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Gender Based Violence in University Communities: Policy, Prevention and Educational Initiatives
By Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis. 2018
Until recently, higher education in the UK has largely failed to recognise gender-based violence (GBV) on campus, but following the…
UK government task force set up in 2015, universities are becoming more aware of the issue. And recent cases in the media about the sexualised abuse of power in institutions such as universities, Parliament and Hollywood highlight the prevalence and damaging impact of GBV. In this book, academics and practitioners provide the first in-depth overview of research and practice in GBV in universities. They set out the international context of ideologies, politics and institutional structures that underlie responses to GBV in elsewhere in Europe, in the US, and in Australia, and consider the implications of implementing related policy and practice. Presenting examples of innovative British approaches to engagement with the issue, the book also considers UK, EU and UN legislation to give an international perspective, making it of direct use to discussions of ‘what works’ in preventing GBV.Money for Everyone: Why We Need a Citizen's Income
By Malcolm Torry. 2013
Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes…
called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. This much-needed book, written by an experienced researcher and author, is the first for over a decade to analyse the social, economic and labour market advantages of a Citizen's Income in the UK. It demonstrates that it would be simple and cheap to administer, would reduce inequality, enhance individual freedom and would be good for the economy, social cohesion, families, and the employment market. It also contains international comparisons and links with broader issues around the meaning of poverty and inequality, making a valuable contribution to the debate around benefits. Accessibly written, this is essential reading for policy-makers, researchers, teachers, students, and anyone interested in the future of our society and our economyUpdated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America
By Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick. 2014
This digital update to Reducing Gun Violence in America presents new evidence and developments in the effort to address the…
staggering toll of gun violence in the United States.In 2013—in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world’s leading experts on gun violence. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America follows up on the state of American gun violence by analyzing new data, research, and policy developments one year after Sandy Hook. Over the course of ten substantive chapter addendums, contributors bring readers up-to-date on such varied topics as mental illness, domestic violence, background checks, illegal gun sales, and personalized guns. They describe the recent policy measures that have been enacted and suggest additional approaches that may help stem the violence. An essential companion to Reducing Gun Violence in America, the reliable, empirical research and legal analysis in this e-book will help lawmakers, opinion leaders, and concerned citizens identify policy changes to address gun violence, which takes an average of more than 80 lives every day in the United States.Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
By Edited by Alice Wong. 2020
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for…
young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." --Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition).The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be &“fixed,&” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.A Random Act: An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive
By Cindi Broaddus, Kimberly Lohman Suiters. 2005
Cindi Broaddus didn't realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the passenger seat…
of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early morning hours of June 5, 2001. The sister-in-law of Dr. Phil McGraw, a single mother of three, and a delighted new grandmother, she was thinking only of her imminent, well-earned vacation when a gallon glass jar filled with sulfuric acid, tossed from an overpass by an unknown assailant, came crashing through the windshield. In a heartbeat, Cindi was showered with glass and flesh-eating liquid, leaving her blinded, screaming in agony, and burned almost beyond recognition. When she reached the hospital, the attending doctors gave her little better than a 30 percent chance of survival. But Cindi Broaddus did survive--and after excruciating years of recuperation and seemingly endless sessions of skin grafts and reconstructive surgery, she emerged from her ordeal in many ways stronger than she had ever been before. This book includes picture descriptions.Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization
By David Livingstone Smith. 2021
A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted…
that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn’t. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphor—dehumanization really does happen in our minds. Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the politics of demonization and violence.Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice
By Edward Humes. 1991
Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space (The Ethnography of Political Violence)
By Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein and Seda Altuğ. 2022
The turn to the nonhuman in the humanities and social sciences has arguably been mobilized through a washing away of…
