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Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions and
manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and
events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice
for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the
verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the
performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute
these expressions. Such an approach provides a method of more
comprehensively registering and understanding the manifestations
and long-lasting effects of violence, whilst exploring violence
both as an extreme subjective experience, and the 'ultimate truth',
thus overcoming a common epistemological antagonism in researching
violence. Offering a variety of analytical approaches and
methodological perspectives, Violence Expressed presents the latest
empirical studies, ranging from the 'everyday' violence experienced
by children, stories of rape, social memory and the discrepancy
between private and public narratives, to rumours and silences or
the iconography of violence. A compelling contribution to ongoing
discussions on anthropological writing, this book will be of
interest to anthropologists and social scientists working on
violence, gender, collective representations and memory.
Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions and
manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and
events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice
for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the
verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the
performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute
these expressions. Such an approach provides a method of more
comprehensively registering and understanding the manifestations
and long-lasting effects of violence, whilst exploring violence
both as an extreme subjective experience, and the 'ultimate truth',
thus overcoming a common epistemological antagonism in researching
violence. Offering a variety of analytical approaches and
methodological perspectives, Violence Expressed presents the latest
empirical studies, ranging from the 'everyday' violence experienced
by children, stories of rape, social memory and the discrepancy
between private and public narratives, to rumours and silences or
the iconography of violence. A compelling contribution to ongoing
discussions on anthropological writing, this book will be of
interest to anthropologists and social scientists working on
violence, gender, collective representations and memory.
This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly
dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films,
poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image,
law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated
and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how
genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation
which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of
genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present.
Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of
what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are
inseparable companions and we find the idea of the
untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past
and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple
acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards
the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and
students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice,
sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.
This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly
dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films,
poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image,
law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated
and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how
genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation
which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of
genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present.
Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of
what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are
inseparable companions and we find the idea of the
untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past
and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple
acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards
the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and
students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice,
sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.
Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants
simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of
inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought
to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through
mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisation or criminalisation.
This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee
regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee
regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and
exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge
essentialisation. This violence is international, national,
society-based, internalised, and embodied - and it urgently needs
due scholarly attention.
Anthropology in Austria has come a long way, in terms of achieving
diversity, growth and international visibility, since first
emerging in Vienna, the capital of the former Habsburg Empire, and
now of one of its main successor countries. This volume combines
elements of critical self-reflection about that academic past with
confidence in the intellectual currents presently in motion across
the discipline. As with the country’s contributions to world
literature and music, the trajectory of social-cultural
anthropology may be seen as a good example of the global relevance
of research in Austria within the humanities and social sciences.
This ‘anthropology in motion’ situates itself at the
intersections between contemporary and historical research, but
also often between the natural and the social sciences. It shows a
commitment to conceptual and theoretical pluralism, but, equally
importantly, a dedication to the maintenance and improvement of
standards of methodological quality. Whether empirical research is
focused on studies at home or abroad, the blending of renewed forms
of ethnographic fieldwork with solid comparative analyses and
archival research characterizes many of these ongoing advances.
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