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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Contemporary Violence"”.
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Primordial Identities, Bounded Territories, and Contemporary Violence?: American Geopolitical Perspectives on the Middle East's Cultural Landscapes
… territorial assumptions are employed in contemporary American views on the Middle East. To do this, I analyze three important sets of maps and texts which encapsulate contemporary American views on the region. The set of maps consists of easily accessible ethnographic maps of the Middle …
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Literary and Cinematic Representations of Neoliberal Forms of Contemporary Violence in Latin America with Special Interest in Mexico and Colombia
… and greater intensity, the so-called neoliberal violence has come to play a relevant role within the history of world societies. The Latin American institutional, political, social, and economic changes of the 1970’s and 1980’s, especially those produced under dictatorships, contributed to create …
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Who are the dissidents? : analysing changes in the sociological profile of violent dissident republicans in Northern Ireland
… and academics on how to counter the contemporary violence of dissidents in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism
… the stories explore the interface of occult violence and youth politics in the contemporary period. They are connected through overlapping characters and through their relationships to a central geography: the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria’s oldest and most prestigious institute of …
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Re-Envisioning the United States' Search for Re-Empowerment after 9/11: Vulnerability, Visual Framing, and Violence
… analyzes the relationship among vulnerability, violence, and the framing of images right after the 9/11 attacks and throughout the subsequent war on terror. It examines eight prominent images circulated in the United States at that time. The thesis argues that the revelation of US vulnerability …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… examines the representation of maternity in contemporary art cinema, focusing on selected films by Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker and, in a coda, Alice Diop. It proposes that these recent directors all explore maternity from the perspective of ‘transgression’, both as …