political violence, its histories, and its traces. Reverberations aims to redress this problem by methodologically and conceptually placing political violence and nonhuman entities side by side. The volume generates a new framework for the study of political violence and its protracted aftermath by attending, through innovative ethnographic and historical studies, to its distribution, extension, and endurance across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and imaginations. Collectively, in the study of political violence, the contributions focus on human agencies and experiences in engagement with nonhuman entities such as objects, land, fields, houses, buildings, treasures, trees, spirits, saints, and prophets. In a variety of contexts, the scholars herein ask the crucial question: What can be learned about political violence by analyzing it in the terrain of relationality between human beings and nonhuman entities? How are things such as objects, spaces, natural phenomena, or spiritual beings entwined in histories of political violence? And vice versa—how are histories of political violence implicated in nonhuman things?Somos sobrevivientes: Crónicas de abuso sexual en la infancia
By Felix Bruzzone, Claudia Piñeiro, Sergio Olguín. 2021
Ocho escritores entrevistaron a ocho sobrevivientes de abuso sexual en la infancia y nos cuentan sus historias. ¿Cómo se narra…
el abuso? ¿Cómo se rompe el secreto que el abusador impone con amenazas? ¿Cómo se habla de un dolor y una vergüenza que la mayoría de las veces ocurre dentro de la familia? ¿Cómo se cuenta que alguien ha sido sometido por un padre, una madre, un hermano, un abuelo, un vecino? Este es un libro incómodo, habla de la violencia ejercida por adultos contra menores de edad que dejaron marcas y condicionaron sus vidas. Habla de situaciones difíciles que ocurrieron en infancias que no fueron cuidadas, en las que se abusó de su confianza, de su integridad física y de su salud mental. Ocho escritores escucharon a ocho sobrevivientes de abuso y contaron sus historias desde un lugar de empatía y de denuncia con la mejor herramienta que poseen: la palabra. Ahí donde el silencio es cómplice del abusador, la palabra es aliada de las víctimas. Las historias reflejadas en esta antología permiten ver más allá de lo silenciado, conectando dolores solitarios con el dolor común, en una invitación a dejar de callar y animarnos a soñar juntos con un futuro más luminoso. «Sentí mucha vergüenza: yo me había casado con esta bestia. De pronto soy esa nena y todos mis demonios me rodean, me dañan, me atomizan.»Claudia Aboaf habla con Silvia «Blas no es de hablar mucho [...]. Pero después de un tiempo sí, empezó a hablar. Antes de la denuncia, y antes de las amenazas [...]. Habla Blas. Dice encierros. Dice toqueteos. Habla de violencia física.»Félix Bruzzone habla con G. «Yo de chica fui abusada por un vecino. [...] ¿Y a quién le iba a decir en ese momento? Lo que esperaba todo el mundo era que mi papá abusara de mí o de alguno de mis hermanos, y no pasó. Pero este vecino sí.»Gabriela Cabezón Cámara habla con Nadia «Varias veces papá quiere entrar a mi cuarto, sigue convencido de que puede hacerme lo que quiere, grito antes que pueda ponerme una mano encima [...]. Mamá lo sabe y no hace nada.»Juan Carlos Kreimer habla con Tatiana «El psicólogo le preguntó su nombre, qué edad tenía, a qué colegio iba, cuántos hermanos..., finalmente le pidió que le dijera por qué estaba ahí. Sofía respiró profundo y le dijo que había sido violada por su padre.»Fabián Martínez Siccardi habla con Sofía «Equis le vendaba los ojos. Le hacía cosas o lo obligaba a que él las hiciera. Imposible que un nene de siete u ocho años pudiera saber que se había convertido en víctima de alguien diez años mayor, de alguien que él consideraba su amigo, el mayor de sus amigos.»Sergio Olguín habla con Jota «De parte del colegio, escuché argumentos inconcebibles [...]. Dijeron que lo que había hecho con nosotros era "un juego inapropiado", lo calificaron como "cosas feas". Y que gracias a esas acciones se había encendido "una luz amarilla". La luz amarilla apenas alcanzó para trasladarlo de localidad.»Claudia Piñeiro habla con Sebastián «Mi vida actual me gusta, a veces llego a sentirme orgullosa de mí misma. Pude sanar. Pero vive adentro mío la sombra de un silencio que supo ser el mandato más poderoso, un hueco en la memoria que me llevó a olvidar eso que de todas maneras regresaba una y otra vez hecho lágrimas, angustia y bronca.»Dolores Reyes habla con Silvia BeatizRise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
By Crystal Marie Fleming. 2021
This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with…
actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists. Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed in cages? Where did racism come from? Why hasn’t it already disappeared? And what can young people do about it?Rise Up! breaks down the origins of racial injustice and its continued impact today, connecting dots between the past and present. By including contemporary examples ripped from headlines and actionable ways young people can help create a more inclusive world, sociologist Crystal Fleming shares the knowledge and values that unite all antiracists: compassion, solidarity, respect, and courage in the face of adversity. Perfect for fans of Stamped: Remix, This Book is Antiracist, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy, and The Black Friend.Praise for Rise Up!* "A clear and damning appraisal of the United States’ long-standing relationship with White supremacy—with actionable advice for readers to do better." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "A standout . . . sure to inspire young people to act." —Booklist, starred review"Rise Up! is the invigorating, thought-provoking, eye-opening, and essential book about fighting white supremacy that I wish I had when I was a teen. Crystal M. Fleming writes about tough subjects with authority and compassion, and inspires with a roadmap for how we can change the world for the better." —Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph ClubAn Introduction to Coping with Childhood Trauma (An introduction To Coping Ser.)
