Political Violence during the German Occupation of France 1940-44: A Micro-Level Analysis …all violent events described in the CH2GM’s card file. Several dozen French-speaking research assistants worked together to read every card; identify those that described violent repression by the Axis occupation…
Cataloging Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central America …over one hundred public figures killed since 2015, corresponding to rising repression and authoritarianism under the Ortega regime. Notably, the violence against public figures increased before the massive prodemocracy protests…
The 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion: Last Battle of the Sino-Japanese War? …devote equal attention to the Taiwanese insurgency, which can only be understood in light of Japanese colonization, and to the repression carried out by KMT forces, which bears the mark…
Local Government Violence and Rights Struggles in Contemporary Rural China …breaking the cycle of protest and violent repression. Its main findings are as follows. First, individuals who have stronger trust in the Chinese central government are more likely to organize…
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere …as the legitimating semiology of domination in recent state violence points to the magical invocation of the memory of economic domination in the performance culture of political repression. Racialized and…
Throwing “Paper Stones”: Argentina’s Institutional Collapse …the number of social protests and the violent repression of those protests. The explanations of the crisis tend to describe it as the product of the character of “corrupt politicians”…
Armed Politics and the State in Post-Colonial Asia …and the agency of the armed groups themselves help explain more fine-grained patterns of armed order. This argument helps us understand why governments often devote massive repression toward groups that…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …occasional concessions and repression. Others respond by creating new federal units, decentralizing political institutions, and recognizing ethnic differences through policies such as ethnic preferences in government and employment. The comparative…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …in Comparative Perspective Liana Woskie (London School of Economics). Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org |…
Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …extreme demand for resources but not necessarily because of it). The archive further demonstrates colonial law’s selective recognition of Black people’s agency through criminality alone. The repression of sexual violence…