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"This title was first published in 2001. The modern state's claim to a monopoly of legitimate force bestows the concomitant duty of preventing the resort to violence by non-state actors. Consequently, failure to do so often leads to debates, concerning the legitimation of the perpetrators themselves and the legitimation of the authorities who were unable or unwilling to prevent their violent actions. Narratives of Violence constitutes the first work which relates these stigma contests to each other by analyzing the public discourse about right-wing violence in Israel. The result is an absorbing book which provides a fundamental re-evaluation of the causes and consequences of political violence and its societal boundaries. Its conclusions will have a resounding impact on the Israeli body politic and for democratic governments around the world."--Provided by publisher.

1. Being 'a Racist' or Being a Rapist: Race and Gender in the Trial of an Elite Australian Footballer, Deb Watson -- 2. Stereotypes, credibility and adversarial justice in English rape trials, Olivia Smith -- 3. Evoking culture and place in news narratives about the gang rapes in Rissne and Stureplan, Gabriella Nilsson -- 4. Story Worlds in the Making: Intersectional Narratives of Rape in the Case of Hagaman in the Swedish Press, Mona Livholts -- 5. Platform Vernaculars and Narratives of Rape: Intersectional Analysis of Sexual Assault on Twitter and Tumblr, Kaitlynn Mendes -- 6. Blurred situations – young people's reasoning on sexual consent and boundaries in sexual situations, Charlotta Holmström and Lars Plantin -- 7. Revisiting Feminist Debates on Discourse and Experience: The case of men's unwanted sexual encounters, Lena Gunnarsson -- 8. Sex and power: How power relations are hidden in the Finnish law on rape and sexual harassment, Johanna Niemi -- 9. Intersectionality and agency in Swedish court narratives of rape: a historical perspective 1990-2013, Monika Edgren -- 10. Consent, Agency, and the Victim-Perpetrator Dyad in Vulnerability Theory, Stu Marvel -- 11. Rape that is rampant but not recognized in Law: Women's Narratives on Marital Rape in India, Nishi Mitra vom Berg -- 12. The legal and the sexual – Framing sexuality in a setting of rape law and practice. Ulrika Andersson -- 13. Rape Narratives and 'Trial By Social Media': The Intersectional Politics of Online Witnessing, Tanya Serisier -- 14. 'I just wanted to tell my story…': Survivor narratives of sexual violence in digital society, Tully O'Neill and Anastasia Powell -- 15. Testimony received? Hearing/refuting/supporting narratives of sexual violence online, Lena Karlsson

It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it, or otherwise oppose it in favour of a programme of desecularization or resacralization. The aim of this book is to identify some of the major genres of the history of secularization and to explore their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes.ã The contributors to the volume offer different perspectives on these questions, not least because a number of them are themselves participants in the cultural-political programs described above. The primary purpose of this book, however, is the identification of such programs rather than their promotion. Overall, the collection seeks to bring analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization and help explain the co-existence of apparently conflicting stories about the origins of Western modernity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal

"The book provides an extensive analysis of extremism, extremist narratives and counter-narratives and their role in consolidating exclusive religious, cultural and social identities in Pakistan. Focusing on the construction and institutionalization of extremist tendencies, the book studies the process of the adoption of the narrow interpretation of religion and society, which subsequently was equated with national identity. It looks at the efforts of counter-extremism narratives, which tend to focus on violent extremism while overlooking non-violent manifestations. The author highlights that the main issue with counter-narratives is the difficulty in presenting extremism and its narratives as a threat since they have been normalized with the state being part of facilitating and building them. A valuable and much-required contribution to the existing literature on extremism and narrative building in Pakistan, this book would help students, academics and policymakers in identifying the limitations of counter-narratives in Pakistan, while providing them with a detailed overview of extremism and extremist narratives. It will also be of interest to researchers studying Security Studies and Asian Politics, especially in the context of South Asia"--

