Violence in Society

Transitioning Education in Africa: External Education Providers, Emergencies, and Authoritarian Structures explores how transitions from education ...

Richard Wright analyzes the current state of violence in America, the criminal justice system’s response, and the experiences of survivors in the a...

This book examines the significance of Malcolm X as a social theorist. Though Malcolm X has been studied and written about extensively, this is the...

Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond th...

IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but i...

An interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violence Despite the growing interest in the subject of g...

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...

Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phen...

Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly wh...

High-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the...

American War Stories asks readers to contemplate what traditionally constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalization ...

American War Stories asks readers to contemplate what traditionally constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalization ...

War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which r...

Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of “imm...

Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in ar...

***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...

Alt-Right Gangs provides a timely and necessary discussion of youth-oriented groups within the white power movement. Focusing on how these groups f...

This study analyses Kurdish Hizbullah as a social movement, charting Hizbullah's development from its origins in violent militancy to its move towa...