White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …group transformation and change in the economic and political climate? To answer these questions, I, together with my Russian collaborators, conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with young people who…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …role was not always univocal, and by controlling violence, it did not merely intend to reduce the number of massacres, but also to marginalize and remove other political actors from…
Klan Violence/Local Violence in Reconstruction-Era Union County: A Social Network Analysis …did work to restore the social, political, and economic forms of the antebellum period, contemporary rural white Southerners often experienced the Klan as a modernizing process through which they could…
From Coltan to Cattle: Unearthing Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo …My paper published in 2013 entitled “Beyond Minerals” in the Review of African Political Economy highlights the findings from these earlier investigations. The paper illustrates the diversity of resources drawn upon by…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …more recognized forms of political power. This racial violence terrorized local populations, shaped local politics, and at times, advanced a national agenda. In the mid-nineteenth century, this political violence, and…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War …of Julius Nyerere, the godfather of Africa’s liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures…
Malvinas/Falklands War: Argentine Experiences of the 1982 Conflict Through Letters, War Diaries, and Amateur Photographs by Soldiers and Civilians Mobilized During the War …cause” in Argentine political culture and also an idealization about Patagonia and Malvinas. Additionally, I found a large amount of correspondence from civilians who were volunteers to go to islands…
“You Can Reduce Violence But Harm People”: A Conversation with Caterina Roman …to fall into two categories: an effort to score political points or a search for simple, silver-bullet answers to what’s going on. I talk to my students a lot about…
“Violence and the Law at War”: Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones Dr. Craig Jones is the author of The War Lawyers and a lecturer in political geography in the School of Geography, Sociology, and Politics at Newcastle University. “Violence and…