"2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over twenty years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide's social history. Examining a range of marginal stories and using Rwanda as a case study, The Marginalized in Genocide Narratives' analysis of the transformation of genocide into a powerful narrative of a nation establishes an innovative means of understanding the lived spaces of violence and its enduring legacy. In a distinctive approach to the social history of genocide, this book engages with the marginalised, foregrounds genocide's untold stories; and uses the conceptual framework of the constellation of genocide narratives to create connections among multiple social actors and identify narrative themes that address the unequal power and interdependence of narratives. Adopting a multi-level narrative methodology that addresses the value of multiple narrative framings for understanding genocides, The Marginalized in Genocide Narratives will appeal to students and researchers interested in sociology, conflict and peace studies history, African studies and narrative research. It may also appeal to policy makers interested in genocide studies and contemporary social history"--

In diesem Lehrbuch werden interessierte Studierende ebenso wie Berufspraktiker mit der Forschungslandschaft und dem analytischen Instrumentarium des narrativen Interviews vertraut gemacht. Das narrative Interview als Erhebungs- und Analyseverfahren stellt eine besonders einfühlsame und behutsame Form des offenen Interviews dar, die insbesondere der professionellen sozialen Arbeit im Hinblick auf die Erkundung und Analyse komplexer und hochdifferenzierter Lebenswelten und Problemlagen ihrer Klientel entgegenkommt. In diesem Lehrbuch werden interessierte Studierende ebenso wie Berufspraktiker sozusagen an die Hand genommen und mit der Forschungslandschaft und dem analytischen Instrumentarium des Forschungsverfahrens vertraut gemacht. Das Kernstück des Bandes bildet die Transkription eines autobiographisch-narrativen Interviews, dessen inhaltliche und formal-strukturelle Darstellung mit dem Leser nachvollzogen wird.

PART I: Introducing Discourse and Narrative Methods -- Chapter 1. The Becoming of a Textbook. A Readers Guide -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and Methodological Departures in Contested Fields of Study -- Chapter 3. Themes: Media and Society, Gender and Space, Autobiography and Life Writing PART II: Narrative and Discourse: Making Connections -- Chapter 4. Narrative Phenomena: Entanglements and Intra-Actions in Narrative Research -- Chapter 5. Discourse, Authoring and Performativity -- Chapter 6. Narrative Modalities of Power -- Chapter 7. Discourse, Power and Representation -- Chapter 8. Narrative as force -- Chapter 9. Discourses as Embodied Genealogies -- Chapter 10. Narrative and the Political PART III: Situated and Reflective Writing Sessions -- Chapter 11. A Politics of Location in Discourse and Narrative Methods -- Chapter 12. Working with Diaries and Letters -- Chapter 13. Working with Memories -- Chapter 14. Untimely Academic Novella Writing

Der Band thematisiert die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Religion, die heute grundsätzlich unter widersprüchlichen Vorzeichen steht: Einerseits hält sich nach wie vor die Vorstellung vom Siegeszug der Säkularisierung, der zufolge die Bedeutung von Religion für die Gesellschaft insgesamt abnimmt. Andererseits wird behauptet, dass die Säkularisierung ein Mythos ist, der sich einer notorischen Unterschätzung der Beharrungs- und Wandlungsfähigkeit von Religion verdankt. In diesem Spannungsfeld verorten und diskutieren die Beiträge das omnipräsente Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religion unter theoretischen und empirischen Gesichtspunkten. < Der Inhalt Mit Beiträgen von Philipp W. Hildmann, Oliver Hidalgo, Markus Krienke, Andreas Nix, Jochen Bohn, Johannes Fioole, Michael Reder, Hanna Pfeifer, Gert Pickel, Anja Hennig, Michael Minkenberg, Zeynep Yanasmayan, Maximilian Overbeck, Maria Grazia Martino, Konstantinos Papastathis, Christo Karabadjakov, Said AlDailami, Holger Zapf, Tingjian Cai. Die Zielgruppen · Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler · Religionswissenschaftlerinnen und Religionswissenschaftler Die Herausgeber Dr. Holger Zapf ist Akademischer Rat am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Göttingen. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo ist Privatdozent am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg. Dr. Philipp W. Hildmann ist Beauftragter für Interkulturellen Dialog und Leiter des Büros der Stiftungsvorsitzenden der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung in München

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts to improve the 'quality of life' of its residents and to attract wealthier new residents in the future by examining the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration.