Violence and Society: Toward a New Sociology

Jane Kilby is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. She is the author of Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma (2007).

Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violenceDevelops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and societyIncorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor and shame, violence and identity, and politics and violenceAllows us to better understand the world we live in

Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.

About the Editors xAcknowledgements xiIntroduction: Making Sense of Violence 1Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe BourgoisPart I: Conquest and Colonialism 331 From Heart of Darkness 35Joseph Conrad2 Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Puyumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 39Michael Taussig3 From Ishi in Two worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America 54Theodora Kroeber4 Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide 61Nancy Scheper-Hughes5 Tribal Warfare 69R. Brian Ferguson6 From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass 74Robert J. GordonPart II: The Holocaust 777 Right of Death and Power Over Life 79Michel Foucault8 The Gray Zone 83Primo Levi9 From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91Hannah Arendt10 Initiation to Mass Murder: The Józefów Massacre 101Christopher R. Browning11 From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 109Tadeusz Borowski12 From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began 118Art SpiegelmanPart III: The Politics of Communal Violence 12113 From "Hellhounds" 123Leon F. Litwack14 From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania 129Liisa H. Malkki15 From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 136Philip GourevitchPart IV: Why do People Kill? 14316 Behavioral Study of Obedience 145Stanley Milgram17 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage 150Renato Rosaldo18 Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor 157Alexander Laban HintonPart V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars 16919 Talking Terror 171Michael Taussig20 Bodies, Death, and Silence 175Nancy Scheper-Hughes21 Living in a State of Fear 186Linda Green22 Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children 196Jean Franco23 The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War 200Antonius Robben24 On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King 207Allen Feldman25 The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 217Noam Chomsky26 Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/11 224Nancy Scheper-HughesPart VI: Violence and Political Resistance 22727 Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth 229Jean-Paul Sartre28 From On Violence 236Hannah Arendt29 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence 244Begoña Aretxaga30 Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp 253Nancy Scheper-HughesPart VII: Peacetime Crimes: Everyday Violence 26731 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege 269Michael Taussig32 Symbolic Violence 272Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant33 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death 275Nancy Scheper-Hughes34 On suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 281Paul Farmer35 Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua 290James Quesada36 "The Lower Classes Smell," from Road to Wigan Pier 297George Orwell37 US Inner-City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence 301Philippe Bourgois38 Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave 308Eric Klinenberg39 The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto 318Loïc WacquantPart VIII: Gendered Violence 32540 Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 327Veena Das41 From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War 334Mark Danner42 Gender and Symbolic Violence 339Pierre Bourdieu43 The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape 343Philippe Bourgois44 Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks 348Stephen Donaldson45 Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intell