03209nam 2200613Ia 450 991045806820332120200520144314.092-808-7159-5(CKB)2560000000054952(EBL)728595(OCoLC)697184547(SSID)ssj0000472205(PQKBManifestationID)11323251(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472205(PQKBWorkID)10428994(PQKB)10574708(MiAaPQ)EBC728595(Au-PeEL)EBL728595(CaPaEBR)ebr10438159(EXLCZ)99256000000005495220100413d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolitical violence in South and Southeast Asia[electronic resource] critical perspectives /edited by Itty Abraham, Edward Newman and Meredith L. WeissTokyo ;New York United Nations University Pressc20101 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.92-808-1190-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction - The politics of violence: Modalities, frames andfunctions; 2 Comparative assassinations: The changing moral economy of political killing in South Asia; 3 Forms of collective and state violence in South Asia; 4 Mass violence in Southeast Asia; 5 On the borderlines: Politics, religion and violence in Bangladesh; 6 External influences on political violence in Southeast Asia; 7 Recruitment and attack in Southeast Asian collective violence; 8 Subversion, secession and the state in South Asia: Varieties ofviolence; indexThis volume explores the sources and manifestations of political violence in South and Southeast Asia and the myriad roles that it plays in everyday life and as part of historical narrative. It considers and critiques the manner in which political violence is understood and constructed, and the common assumptions that prevail regarding the causes, victims and perpetrators of this violence. By focusing on the social and political context of these regions the volume presents a critical understanding of the nature of political violence and provides an alternative narrative to that found in mainstPolitical violenceSouth AsiaPolitical violenceSoutheast AsiaSouth AsiaSocial conditionsSouth AsiaPolitics and governmentSoutheast AsiaSocial conditionsSoutheast AsiaPolitics and government1945-Electronic books.Political violencePolitical violence322.42095Abraham Itty1960-850253Newman Edward1970-753901Weiss Meredith L(Meredith Leigh),1972-867427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458068203321Political violence in South and Southeast Asia2201029UNINA