Identity And Violence

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780141027807
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Violence written by Amartya Sen and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670999217
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity & Violence written by Amartya Sen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World May Be More Riven By Murderous Violence Than Ever Before, Yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Argues In This Sweeping Philosophical Work That Its Brutalities Are Driven As Much By Confusion As By Inescapable Hatred. Sen Argues In His New Book That Conflict And Violence Are Sustained Today, No Less Than The Past, By The Illusion Of A Unique Identity. Indeed, The World Is Increasingly Taken To Be Divided Between Religions (Or 'Cultures' Or 'Civilizations'), Ignoring The Relevance Of Other Ways In Which People See Themselves Through Class, Gender, Profession, Language, Literature, Science, Music, Morals Or Politics, And Denying The Real Possibilities Of Reasoned Choices. In Identity And Violence&Nbsp;He Overturns Such Stereotypes As The 'The Monolithic Middle East' Or 'The Western Mind'. Through His Penetrating Investigation Of Such Subjects As Multiculturalism, Fundamentalism, Terrorism And Globalization, He Brings Out The Need For A Clear-Headed Understanding Of Human Freedom And A Constructive Public Voice In Global Civil Society. The World, Sen Shows, Can Be Made To Move Towards Peace As Firmly As It Has Recently Spiralled Towards War.

Author : Rainuka Dagar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317341600
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Identity and Violence written by Rainuka Dagar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India’s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book explores girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female infanticide and foeticide, and the role of caste and religion. The book spans critical socio-historical contexts and examines the practice of selective right to life. It views the effects of militancy and khaap panchayats, and studies women’s rights discourses and protective legal reforms. The gender imbalance is mapped globally and analysed in the specific conditions of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. The book examines the inter-linkages of gender hierarchies with male child preference and warns that theoretical analyses limited to female foeticide alone cannot address gender inequalities or change the cycle of violence. This will be valuable to scholars and researchers of gender and women studies, sociology, politics, and population and demographic studies. It will also be indispensable for women’s rights activists, NGOs, policy makers, government bodies, and those studying health and family planning.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243192
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) written by Amartya Sen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.

Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804729963
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination written by Hent de Vries and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of “ethnic cleansing” and “identity politics,” the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities, whether individual or collective, political or cultural, religious or secular. In particular, they subject the notion of self-determination to stringent scrutiny: is it to be understood as a value that excludes violence, in principle if not always in practice? Or is its relation to violence more complex and, perhaps, more sinister? Reconsideration of the concepts, the practice, and even the critique of violence requires an exploration of the implications and limitations of the more familiar interpretations of the terms that have dominated in the history of Western thought. To this end, the nineteen contributors address the concept of violence from a variety of perspectives in relation to different forms of cultural representation, and not in Western culture alone; in literature and the arts, as well as in society and politics; in philosophical discourse, psychoanalytic theory, and so-called juridical ideology, as well as in colonial and post-colonial practices and power relations. The contributors are Giorgio Agamben, Ali Behdad, Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Michael Dillon, Peter Fenves, Stathis Gourgouris, Werner Hamacher, Beatrice Hanssen, Anselm Haverkamp, Marian Hobson, Peggy Kamuf, M. B. Pranger, Susan M. Shell, Peter van der Veer, Hent de Vries, Cornelia Vismann, and Samuel Weber.

Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705936
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Name of Identity written by Amin Maalouf and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Name of Identity is as close to summer reading as philosophy gets. It is a personal, sometimes even intimate, account of identity-in-the-world, not a treatise on the thorny metaphysics of identity. A novelist by trade, Amin Maalouf is a fluid writer, and he is aided by Barbara Bray's award-winning translation. His aim is to illuminate the roots of violence and hatred, which he sees in tribalistic forms of identity. He argues that our convictions and notions of identity--whether cultural, religious, national, or ethnic--are socially habituated and frequently dangerous. We'd give them up, he argues, if we thought more closely about them.Though the book has been heralded as radical and surprising, Maalouf essentially espouses an Enlightenment sensibility, a faith in the brotherhood of man. He is a believer in progress, arguing that "the wind of globalisation, while it could lead us to disaster, could also lead us to success." In fact, he envisions a globalized world in which our local identities are subordinated to a broader "allegiance to the human community itself." Maalouf wants us to retain our distinctiveness, but he wants it subsumed under the nave of common understanding. --Eric de Place

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The sense of identity can be a source of strength and confidence, but it can also be a source of exclusion and even violence. It can help us warmly welcome others, but it can also lead to the exclusion of others. #2 The world is full of examples of how identity conflicts can lead to violence. For example, the Sudanese Islamic identity combined with exploitation of racial divisions to lead to the raping and killing of unarmed victims in the south of that militarized polity. #3 We must recognize the power of competing identities to challenge the force of a bellicose identity. We must also understand that none of our identities is supreme, and that we can choose which ones we want to be a part of and which ones we want to ignore. #4 The existence of choice does not mean that there are no constraints restricting choice. Every choice in any field is made within particular limits. The freedom to determine our loyalties and priorities between the different groups to which we may belong is a particularly important liberty that we should recognize, value, and defend.

Author : Esther Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351513877
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity Conflicts written by Esther Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social conflicts are ubiquitous and inherent in organized social life. This volume examines the origins and regulation of violent identity conflicts. It focuses on the regulation of conflict: the constraining, directing, and repression of violence through institutional rules and understandings. The core question the authors address is how violence is regulated and the social and political consequences of such regulation. The contributors provide a multidisciplinary multi-regional analysis of identity conflicts and their regulation. The chapters focus on the forging and suppression of religious and ethnic identities, problematic national identities, the recreation of identity in post-conflict peace-building efforts, and the forging of collective identities in the process of democratic state building. The instances of violent conflict treated here range across the globe from Central and South America, to Asia, to the Balkans, and to the Islamic world. One of the key findings is that conflicts involving religious, ethnic, or national identity are inherently more violence prone and require distinctive methods of regulation. Identity is a question both of power and of integrity. This means that both material and symbolic needs must be addressed in order to constrain or regulate these conflicts. Accordingly, some chapters draw on a political-economy approach that places primary emphasis on resources, organization, and interests, while others develop a cultural approach focusing on how identities are constructed, grievances defined, blame attributed, and redress articulated. This volume offers new ideas about the regulation of identity conflicts, at both the global and local level, that engage both tradition and modernization. It will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, human rights activists, historians, and anthropologists.

Author : Peter Lambert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601723
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America written by Peter Lambert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.

Author : Navnita Chadha Behera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Identity & Violence written by Navnita Chadha Behera and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Provides The Most Complete Account Of The Diverse Group Identities In Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) - Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits, Gujjars, Paharis, Dogras And Ladakhi Buddhists; Their Politicization And Demands Ranging From Affirmative Discrimination, More Autonomy And A Separate Constitutional Status To Outright Secession. It Presents The First Detailed And Critical Appraisal Of The State And Regional Autonomy Committee Reports Released In April 1999 And Adopted Partly, By The J&K State Assembly In June 2000.