Violence in Society

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, o...

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, w...

Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened t...

The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the r...

Lock your windows. Lock your door. And don’t look outside…At the local university a series of incidents is raising alarm. Someone is breaking into ...

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes...

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as indifferent to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the...

Gunya is a woman in her late twenties. Soldiers of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) abducted her when she was eleven years old and forcefully conscr...

Out of War draws on the author's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war whose legacy i...

Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In ...

Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an arche...

This timely book presents a datadriven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. As school violence receives increasing attention a...

At least 200,000 people have died in Mexicos so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso,...

'ISIS and the Pornography of Violence' is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 20...

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the ...