Enemy lines [[electronic resource] ] : warfare, childhood, and play in Batticaloa / / Margaret Trawick |
Autore | Trawick Margaret |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 954.93032 |
Collana | Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint |
Soggetto topico |
Children and violence - Sri Lanka - Batticaloa District
Children and war - Sri Lanka - Batticaloa District Children - Sri Lanka - Batticaloa District - Social conditions Tamil (Indic people) - Sri Lanka - Batticaloa District - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
anthropology armed resistance movement batticaloa boys and girls childhood play childhood children of war children childrens studies civil war coming of age conflict stories cultural conflict historians history of violence india military studies nonfiction personal account politics regional conflict societal violence sociologists sociology sri lanka tamil tigers teenagers war history war warfare |
ISBN |
9786612358159
1-282-35815-4 0-520-93887-9 1-4337-0971-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tamil Transliterations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Past -- 3. March 1996 -- 4. Vasanta And Rosa -- 5. About Vithusa -- 6. What Menan Showed Me -- 7. Girls In The LTTE -- 8. Boys In The LTTE -- 9. Spectacles And Mysteries -- 10. Look For What You Do Not See -- Notes -- References -- General Index -- Index Of People -- Index Of Places |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784406903321 |
Trawick Margaret
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2007 | ||
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Humanitarian reason [[electronic resource] ] : a moral history of the present times / / Didier Fassin ; translated by Rachel Gomme |
Autore | Fassin Didier |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 174/.9361 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GommeRachel |
Soggetto topico |
Humanitarian assistance - Moral and ethical aspects
International relief - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
asylum
case studies disease france history of violence humanitarian government humanitarian organizations humanitarianism humanitarians immigration policies international relations local policies modern history moral anthropology moral discourse moral history moral issues natural disasters nonfiction palestine political discourse poverty social inequality south africa theoretical perspective venezuela war |
ISBN |
1-283-27857-X
9786613278579 0-520-95048-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Politics -- pt. 2. Worlds. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781789203321 |
Fassin Didier
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 | ||
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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
Autore | Das Veena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.60954 |
Collana | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
Soggetto topico |
Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India Suffering - India Violence - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
1947
1984 anthropologists anthropology case studies collective violence contemporary thought critical analysis ethnographers ethnography fieldwork gender studies gendered violence historical history of violence human condition india indira gandhi interdisciplinary massacre of sikhs men and women nonfiction partition of india philosophical political theory sectarian conflict social science understanding violence violent cultures violent societies |
ISBN |
9786612358401
1-282-35840-5 0-520-93953-0 1-4294-1914-8 1-60129-532-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784412003321 |
Das Veena
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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The monster that is history [[electronic resource] ] : history, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China / / David Der-wei Wang |
Autore | Wang Dewei |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (414 p.) |
Disciplina | 895.1/35093552 |
Collana | Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Chinese fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Chinese fiction - Taiwan - History and criticism Violence in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
ancient china asia scholars brutal history china chinese history chinese violence crime and punishment cultural violence decapitation discussion books enlightenment ethnic issues gender issues geopolitical change historians historical history of violence literary criticism literary critics literary landscape modernity monstrous history nonfiction politics rationality representation students and teachers suicide taowu textbooks |
ISBN |
1-282-76294-X
9786612762949 0-520-93724-4 1-59734-944-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Invitation to a Beheading -- 2. Crime or Punishment? -- 3. An Undesired Revolution -- 4. Three Hungry Women -- 5. Of Scars and National Memory -- 6. The Monster That Is History -- 7. The End of the Line -- 8. Second Haunting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783319203321 |
Wang Dewei
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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Paradise in ashes [[electronic resource] ] : a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope / / Beatriz Manz ; with a foreword by Aryeh Neier |
Autore | Manz Beatriz <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.8105/2 |
Collana | California series in public anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Quiché Indians - Crimes against - Guatemala - Santa María Tzejá
Quiché Indians - Relocation - Mexico Massacres - Guatemala - Santa María Tzejá Political violence - Guatemala - Santa María Tzejá Civil-military relations - Guatemala - Santa María Tzejá Return migration - Guatemala - Santa María Tzejá |
Soggetto non controllato |
1980s
20th century anthropologists central america cultural history ethnography guatemala guatemalan civil war guerrillas historians historical perspective history of violence illustrated indigenous histories land disputes latin american history maps maya peasants mayan highlands mexico nonfiction paramilitary forces political conflict rainforests refugees repression santa maria tzeja social sciences textbooks united states village life war |
ISBN |
0-520-93932-8
1-59734-794-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The Highland Homeland -- 2. Settling in the Promised Land -- 3. The War Finds Paradise -- 4. Ashes, Exodus, and Faded Dreams -- 5. A Militarized Village -- 6. Reunification -- 7. Treading between Fear and Hope -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780448103321 |
Manz Beatriz <1944->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Sites of violence [[electronic resource] ] : gender and conflict zones / / edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GilesWenona Mary <1949->
HyndmanJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Violence
Political violence Social conflict Women - Crimes against Sex role Sex differences Feminist theory |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
anthology armed conflict conflict zones economy of conflict essay collection ethnographers feminists gender roles gender studies ghana guatemala history of violence human condition international perspective iraq israel kurdistan levels of violence life and death nationalism nonfiction essays palestine personal violence political racial issues social history soldiers somalia sri lanka transnational coalitions war zones |
ISBN |
0-520-93705-8
1-282-35967-3 1-59734-902-X 9786612359675 |
Classificazione | CV 6800 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context -- 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace -- 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala -- 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan -- 5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan -- 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter -- 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana -- 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace -- 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender -- 10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka -- 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit -- 12. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States -- 13. The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization -- 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783388103321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Why did they kill? [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide / / Alex Hinton |
Autore | Hinton Alexander Laban |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 959.604/2 |
Collana | California series in public anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Political atrocities - Cambodia
Genocide - Cambodia |
Soggetto non controllato |
1970s
anthropological analysis anthropologists anthropology cambodia cambodian culture cambodian genocide cultural knowledge cultural studies death toll execution genocidal ideologies history of violence human motivation human psychology human rights illness khmer rouge malnutrition mass murder millions dead nazi regime nonfiction origins of genocide overwork perceived differences political movement political violence social analysis southeast asia starvation violence |
ISBN |
9786612763052
1-282-76305-9 1-59875-009-7 9780520241789 9781417545208 1-4175-4520-8 0-520-93794-5 0-520-24178-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : in the shadow of genocide -- The prison without walls -- A head for an eye : Disproportionate Revenge -- Power, patronage, and suspicion -- In the shade of Pol Pot's umbrella -- The fire without smoke -- The DK social order -- Manufacturing difference -- The dark side of face and honor -- Conclusion : why people kill. |
Altri titoli varianti | Cambodia in the shadow of genocide |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783386503321 |
Hinton Alexander Laban
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 | ||
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