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The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence / edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Bock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War.
- War--Psychological aspects.
- War and society.
- Military art and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the specific and the general in wartime. It examines how people cope and adjust to situations of war, depending upon whether these are low-intensity or high-intensity ones, on whether they are brief phases of conflict or long enduring periods of violence, with or without intermittent spells of peace. Of particular interest is the exploration of a largely new dimension of social interaction - that of the internet, thus providing a bridge between local concerns and global networks.
- Contents:
- The Practice of War; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF WAR; PART I. CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA; CHAPTER 1. 'WE TURNED OUR ENEMIES INTO BABOONS': WARFARE, RITUAL AND PASTORAL IDENTITY AMONG THE POKOT OF NORTHERN KENYA; CHAPTER 2. CULTURE SLIPPING AWAY: VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TENSION AND PERSONAL DRAMA IN SURI SOCIETY, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA; CHAPTER 3. CATHOLICS AND CANNIBALS: TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO, WESTERN UGANDA; PART II. MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION
- CHAPTER 4. COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER: THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, 1904-1940CHAPTER 5 TRAUMA, THERAPY AND RESPONSIBILITY: PSYCHOLOGY AND WAR IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL; CHAPTER 6. 'I SHALL BE WAITING FOR YOUAT THE DOOR OF PARADISE': THE PAKISTANI MARTYRS OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBA (ARMY OF THE PURE); PART III ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGION; CHAPTER 7 IS WAR GENDERED? ISSUES IN REPRESENTING WOMEN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR; CHAPTER 8 JUDGING BY AESTHETICS: 'DUE CARE' IN THE MANAGEMENT OF 'COLLABORATION' IN THE FIRST PALESTINIAN INTIFADA
- CHAPTER 9. ISLAMIST MILITANCY IN KASHMIR: THE CASE OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBAPART IV. THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS; CHAPTER 10. IN THE COMBAT ZONE; CHAPTER 11. 'VIRTUAL' DISCOURSE AND THE CREATION AND DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE WAR IN KASHMIR IN CYBERSPACE; CHAPTER 12. MARTYRS, VICTIMS, FRIENDS AND FOES: INTERNET REPRESENTATIONS BY PALESTINIAN ISLAMISTS; CHAPTER 13. MAPPING A CONFLICT IN CYBERSPACE: CHIAPAS ON THE WWW; PART V. PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVALENCES OF INTEREST; CHAPTER 14. VIOLENCE AND PEACE PROCESSES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-437-2
- 0-85745-401-3
- 1-282-62697-3
- 9786612626975
- 0-85745-059-X
- OCLC:
- 645100389
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