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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"History of Violence"”.
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An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear
… found in Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) theories of the uncanny, specifically signifiers of darkness, unfamiliarity and secrecy. This employment of the uncanny in sculpture aids Puryear’s ability to address a range of aesthetics and provides a striking lens through which he addresses the …
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Blood At The Root
<p>This is a coming of age story about two very different boys – Jason, a Northerner who ends up stuck in a small Southern town and Billy, a Southern boy with an abusive father. The boys become friends and grow up learning the dark secrets that are allowed to fester in a tiny southern town ruled by …
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A resistência à ocupação também é colorida: o pinkwashing israelense como tentativa de estigmatização da população palestina.
… by the gay movement against the occupation of Palestinian territories, is a pro-LGBT Israeli propaganda strategy that aims to emphasize Israel’s modernity and diversity, consequently attracting international empathy and degrading Palestine’s image as a radical and homophobic community. The …
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A history of failure
A history of failure implies several things. It can point to a chronology of the concept of failure, like so many contemporary history books that chart a minute aspect of culture. It could refer to a personal record, like a criminal having a history of violence. The implication is also there that …
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Characteristics of male batterers and substance abusers: the relationship between sex role attitudes and the approval and severity of the use of physical force by men in a family context
… the link between sex-role stereotyping and male violence to provide an empirical base for the development of an appropriate predictive model of marital violence and to improve treatment provided to this population. Method. The sample of study included 44 men participating in programs for …
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Predictors of recidivism in a population of Canadian sex offenders: Psychological, physiological, and offence factors.
The primary objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between psychological, physiological and offence variables and recidivism in a sample of 588 sexual offenders assessed at the Sexual Behaviours Clinic (SBC) of the Royal Ottawa Hospital between the years 1983 and 1992, …
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Peace through the metaphor of war from police pacification to governance transformation in Rio de Janeiro
The history of the military police in Rio de Janeiro is a history of violence. Police violence peaked during the democratic era when they have killed more civilians annually than the total disappeared during the military dictatorship. Their violence unduly targets the urban poor, those living in …
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A compendium of Colombian policing challenges : from Pablo to present
Colombia has one of the oldest democracies in Latin American, however it has a history of violence that stretches from the time of the breakup of Gran Colombia. Simón Bolívar’s vision started to erode in the 1830s and ended in 1903 with the independence of Panama. Contemporary Colombia saw violence …
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Football, violence and working class culture
… out over a five year period, amongst a group of young, male, football fans. The question of what football means to its loyal adherents is asked and answers such as a religion, a quasi religion, or a magical ceremony are analysed and discussed. The language of the fans in terms of songs, …
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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
This thesis traces the themes of war, racism, ecological anxiety and postindustrial subjugation as forms of conflict informing the Walt Disney Animation Studios features Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams, 2014), Zootopia (Byron Howard and Rich Moore, 2016), Moana (Ron Clements and John …
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Media Representations of Gender-Based Violence Against Black Women: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a well-known problem, with South Africa having one of the highest rates of GBV in the world. Additionally, South African media plays a role in how and what information about GBV is disseminated. This work looks at two case studies to investigate how the media …
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The Literary Representations And Interpretations Of La Matanza
… the literary representations and interpretations of La Matanza, a Salvadoran massacre that occurred in 1932. A peasant-led uprising resulted in the assassination of thousands of campesinos and indigenous people by General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez's repressive military regime. As a result of …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
This thesis proposes a concept of the trauma aesthetic in order to make sense of the ways in which particular texts have responded to the events of 9/11 as an intensely mediated and vicariously experienced cultural trauma. A central argument within existing studies of 9/11 and its cultural impact …
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Family Histories of Mental Illness and Violence in State Patients
… It is known that both severe mental illness and violence have genetic components. Multiple genes play a role in the cause of violent behaviour. Violence is one of the leading causes of death for young people in South Africa and yet little is known about its prevalence in state patients and their …
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The Responses of South Korean Presidents Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun toward North Korean Threats (1998-2006): A Comparative Case Study Analysis
There has been a long history of violence between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and North Korea is still a current threat to the South due to their missile launches and naval clashes. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the interactions between North and South …
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Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?
<p>The central purpose of this research was to compare attributions of blame for spousal violence made by women who were in violent relationships with those of abused women who had sought shelter and those of women who had never been abused. Both clinicians and researchers (e.g., Frieze, 1979; …
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
The colonial archive is marred by a history of violence, particularly in its reductionist and hypersexualized portrayals of Black bodies, especially those of Black women. This problem is rooted in colonialism, racialized misogyny, and the commodification of Black bodies for the entertainment and …
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A post-mortem toxicological investigation: Understanding the role of drugs of abuse in violent fatalities in Cape Town, South Africa
Violence and resulting injuries are critical health burdens worldwide, accounting for the death of millions of individuals annually. The literature reports an association between drug use and violence, providing data indicating that the use of psychoactive substances increases the risk of morbidity …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in Kurdistan Region (North of Iraq)
… for terrorists and insurgents in most parts of the country. Kurdistan Region is a safe and sustainable part of Iraq compared to the rest of the country. Its rich natural resources (oil and gas), and competitive investment laws are expected to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) into the …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in social life. Sometimes that aggression takes the form of the killing of one …
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