Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …a group’s identity and sustain that identity and, ultimately, translate into a basis for future violence. Third, it explores the politics of “dominant” and “subordinate” memories of war and violence…
Geographic Perspectives on the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 in Central and East Java …hundred thousand, these killings comprised the single most traumatic political event in the history of independent Indonesia. Directed against people affiliated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), the violence killed…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …in Southern Thailand Laura Blume (University of Nevada, Reno) Cataloguing Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central America Abby Cordova (University of Notre Dame) Violence against Women and Political…
Postcolonial Aspirations and Intimacies of Violence Among Gebusi of the Nomad Area, Papua New GuineaandThe Role of Culture in the Early Evolution of Human Violence …can have a powerful impact on the rate of human violence. This finding lends credence to the notion that human violence is a solvable problem and is not an intrinsic…
Distinctive Characteristics of Marital Violence The study of violence has become increasingly specialized. Researchers and policy makers focus on such topics as domestic violence, sexual assault, or violence between strangers. Specialization can be beneficial, but…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2024 Distinguished Scholars …creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa The HFG research and subsequent book, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, is an attempt to think about the implications of pervasive spiritual insecurity for the postapartheid democratic state…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …as evidence that enforcement operations in economically (or politically) valuable territories for criminal operations are a trigger for violence. Other international cases of peace among criminal organizations follow similar patterns….
“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams …of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion…
Scrutinizing the Gray Zones: Dynamics of Collective Violence in Contemporary Argentina …established political actors, I argue, count in the making of collective violence and in routine political life. The research scrutinizes the gray zone where the actions and networks of both…
