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International audience ; Entre « afro-pessimisme » et « afro-optimisme », le refus des alternatives abusives commande le réalisme. Ainsi sur la violence, qui n'est pas seulement sociale et politique, mais qui relève aussi d'une « microphysique du pouvoir » décelable dans l'ordinaire des rapports sociaux : entre l'individu et la communauté prompte à sacrifier celui-ci comme victime émissaire d'une « logique totalitaire », entre hommes et femmes ou entre aînés et cadets, entre conjoints, entre locataires et propriétaires ou entre maîtres et élèves. On débouche alors sur l'hypothèse d'une circularité entre les violences ordinaires, enracinées dans la longue durée historique et culturelle, et les violences extrêmes, liées aux situations contemporaines de crise économique ou politique : les premières surdéterminant spécifiquement les secondes, les secondes exacerbant les premières.

International audience ; Entre « afro-pessimisme » et « afro-optimisme », le refus des alternatives abusives commande le réalisme. Ainsi sur la violence, qui n'est pas seulement sociale et politique, mais qui relève aussi d'une « microphysique du pouvoir » décelable dans l'ordinaire des rapports sociaux : entre l'individu et la communauté prompte à sacrifier celui-ci comme victime émissaire d'une « logique totalitaire », entre hommes et femmes ou entre aînés et cadets, entre conjoints, entre locataires et propriétaires ou entre maîtres et élèves. On débouche alors sur l'hypothèse d'une circularité entre les violences ordinaires, enracinées dans la longue durée historique et culturelle, et les violences extrêmes, liées aux situations contemporaines de crise économique ou politique : les premières surdéterminant spécifiquement les secondes, les secondes exacerbant les premières.

TO STUDY VIOLENCE WITHIN RELIGION IS TO CONFRONT A PARADOX. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PARADOX, FOCUSING FOR THE MOST PART, ON THE PLACE OF VIOLENCE IN THE RELIGION OF PRIMITIVE OR PRE-STATE SOCIETIES. IT ADDRESSES THE QUESTION OF VIOLENCE IN A NON-WESTERN WORLD RELGION, ISLAM, WITHIN THE COMPARATIVE CONTEXT ESTABLISHED EARLY IN THE ARTICLE AND CONCLUDES THE THE SACRIFICIAL CHANNELING OF VIOLENCE AGAINST VIOLENCE IS ALWAYS IN DANGER OF SPILLING OVER INTO RENEWED REVENGE CYCLES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST VIOLENCE, ULTIMATELY RESULTING IN THE CONFUSION OF RITUAL AND HISTORY.

This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide. Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic imagination alike. Written by leading authorities in postcolonial studies and African history, as well as highly promising emergent scholars, this book highlights political, social and cultural processes in Africa which incite violence or which facilitate its negotiation or negation through.

"Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it. Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology and ideology, gender, nation-states, and the media by covering several foundational questions: how has violence been defined, historically and geographically? has it decreased or increased over time? which regions of the world are the most violent? does violence correlate with economies, political systems, and religions? what is the relationship of gender and violence? what role do the media play? This book is a powerful introduction to the study of violence, ideal for students and researchers across the human sciences, most notably sociology, American and area studies, history, media and communication studies, politics, literature, and cultural studies"--

"Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it. Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology and ideology, gender, nation-states, and the media by covering several foundational questions: how has violence been defined, historically and geographically? has it decreased or increased over time? which regions of the world are the most violent? does violence correlate with economies, political systems, and religions? what is the relationship of gender and violence? what role do the media play? This book is a powerful introduction to the study of violence, ideal for students and researchers across the human sciences, most notably sociology, American and area studies, history, media and communication studies, politics, literature, and cultural studies"--