Finding the Enemy: Ethnicized State Violence and Population Control in Ceaușescu's Romania
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DOI: 10.1162/jcws_a_00766
Abstract: State violence as a complex system of ideological prescriptions, normative values, and everyday practices has been emerging as a major topic in the study of Soviet-type regimes. Overcoming the Cold War preoccupation with the totalitarian… read more here.
Keywords: violence; ceau escu; state violence; escu romania ... See more keywords
Revolutionary Law Abidance: Kachin Rebel Governance and the Adoption of ihl in Resistance to Myanmar State Violence
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DOI: 10.1163/15718123-01906003
Abstract: Although armed opposition actors are increasingly prevalent within contemporary conflicts, ethnographies seeking to understand and explain their relationship with international law are scarce. While scholars highlight the state-centric nature of international law, discussing at length… read more here.
Keywords: state; rebel governance; state violence; law ... See more keywords
Nationalism and torture
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DOI: 10.1177/00223433231164437
Abstract: Why do states engage in violence against marginalized social groups? State violence is typically explained as a calculated response to dissent or as a means of preventing dissent. However, many instances of state violence against… read more here.
Keywords: violence; state; state violence; nationalism torture ... See more keywords
The dark footprint of state violence: A synthetic approach to the American crime decline
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DOI: 10.1177/1362480620984233
Abstract: This project combines the conversation on the national crime rate with emerging discussions on the violence that the state perpetrates against civilians. To measure US lethal violence holistically, we reconceptualize the traditional definitional boundaries of… read more here.
Keywords: violence; crime decline; state violence; crime ... See more keywords
Public Order and State Violence
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DOI: 10.1215/01636545-8092750
Abstract: The corpus of law texts surviving from tenth-century England reveals a society that sought to maintain public order without anything resembling a police force. Rather than envisioning order as the product of state coercion, the… read more here.
Keywords: public order; order; state violence; order state ... See more keywords
Always Already Military: Police, Public Safety, and State Violence
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DOI: 10.1353/aq.2019.0041
Abstract: Abstract:To explore the concepts of military and civilian spheres, this essay engages a US federal body created to train foreign police, the Office of Public Safety (1962–74). It follows the justification, rise, and termination of… read more here.
Keywords: public safety; military civilian; state violence;
Humiliation, Resistance and State Violence: Using the Sociology of Emotions to Understand Institutional Violence Against Women and Girls and Their Acts of Resistance
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DOI: 10.5204/ijcjsd.1693
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between state violence in the form of practices aimed to humiliate and acts of resistance to these practices. Focusing on the experiences of women and girls in the Parramatta Female… read more here.
Keywords: humiliation; violence; sociology; resistance ... See more keywords