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Violent Becomings

2016-08-01 Social Science
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Release : 2016-08-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Violent Becomings by : Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Download or read book Violent Becomings written by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called ‘traditional’ forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification, liberation war struggles and civil war, the social engineering of the post-independence state, and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings.

Violent Becomings

2016-08 Political Science
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Release : 2016-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 368/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Violent Becomings by : Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Download or read book Violent Becomings written by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. This book was released on 2016-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

Violent Affect

2007-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 967/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Violent Affect by : Marco Abel

Download or read book Violent Affect written by Marco Abel. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering previous studies of violent images based on representational and, consequently, moralistic assumptions, which, the author argues, inevitably reinforce the very violence they critique. He explains how violent images work upon the world.

A Violent Embrace

2014-01-07 Art
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Release : 2014-01-07
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 927/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Violent Embrace by : renée c. hoogland

Download or read book A Violent Embrace written by renée c. hoogland. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even—or especially—if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, presenting "retellings" of specific artistic events in the light of recent interventions in aesthetic theory, and proposing to conceive of the aesthetic encounter as a potentially disruptive, if not violent, force field with material, political, and practical consequences.

Becoming Unbecoming

2016-10-03 Comics & Graphic Novels
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Release : 2016-10-03
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Becoming Unbecoming by : Una

Download or read book Becoming Unbecoming written by Una. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to "lower her gaze" in order to deflect attention from boys. After she is "slut-shamed" at school for having birth control pills, Una herself is the subject of violent acts for which she comes to blame herself. But as the police finally catch up and identify the killer, Una grapples with the patterns of behavior that led her to believe she was to blame. Becoming Unbecoming combines various styles, press clippings, photo-based illustrations, and splashes of color to convey Una's sense of confusion and rage, as well as sobering statistics on sexual violence against women. The book is a no-holds-barred indictment of sexual violence against women and the shame and blame of its victims that also celebrates the empowerment of those able to gain control over their selves and their bodies. Una (a pseudonym) is an artist, academic, and comics creator. Becoming Unbecoming, which took seven years to create, is her first book. She lives in the United Kingdom.

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