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

Provides information to help in a better understanding of the specific and the general in wartime. This book examines how people cope and adjust to situations of war, depending upon whether these are low-intensity or high-intensity ones, and on whether they are brief phases of conflict or long enduring periods of violence.
Print Book, English, 2007
Berghahn Books, New York, 2007
XVII, 346 ; 23 cm
9781845452803, 1845452801
912618957
List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Preface Introduction: The Practice of War Elisabeth Colson 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 Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle Chapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern Ethiopia Jon Abbink Chapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western Uganda Heike Behrend PART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION Chapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904–1940 Jan-Bart Gewald Chapter 5. Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary Israel Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari Chapter 6. ‘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 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 Elaine Martin Chapter 8. Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian Intifada Iris Jean-Klein Chapter 9. Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e Taiba Yoginder Sikand PART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS Chapter 10. In the Combat Zone Marilyn B. Young Chapter 11. ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in Cyberspace Aparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael Schnegg Chapter 12. Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian Islamists Henner Kirchner Chapter 13. Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg PART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTEREST Chapter 14. Violence and Peace Processes John Darby Index
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