By Helen Kennerley. 2011
This is a new addition to the popular Introduction to Coping with series of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based self-help booklets.…
Written by the author of the bestselling self-help titles Overcoming Anxiety and Overcoming Childhood Trauma, this new title offers valuable guidance for those who have experienced trauma as a child, be it emotional, physical or sexual. This useful self-help guide looks at the psychological impact of childhood trauma and offers some helpful strategies, based on CBT, to help the sufferer start on the road to recovery. Also contains useful information on how to get specialist help. This practical booklet will also be a valuable resource for health professionals and family members.Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril - and a Teacher Who Saved Her
By Torey L. Hayden. 1994
Recounting her experiences with Jadie, a student in her class, a teacher describes how she persuaded Jadie to break her…
silence and reveal the family secrets that were plaguing her. The true story of a child who refused to speak and the teacher who finally got through to her--uncovering a dark history of child abuse and possible satanic rituals--from the bestselling author of One Child. "A testament to the powers of caring and commitment."--Publishers Weekly.'Abd al-Mu'min: Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West (Makers of the Muslim World)
By Maribel Fierro. 2021
&‘Abd al-Mu&’min (c.1094–1163) did not establish the first caliphate in the Islamic West, but his encompassed more territory than any…
that had preceded it. As leader of the Almohads, a politico-religious movement grounded in an uncompromising belief in the unity of God, he unified for the first time the whole of North Africa west of Egypt, and conquered much of southern Spain. Studying every facet of &‘Abd al-Mu&’min&’s rule, from his violent repression of opposition to the flourishing of scholarship during his reign, Maribel Fierro reveals an intelligent leader and a skilled military commander who sought to build a lasting caliphate across disparate and diverse societies.Fighting for My Life: A Prisoner's Story of Redemption
By Billy Moore. 2021
'The next round in Billy's fight is pain-racked, frank and reflective . . . an inspiring piece from a man…
who's been to hell and back and has the scars to prove it'JOE COLE'Brutally honest, dark and disturbing. A book that tells of the reality of drugs and a failing prison system'NEIL SAMWORTH, author of Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story'Billy Moore writes with such a tragic authenticity that it kept me willing for him to succeed, even as I knew he was never too far from self-destruction. It's his self-awareness that I admire - unflinching and brutal and also, it should be said, his wonderful way with words'Professor Emeritus DAVID WILSON, author of My Life with Murderers'His life may have had many ups and downs, but Billy is a wonderful example of never giving up'JAMES ENGLISH'A true story of forgiveness, not only learning to forgive others but also learning to forgive yourself. An incredibly emotional story about an incredible man who's had an incredible journey'LIAM HARRISON'This time I am telling the story of my life both before prison in Thailand and what followed once I was back in the United Kingdom, my cancer diagnosis, more prison time and, finally, redemption. I am trying to understand aspects of my childhood that had a role in my eventual downward spiral into addiction, pain, misery and loss'BILLY MOOREBilly Moore spent three years in Klong Prem prison in Thailand, popularly known as the 'Bangkok Hilton', where he witnessed acts of extreme violence and sexual assault. Eventually he found purpose through taking part in Muay Thai boxing tournaments in jail. Here, he found 'a wall of human community' amongst the elite boxers and regained his sobriety. He was granted early release by the King of Thailand having excelled as a Muay Thai boxer in inter-prison tournaments. But back in the UK and a decade later - with his demons resurfacing - Billy's past caught up with him. He was caught and convicted of a burglary and was despatched to HMP Walton under then home secretary Theresa May's three-strikes rule. Billy has spent almost twenty-two years in various prisons, but since then, he has not only survived cancer, but also gone on to become a powerful advocate of boxing and anti-knife crime initiatives in the Liverpool area, training young boxers.A Prayer Before Dawn was made into a film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and starring Joe Cole, of Peaky Blinders' fame. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, but by the time it went on general release, Billy was back in prison in the UK. In this follow-up to Billy's first international bestseller, an autobiography set largely in Thailand's infamous prison system, Billy sets out to explore his experience of childhood abuse that would lead to a life of drug addiction and near-constant incarceration. After Billy's sentence in Klong Prem prison was commuted as a result of his extraordinary success as a Muay Thai boxer, he returned to the UK.In this vividly told story, Liverpudlian Billy contrasts his first-hand experience of one of the cruellest prison systems in the world with his experience of UK prisons. The result is, in part, a shocking exposé of the inadequacy of care and the lack of humanity in British prisons. But Billy's story is mainly one of rehabilitation, recovery and redemption. Rich in detail, honesty and humour, his book is a fast-paced, unputdownable read which shows how the human spirit can endure and eventually thrive.Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond
By Natasha Iskander. 2021
An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the…
distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinctions are used to limit freedom, narrow political rights, and even deny access to imagination and desire. Natasha Iskander takes readers into Qatar’s booming construction industry in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup, and through her unprecedented look at the experiences of migrant workers, she reveals that skill functions as a marker of social difference powerful enough to structure all aspects of social and economic life.Through unique access to construction sites in Doha, in-depth research, and interviews, Iskander explores how migrants are recruited, trained, and used. Despite their acquisition of advanced technical skills, workers are commonly described as unskilled and disparaged as “unproductive,” “poor quality,” or simply “bodies.” She demonstrates that skill categories adjudicate personhood, creating hierarchies that shape working conditions, labor recruitment, migration policy, the design of urban spaces, and the reach of global industries. Iskander also discusses how skill distinctions define industry responses to global warming, with employers recruiting migrants from climate-damaged places at lower wages and exposing these workers to Qatar’s extreme heat. She considers how the dehumanizing politics of skill might be undone through tactical solidarity and creative practices.With implications for immigrant rights and migrant working conditions throughout the world, Does Skill Make Us Human? examines the factors that justify and amplify inequality.Avicenna is the most influential figure in the intellectual history of the Islamic world. This book is the first comprehensive…
study of his theory of science, which profoundly shaped his philosophical method and indirectly influenced philosophers and theologians not only in the Islamic world but also throughout Christian Europe and the medieval Jewish tradition. A sophisticated interpreter of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Avicenna took on the ambitious task of reorganizing Aristotelian philosophy of science into an applicable model of scientific reasoning, striving to identify conditions of certainty for scientific assertions and conditions of adequacy for real definitions. Riccardo Strobino combines philosophical and textual analysis to explore the scope and nature of Avicenna’s contributions to the logic of scientific reasoning in his effort to recalibrate Aristotle’s model and overcome some of its internal limitations. Focusing on a broad array of philosophical innovations at the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, this book casts light on an essential aspect of the thought of the preeminent philosopher and physician of the Islamic world.The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath
By Paige Sweet. 2021
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a "good victim" is no longer enough. Victims must…
also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence were a disease: they must transform from "victims" into "survivors." Women’s access to life-saving resources may even hinge on "good" performances of survivorhood. Through archival and ethnographic research, Paige L. Sweet reveals how trauma discourses and coerced therapy play central roles in women’s lives as they navigate state programs for assistance. Sweet uses an intersectional lens to uncover how "resilience" and "survivorhood" can become coercive and exclusionary forces in women’s lives. With nuance and compassion, The Politics of Surviving wrestles with questions about the gendered nature of the welfare state, the unintended consequences of feminist mobilizations for anti-violence programs, and the women who are left behind by the limited forms of citizenship we offer them.The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: Three Books, Two Cities, One Tale
By Nicholas Wolterstorff, Anton Wessels. 2013
Discussing the Bible and the Qur'an in one breath will surprise some Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But Anton Wessels argues…
that all three traditions must read the Scriptures together and not against each other. As his book title suggests, the three books, in the end, are actually one tale.Wessels accepts Muhammad as a prophet and takes the Qur'an seriously as Holy Scripture along with the Old and New Testaments -- without giving up his own Christian convictions. Respectfully reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an together, he argues, is of crucial importance: our world often sees these religious books as the cause of conflicts rather than the solution to them.Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations, and Interventions
By Marc Riedel, Wayne Welsh. 2016
Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations, and Prevention, Fourth Edition, provides a current, comprehensive, and highly accessible overview of major topics, theories,…
and controversies within the field of criminal violence. Using engaging, straightforward language, Marc Riedel and Wayne Welsh consider diverse theoretical perspectives and present state-of-the-art prevention and intervention methods. In their discussions of various types of violence, the authors employ a consistent and coherent three-part framework that allows students to see the important relationships between research, theory, and application.Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
By Amartya Sen. 2006
The 1998 Nobel Laureate in economics, Sen (Harvard U.) responds to what he calls the appalling effects of the miniaturization…
of people. This happens, he explains, when in order to stop violence, people are reduced to a single identity--for example a moderate Shi'ite or a Hindu nationalist--that authorities believe they can address without considering all the other dimensions of reality each person occupies. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)