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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Mass Violence"”.
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Terrorism on Twitter: Using topic models to examine topoi and digital rituals following mass violence
… in Twitter responses to three highly publicized mass violence events: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, the 2015 Charleston church shooting, and the 2016 Orlando Nightclub shooting. I find that although each event represents a different algorithmic public and contains distinct political, …
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Natural Disasters, Incidents Of Mass Violence, And Preparedness On A College Campus: A Study Of University Faculty And Staff
… for natural disasters and incidents of mass violence. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with faculty and staff members (N = 410) at a medium-sized university located in the southern United States. Employees’ sex, disaster experience, impact of that experience, perceived threat, and …
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The strong devour the weak : tracing the genocidal dynamics of violence in the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945
… had a potential for extreme group-destructive violence. This potential was unleashed at times between 1937 and 1945 as the Japanese military, engaged in wars fought, ostensibly, for the liberation and reconstruction of an ‘Asia for the Asiatics’, embraced measures which paradoxically allowed …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
… the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with incels, who believe that social liberalism, feminism, and more …
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Analysis of Ecofascist Tendencies on Reddit
… ‘cleansing’ of the world, often through acts of mass violence, as evidenced by the Christchurch shooting. This research builds on literature that adopts a liberatory outlook on climate change, such as decolonialism, ecofeminism and anti-imperialism, to analyze how ecofascist tendencies are …
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Searching for Healing Amidst the Genocidal Logic: Fragmentary Exiled Bosnian (Im)Possibilities
… Bosnia and Herzegovina during the genocidal violence in the early 1990s. Examining how the enduring and morphing impacts of this mass violence manifest as suturing knots of health disruptions, I foreground how there is an undergirding genocidal logic extending far beyond singular …
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Mass School Shootings: Predicting the Usage of Firearms in Acts of School Violence
… of firearms. A total of 345 perpetrators of mass school violence incidents are examined, including 266 who used firearms. White perpetrators and those with fewer co-perpetrators were more likely to use firearms. Results also showed that perpetrators were more likely to use firearms in rural …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… literary and intellectual culture in cycles of mass violence, the consequences of experience in Imperial Armies on post-imperial German culture, individual responsibility, and European memory of World War Two.</p>
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Gender, Martyrdom, and the Management of Stigmatized Identities among Devout Muslims in the U.S.
… asked how jihadists frame acts of martyrdom and mass violence, and how young Muslims in America handle the associated and ensuing stigma in daily life? To address these questions, I analyzed statements from militant jihadists and conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-six young and devout …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… and often controversial nature of addressing mass violence and human rights abuses. The world watched in horror as countless lives were lost to mass atrocities and other crimes. History is abundant with examples of the international community standing by and doing nothing as innocent people …
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One significant ghost: Agent Orange narratives of trauma, survival, and responsibility
… gaze in representing victims and survivors of mass violence. My work has been shaped by readings in history and memory, and by studies on suffering, violence, and trauma, and has benefited from discussions in science and technology studies.Semi-structured, open-ended interviews, participant …
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Space, Memory and the Politics of Reconstruction: Conflict-related Property Disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia
… private land and homes that are traceable to the violence that engulfed the city in 1991, and the mass displacements that occurred thereafter. An analysis of conflict-related property disputes reveals far more than simply disputes over brick and mortar. Instead, the central argument of this thesis …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… parallel. They have the same function to prevent mass violence and the same complementary approach to state sovereignty. As such, they are activated when a state fails to deal with international crimes perpetrated under its jurisdiction. The activity of the Court and the implementation of the …
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A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal
… how the discourse of multiracialism obscures mass violence and the colonial ideology of racial purity. Chapter one advances the framework of white residue through an examination of the case of Daniel Holtzclaw, the Japanese/white police officer serving 263 years in prison for assaulting 13 …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… outlines the Soviet policies that led to mass starvation and identifies various groups of people involved in the famine’s facilitation. It offers an analysis of events on village and district level, which reveals previously understudied groups, and employs a criminological approach to …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… the only advocates of a population targeted by mass violence. The specific focus is placed on the case of Kurdish rebel organisations from Iraq and Turkey. Lacking an ability to organise freely within either state, these groups established a presence in the more open political environment of the …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and mental health professionals, gun rights activists, mayors, …
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Strain and the School Shooter: A Theoretical Approach to the Offender's Perspective
… means of coping fail; many have turned to violence upon their peers in pursuit of resolution. The inability to properly cope with strain might explain why some individuals commit seemingly inexplicable acts of mass violence such as school shootings. </p> <p>Incidents such as Columbine have …
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Framing Crime: An Analysis of News Media Twitter Data
… has direct implications on the culture of gun violence, as well as market models which influence the news production process when reporting on active shooting incidents in the United States.
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… of the modern idea of Gujarat, I argue that violence against religious minorities is an effect of both secular nation-building and of religious nationalist mobilization. Given this entanglement, I suggest that we rethink the oppositional relationship between religion and the secular in …
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