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In this paper, we explore forms of statist violence in both colonial and postcolonial contexts to underscore it as a constant in a postcolonial location like Nigeria. In addition to exploring how statist violence works, we also position civic dissent as a strategy employed in the colony and postcolony to confront statist violence. Our theorization of "violence-as-norm" is motivated by earlier ideas like the works of the South Asian Subaltern Studies Collective, Tejumola Olaniyan's "postcolonial incredible," Toyin Falola's views on violence within Nigerian history, and Achille Mbembe's notions of banality and vulgarity in the postcolony. Our paper engages with Peter Omoko's Majestic Revolt to demonstrate how "violence-as-norm" mediates colonial violence and civic dissent. Furthermore, by close-reading Chiedozie Omeje's "When Cowards Win," we explore postcolonial forms of violence through the EndSARS movement against police brutality in Nigeria to demonstrate how civic dissent is performed and ruptured in the contemporary moment. Ultimately, our research positions the Fanonist category of violence as a way to imagine the inherent coloniality of postcolonial nation-states, thereby extending the critique of the nation-form in postcolonial studies.

Brydon reviews 'Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989' by Barbara M. Cooper.

The civil society concept is popularly multidisciplinary in utility and reference, yet, modernity has witnessed its worst misapplications and abuse, so much that it is controversially contended to be both something and nothing. This historical exploration of its origin and founding values had discovered the point of departure and distortions to its pristine virtue and its eventual abuse. It is argued that the pristine civil society maintained a Pareto elite/mass balance until the tragic rise of feudalism and the Church in socio-political calculations of the middle ages. The ensuing scenarios ensured the tragic crippling of the civil society; the triumph of the elite and the inconsequentiality of the masses. The elite have since consolidated on the post Westphalian and Industrial Revolution gains to redefine and manipulate the concept, firstly, towards the continual political ignominy of the masses, and, secondly, for perpetual elite dominance of the state, and the academia have been duped into complicity with the elite. The case is thus made on the imperative of a proper conceptualisation that would fine-tune the modern state in line with the progressive minds of the classical statesmen that fashioned the original civil society.

The civil society concept is popularly multidisciplinary in utility and reference, yet, modernity has witnessed its worst misapplications and abuse, so much that it is controversially contended to be both something and nothing. This historical exploration of its origin and founding values had discovered the point of departure and distortions to its pristine virtue and its eventual abuse. It is argued that the pristine civil society maintained a Pareto elite/mass balance until the tragic rise of feudalism and the Church in socio-political calculations of the middle ages. The ensuing scenarios ensured the tragic crippling of the civil society; the triumph of the elite and the inconsequentiality of the masses. The elite have since consolidated on the post Westphalian and Industrial Revolution gains to redefine and manipulate the concept, firstly, towards the continual political ignominy of the masses, and, secondly, for perpetual elite dominance of the state, and the academia have been duped into complicity with the elite. The case is thus made on the imperative of a proper conceptualisation that would fine-tune the modern state in line with the progressive minds of the classical statesmen that fashioned the original civil society.

Introduction to this special issue of Moderna språk.
This special issue of Moderna Språk contains articles on Swedish mediators who have introduced, translated and reviewed literary texts from the Romance languages. More specifically, the contributions are the outcome of the symposium "Litteraturförmedlare i Sverige från 1945 till våra dagar" ('Literary mediators in Sweden from 1945 until today') which took place at Stockholm University 11–12 June 2015.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 The Psychology of Social Justice -- Justice as a Philosophical or Theological Concern -- Justice as a Subjective Issue -- What Is the Psychology of Social Justice About? -- Self-interest, the Instrumental Model, and the Image of Human Nature -- The Framework of Social Justice Research -- The Field of Social Justice -- 2 Relative Deprivation -- Why Is Relative Deprivation Important? -- Clarifying the Meaning of Relative Deprivation -- Choice of Comparison Referent -- Comparisons with Oneself at Other Points in Time (Temporal Comparisons) -- Comparisons With Other People -- Individual Versus Group Relative Deprivation -- Conceptualizing Social Identities -- Multiple Sources of Comparison Information -- Cognitive Antecedents of Relative Deprivation -- Advantaged Groups -- Problems for the Future -- The Hedonic Treadmill -- The Missing Piece -- Part 2 Is Justice Important to People's Feelings and Attitudes? -- 3 Distributive Justice -- Equity Theory -- The Criteria Used to Evaluate Distributive Justice -- Micro Versus Macro Distributive Justice -- The Domain of Distributive Justice Concerns -- 4 Procedural Justice -- Procedural Justice Research -- Implications for Future Procedural Justice Research -- Research Findings -- Social Policy Support -- A Broader Procedural Justice Framework -- Legitimacy -- Procedure and the Effective Functioning of Society -- Procedural Justice Criteria -- Micro Versus Macro Procedural Justice -- Societal Implications -- 5 Retributive Justice -- What Is Retribution? -- America as a Retributive Society -- Why Are People Punitive? -- Retribution in the Future: Will the Future Become the Past? -- Retribution as a Basic Human Motivation -- Retributive Justice in Organized Groups.