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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"collective violence"”.
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Machine learning for social event analysis : public perceptions during COVID-19 and collective violence in South Africa
… of human compliance, adjustment and collective violence. The study analysed Twitter conversations (currently known as X), combining natural language processing from computer science with social theories from sociology to explore, explain, and interpret human behaviour during the …
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Violence and society in post-apartheid Cape Town
High levels of crime and violence continue to plague South Africa after nearly two decades of peace and democratic rule. While collective violence continues to occur in the form of violent protests and community mob justice, the majority of violent incidents in South Africa are instances of …
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Three Essays In The Sociology Of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, And Emotional Interventions In De-Escalation
… dissertation apply a micro-first sociology of violence to three topics operating at several different timescales–decades, years, days, and minutes. The first paper considers the evolution of collective violence over fifty years. This study asks whether the emergent nature of violence prevents …
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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… their aims, and (3) how various episodes of collective violence unfolded, whether as planned conspiracies or spontaneous riots. The first chapter discusses the legal structures and governing systems of towns in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia. The second chapter pays special attention to the …
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines the way primitive cultures are able to maintain order through particular religious beliefs and collective violence against a scapegoat. My critical reading of the text will look closely at …
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Long walk to press freedom: the media framing of the April 2015 xenophobic attacks in South Africa
This thesis enquires into the collective violence against foreigners in South Africa in April 2015. The aim of the study is to investigate the manner in which the media framed the attacks, and to analyse how both victims and perpetrators were presented in news articles. The research process …
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An Analysis of Major American Riots: Issues in Riots and Riot Control
… administrators acquire a general perspective on collective violence, and help them prevent future occurrences in their jurisdictions. In this thesis a special reference is given to the deficiencies of American riot policing and some recommendations were formed accordingly. Therefore, the study …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… because of this unsettled nature of the violence---which thus defies any singular narrative that satisfactorily explains the incident empirically---the massacre of Koreans sheds light on the development of subjective narratives on collective violence in the culture of empire. In an …
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Global Social Disorganization: Applying Social Disorganization Theory to the Study of Terrorist Organizations
… emerge to control this and other forms of collective violence.
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Preventing Crime in Communities: A Critical Analysis of Community Safety in a Lower Income Neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya
… to be robbery, stealing, burglary and sexual violence. Community safety initiatives established for the purpose of crime prevention require collaboration with formal and informal social control mechanisms; however, within Kibera there appears to be an absence of law enforcers (SRIC, 2014) and …
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The Territorialization of the 'Republican Law': Judicial Presence in Seine-Saint-Denis, France
… to more efficiently fight crime and prevent collective violence among youths from immigrant origins. More specifically, the Houses of Justice and Law, or Maisons de Justice et du droit, and the Local Groups for the Treatment of Delinquency, or Groupes Locaux du Traitement de la Delinquance …
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Where and When Things Fall Apart: Relating narratives of post-election violence from Nairobi
The violence that followed the 2007 elections in Kenya caught many people by surprise, including me. Given some familiarity with, and personal connections to, Kenya, this dissertation began first with shock and concern, and later with suspicion of the way the post election violence was presented in …
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A violent origin : a Girardian analysis of the scapegoating of Ali ibn Abu Talib in Shi'ite tradition
… concepts of mimetic rivalry, conspiracy and collective violence. There is the historical Ali and the divine Imam Ali. These two positions can be reconciled by following a constitutive reductionist method for the purpose of analysis in applying the scapegoat mechanism theory. Reductionism is …
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Generation After: Kinship in the aftermath of genocidal sexual violence in Rwanda
Thousands of women and girls experienced sexual violence during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, with many becoming pregnant as a result of genocidal rape. Based on two years of ethnographic research in Rwanda, this dissertation explores the dynamics of kinship in the aftermath of …
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Violence and state response in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius
This thesis examines the concept of violence during the transition from Republic to Principate. Many of the provisions against violence which evolved during the course of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius were a direct response to the violence of the Late Republic. They were to a large extent, …
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On the Stage of Change: A Dramaturgical Approach to Violence, Social Protests, and Policing Styles in the U.S.
… styles around a dramaturgical approach to collective action, identifying factors influencing violence at social protests in the United States from 2006-2009. Conceiving of social protest as a form of political and symbolic action, I maintain that social actors and the qualities of their …
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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
… as the participants in other cases of mass violence, thus rendering the image of the Other, aberrant or exclusively ideological participant in cultural memory inefficient to explain how this devastating famine was possible. By bringing together archival evidence and works of cultural memory, …