Pt. 1. Violence and the state. Politics as a vocation / Max Weber ; Reflections on violence / Hannah Arendt ; War making and state making as organized crime / Charles Tilly ; The impact and function of terror / Barrington Moore, Jr. ; The uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- Pt. 2. Political violence. The causes of terrorism / Martha Crenshaw ; Playing the game of love: passion and martyrdom among Khalistani Sikhs / Cynthia Keppley-Mahmood ; A head for an eye: revenge in the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton ; Dirty protest: symbolic overdetermination and gender in Northern Ireland ethnic violence / BegonĚa Aretxaga ; Surfacing gender: reconceptualizing crimes against women in time of war / Rhonda Copelon -- Pt. 3. The normalization of violence. Culture of terror-- space of death. Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the explanation of torture / Michael Taussig ; Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: a cultural politics of violence / Julie Peteet ; Terror warfare and the medicine of peace / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Pt. 5. Conclusion. Political violence and the contemporary world.
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