on the Violence of the Vernacular / Laura Wexler 37

5 Rethinking Responses to Violence, Rethinking the Safety of "Home" / Andrea Smith 41

6 Violence of Protection / Minoo Moallem 47

7 Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion? / Janet R. Jakobsen 53

Part II Violence and the U.S. Political Regime

8 Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, Before and After 9/11 / Erin Runions 71

9 The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush's "Preemptive" War Strategy / Neta C. Crawford 89

10 The Erosion of Democracy in Advancing the Bush Administration's Iraq Agenda: Government Lies and Misinformation and Media Complicity / Jody Williams 103

Part III Contexts and Locations of Violence

11 Naming Enmity: The Case of Israel/Palestine / Gil Anidjar 119

12 Toward a Cherokee Theory of Violence / Laura E. Donaldson 131

13 Dangerous Crossings: Violence at the Borders / Lois Ann Lorentzen 133

14 Domestic Terror / Catherine Lutz, Jon Elliston 143

15 Testifying to Violence: Gujarat as a State of Exception / Anupama Rao 149

16 Challenging What We Mean by Conflict Prevention: The Experience of East Timor / Gwi-Yeop Son 161

Part IV Antiviolence Ethics and Strategies: Coalitions, Theatres, Interdependencies

17 Sisterhood after Terrorism: Filipino Ecumenical Women and the U.S. Wars / Kathryn Poethig 175

18 The Female Body as Site of Attack: Will the "Real" Muslim Woman's Body Please Reveal Itself? / Fawzia Afzal-Kahn 187

19 Responses to Violence: Healing vs. Punishment / Helena Cobban 197

20 Our Enemies, Ourselves: Why Antiviolence Movements Must Replace the Dualism of "Us and Them" with an Ethic of Interdependence / Kay Whitlock 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-230) and index.

ISBN:

1403965811

140396582X

OCLC:

54931692